Kate Millett's Terminal Piece Reinstalled at Mumok, Vienna, Through 7 February

Key facts

• Mumok in Vienna is showing Terminal Piece, an exhibition staged in four 'acts' plus a 'prologue', through 7 February
• The exhibition is organised by Mumok director Fatima Hellberg and chief curator Lukas Flygare around the museum's recent acquisition of Kate Millett's 1972 Terminal Piece
• Millett's Terminal Piece consists of two rows of 46 folding chairs behind bars in a dimly lit room, with one plastic, shop-bought female figure seated in a chair
• The installation is displayed in a blacked-out room lit by movement-sensitive orangey bulbs that dim and intensify as visitors enter
• Jenni Crain presented Kate Millett: Terminal Piece at the Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, as her master's degree thesis exhibition in 2021 and died the same year of complications related to COVID-19
• Millett is best known for Sexual Politics (1970) and The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment (1994), and published The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice in 1979
• Rachel Cusk's recent New Yorker essay describes Millett's turn to art practice as a crisis in language following the 1965 murder of Sylvia Likens
• The exhibition also includes Megan Plunkett's photographs, Miroslav Tichý's street photography from Communist Czechoslovakia, and Nina Porter's Inside Landscapes X-ray images