A performance inspired by and in homage to Mierle Laderman Ukeles and her 1969 Manifesto for Maintenance Art. Ukeles asserts that the artist is also an activist, empowering people to act and change social values and norms. In her manifesto she challenges the privileged and gendered notion of the independent artist and questions the often overlooked hierarchies of different forms of work, particularly housework and low-wage labour. She suggests that the ongoing mundane activities that can take up large parts of our daily lives, often in the service of others, can be seen as art and should be celebrated as such. It is possible to be a mother and artist at the same time. For between one and three hours we sort, fold and stack a mountain of clean laundry while listening to and reading the testimonies of 30 people about the housework that they (don't always) do.