“Any manifesto bears a high risk of becoming obsolete when the issues it confronts are resolved by other means or when the manifesto’s ideals are impossible to apply. The “Manifesto for Maintenance Art” is the rare case of an imagined world that is so viable that it became exploited. We have reached its conceptual end only to find ourselves more desperate than Ukeles was at its start. In order to recover, we must read the word she scribbled at the top of the page not as an exhibition proposal, but a political one: Care.”