With the statement, “I had to make this work because it could not be written,” the artist, activist, and writer Kate Millett summarized the driving force behind her installation Terminal Piece. This sentiment serves as the point of departure for the eponymous exhibition and sets the stage for the vision of the upcoming program at mumok.
Like a play, Terminal Piece is divided into several acts, each addressing different forms of perception. Works from the mumok collection are placed in dialogue with newly conceived pieces. Each act is developed around a specific mode of seeing. Across the exhibition, this approach takes shape as an exploration of embodied attention and the encounter between artwork and viewer as an active form of participation.
The prologue to the exhibition, which spans five levels of the museum, is located on the ground floor. It is conceived by the German scenographer and costume designer Anna Viebrock as a stage for art and its viewers.
Terminal Piece will be accompanied by an extensive event program and a publication co-edited with Camilla Wills of Divided Publishing, which will include an existing text by Kate Millett and new writing by Ariana Reines, and other authors.
Curated by Fatima Hellberg and Lukas Flygare
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