The light gains edges and limbs; folds and opens.
Nobody has limitlessness
a universe of collision and drift
SH
AG2024_1123094a or limitedness
Adrift, underground, invisible
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
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
01_Contact_M_EN.mp3
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.
AG2025_1540969a or witnessing of all that is well
this soft, open witnessing of all that is well
The hand of politics is so visible from their vantage point that they don’t know how they could have missed it at first. It’s utterly manifest in every detail of the view
a planet contoured and landscaped by want
Samantha Harvey
might be allowed
“The draft proposal also included an “orange” list of 10 countries for which travel would be restricted but not cut off. In those cases, affluent business travelers might be allowed to enter, but not people traveling on immigrant or tourist visas.
Citizens on that list would also be subjected to mandatory in-person interviews in order to receive a visa. It included Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Turkmenistan.” nytimes.
It’s all I have to bring today—
This, and my heart beside—
This, and my heart, and all the fields—
And all the meadows wide—
Be sure you count—should I forget
Some one the sum could tell—
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.
It’s not nothing
It’s not peripheral and it’s not the centre; it’s not everything and it’s not nothing
Orbital, Samantha Harvey
a dirge a lamentation or AG2022_2030921a2
earth works
thick brown mud
clinging pulling
a body down
hear wounded earth cry
bequeath to me
the hoe the hope
ancestral rights
to turn the ground over
to shovel and sift
until history
rewritten resurrected
returns to its rightful owners
a past to claim
yet another stone lifted to
throw against the enemy
making way for new endings
random seeds
spreading over the hillside
wild roses
come by fierce wind and hard rain
unleashed furies
here in this untouched wood
a dirge a lamentation
for earth to live again
earth that is all at once a grave
a resting place a bed of new beginnings
avalanche of splendor
4., bell hooks. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place
