[1] The piece was interactive, as "visitors ... are invited to throw crumbs at an Ivanka lookalike performer who's cordoned off in a separate, pink carpeted area, as she repeatedly vacuums—in heels, no less—every night for two live-streamed hours".
Rubell stated the piece was "inspired by a figure whose public persona incorporates an almost comically wide range of feminine identities: daughter, wife, mother, sister, model, working woman, blonde".
[6] Hyperallergic stated, "It's hard to say what is most disorienting about the interactive performance piece... the schadenfreude it instigates, the somewhat anachronistic feminist button-mashing, or the ridiculous notion that Ivanka Trump has ever used a vacuum cleaner in her entire life".
The obvious symbolism that the color pink and a vacuum equals women, for example, prompts derision, not intellectual curiosity.
"[8] The Atlantic stated "while Ivanka Vacuuming appears to be making a case about complicity by incorporating the viewer, the message is muddled".