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AG2025_2100255c or don’t you see

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“I love ya! I love ya all. Don’t act like that. You women. Stop it. Don’t act like that. Don’t you see I love ya? I’d die for ya, kill for ya. I’m saying I love ya. I’m telling ya. Oh, God have mercy. What I’m gonna do? What in this fuckin world am I gonna dooooo?” (TM)

Fragments d’histoire ou Hier et aujourd’hui : à la faveur d’une promenade dans les rues et aux environs de Fort-de-France. Baude, Théodore, 1866-1949. 1940. WikiSource. Manioc.

« Chaque pas sur un pont, sur une place rappelle un grand passé. À chaque coin de rue s’est déroulé un fragment de l’histoire ».

GŒTHE

Baude, le premier Martiniquais à recevoir, à titre civil, la cravate de commandeur de la légion d’honneur. 1940 (during the Vichy regime?).

A mooring

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she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was life and not a dream.

Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

Also, JV acquired …

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Untitled (At the still point of mottled formations and a scruple of compassion) viii

the right flower for

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What’s the right flower for the ignored-

with-good-reason, the uninvited? A hydrangea,
head wide as a cabbage; or the bull thistle
wild along the roads; or a dandelion

Etiquette, Judson Mitcham

The Department of Homeland Security said on Friday that it would revoke the temporary legal status of more than 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans welcomed into the US under a Biden-era sponsorship process, according to a notice posted to the Federal Register and signed by the homeland security chief Kristi Noem.

The order cuts short a two-year “parole” program – known as CHNV – under Joe Biden that allowed 532,000 people who had arrived in the US since October 2022 with financial sponsors to obtain two-year work permits to live and work in the US. Noem’s notice said they will lose their legal status on 24 April.

The Guardian, 032125

orchids and boutonnieres

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AG2021_2040444a or Untitled (Orchids and Boutonnieres–Charles Avenue) ii, 2009-2021. 30 x 22 inches. Colored pencil, graphite, ink, gouache, acrylic, enamel paint, collage, and solvent transfer on paper.

Come out, come close.
Why hide? Why deceive?

You are me and I am you.
Why get mired in me’s and you’s?

We are light upon light—
and the glass light passes through. 

Why muddy ourselves with a grudge?

Together, we are whole and complete.

[…]

There’s one spirit in countless bodies,
one oil in countless almonds,
one meaning in countless words 
uttered by countless tongues. 

Shatter the jugs. The water is one.

Steeped in union, the heart remembers 
a world beyond words.

Come out, come close., Jalal al-Din Rumi

Adrift, underground, invisible

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Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man (1953, Signet Double Volume #D1030, cover art by James Avati)
Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man (1953, Signet Double Volume #D1030, cover art by James Avati)

Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison: How a Man ‘Becomes Invisible’, John Edwin Mason, TIME, 2016.

““A Man Becomes Invisible,” which appeared in LIFE on Aug. 25, 1952, Parks interpreted Ellison’s recently published novel, Invisible Man, through images that were by turns surreal and nightmarish.”

Art Institute of Chicago, May 20–Aug 28, 2016.

Park McArthur. Contact M

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The exhibition Park McArthur. Contact M brings together, for the first time, artworks made between the 2010s and 2020s. These artworks and the forms they take are guided by personal and social meanings of disability, delay, and dependency.

Co-organized by mumok in Vienna and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, the exhibition is a collaboration between both institutions and will be presented simultaneously at both locations. Questions of simultaneous experience and access to art and culture shape this project’s format and purpose.

Curated by Matthias Michalka, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien and Susanne Titz and Alke Heykes, Museum Abteiberg, Möchengladbach.

March 15, to September 7, 2025.

This audio guide is an artwork. This audio guide is an exhibition. It is titled
Contact M and contains artworks made in the 2010s and 2020s by Park McArthur.
Contact M was recorded in German and English.
Some artworks are only exhibited here, in this audio guide. Some artworks
were on view from March to September, 2025 at the Museum Abteiberg in
Mönchengladbach, Germany and mumok in Vienna, Austria. Reading or listening
to Contact M keeps it open as an exhibition.

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