Veranstaltungshinweis: Park McARTHUR. Contact M Buchpräsentation, Workshop, Performance (mumok)

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Park McArthur. Contact M, the eponymous artist’s book will be presented on June 13 at 4 pm. The launch will be followed by a workshop in cooperation with the Department of Art History of the University of Vienna. The workshop will explore the specifics of Park McArthur’s artistic practice against the background of various interests and questions in the form of short lectures, statements and panel discussions. Afterward, at 7 pm, we will be presenting a sound performance by domingo castillo flores.

Workshop and Book Launch
The workshop will feature contributions by Sabeth Buchmann, Sebastian Egenhofer, Anita Hosseini, Stefanie Kitzberger, Barbara Reisinger, Friederike Sigler, and Jenni Tischer, and will make visible the specifics of Park McArthur’s work in the area of current art that is critical of institutions. What characterizes McArthur’s work—methodologically, aesthetically, politically—from the participants’ perspective? What can we learn from her practice? Toggling between input and open discussions, the workshop will reference the current exhibition throughout.

The artist’s book Park McArthur. Contact M contains works and essays by Park McArthur and Geelia Ronkina, numerous color illustrations, and a comprehensive appendix with a list of works and further reading. The bilingual book (English and German) has 216 pages and is published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.

In addition to the spaces at mumok and Museum Abteiberg, the audio guide, and the exhibition’s online presence, the publication of Contact M constitutes a fifth space that expands the exhibition’s reach. It contains additional works that cannot be viewed in Vienna or Mönchengladbach and provides a comprehensive overview of Park McArthur’s work since the early 2010s. This space of the publication also includes Park McArthur’s photographic works as well as photographic reproductions she commissioned of the installations at mumok and Museum Abteiberg, illustrating the unique spatialities and presentational forms inherent to each location.

Start: 4 pm
For participation in the workshop and book launch, a valid admission ticket or an annual pass is required.
No registration is necessary. Seats will be allocated on site according to capacity.

Sound Performance
domingo castillo flores: Contact M (Version)

“The world’s poetic force (its energy), kept alive within us, fastens itself by fleeting, delicate shivers, onto the rambling prescience of poetry in the depths of our being. The active violence in reality distracts us from knowing it. Our obligation to ‘grasp’ violence, and often fight it, estranges us from such live intensity, as it also freezes the shiver and disrupts prescience. But this force never runs dry because it is its own turbulence.” (Édouard Glissant, 159)

The ongoing dialogue between castillo flores and McArthur began years ago with a shared, yet unfinished, reading of Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation. Today, their collaboration persists across time zones and life circumstances—a friendship rarely anchored in one place. This spring, they worked collectively to remotely install Contact M’s artworks in Mönchengladbach and Vienna.

Drawing from McArthur’s sonic practice, castillo flores will present:
Contact M (Version)

Music’s materiality—as a gathering space, a convergence of frequencies, and a dispersed mode of shared experience—shapes the exhibition form explored in Contact M. Here, McArthur’s exhibition briefly intertwines with castillo flores’s practice, venturing into sonics together.

Start: 7 pm
As the performance takes place outside regular opening hours, a free online registration is required. The booking module can be found at the bottom of mumok website.

domingo castillo flores ist Musiker und Künstler im Ruhestand, der gerne kollaborativ arbeitet. 2010 rief er zusammen mit Patricia Margarita Hernández in Miami, Florida, das von Künstler*innen geleitete und gemeinsam mit Kathryn Marks und Cristina Farah produzierte pädagogische und nomadische Projekt the end / SPRING BREAK ins Leben. 2013 gründete er mit Loriel Beltran und Aramis Gutierrez die Galerie Noguchi Breton (F.K.A. GUCCIVUITTON sowie Versace Versace Versace) und startete 2016, ebenfalls zusammen mit Patricia Margarita Hernández sowie Natalia Zuluaga, den transdisziplinären Thinktank Public Displays of Professionalism (PDP).

Park McArthur wurde 1984 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, geboren. Sie studierte Kunst und Chinesisch am Davidson College, North Carolina, Bildhauerei im MFA-Programm der University of Miami, Florida, nahm am Whitney Independent Study Program teil und besuchte die Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. McArthur hat bislang bei The New School for Social Research, New York, am Abrons Art Center, New York, an der Rutgers University, New Jersey, sowie an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg unterrichtet. Sie hatte Einzelausstellungen an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, bei Paid, Seattle, Washington, beide 2023, in der Kunsthalle Bern, 2020, bei Maxwell Graham, New York, 2013, 2014 sowie 2020, im Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018, dem San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kalifornien, 2017, der Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2016, bei Lars Friedrich, Berlin, 2014, zusammen mit Alex Fleming bei Yale Union, Portland, Oregon, 2014, sowie in der Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brüssel, 2013. McArthur war an der 2021 Oxygen Biennial in Tiflis beteiligt, sowie der 57. Ausgabe von Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2018, an der 78. Whitney Biennial, New York, 2017, der 32. Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2016, sowie an der vierten Ausgabe von Greater New York, MoMA PS 1, Queens, New York, 2015.