Symposium What is Infrastructural Critique?
Basics
– Universität für angewandte Kunst WienDescription
A conference in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt
The conference What is Infrastructural Critique? will feature artists, critical theorists and collaborators with Marina, who will come together to think through Marina’s concept of infrastructural critique, a materialist approach to the infrastructures of contemporary art oriented towards aesthetics and political struggle in all of its interconnected modes and scales. Themes of discussion will include: infrastructural critique and ecology, infrastructural critique vs. institutional critique, art and political economy, art and logistics, the politics of abolition in contemporary art, infrastructural critique and music and the relationship of infrastructure to race.
[Quelle: https://web.archive.org/web/20250814055412/https://www.dieangewandte.at/aktuell/aktuell_detail?artikel_id=1752806538424]
Participants
Marwa Arsanios, Sofia Bempeza, Hannah Black, Maria Bussmann, Helmut Draxler, Rose-Anne Gush, Danny Hayward, Annette Krauss, Taylor Le Melle, Mattin, Angela Melitopoulos, Andreas Petrossiants, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Robert Schlicht, Romana Schmalisch, Kerstin Schroedinger, Kerstin Stakemeier, Alberto Toscano, Marina Vishmidt
Objects
(Archival material, Publications)
| 2026 | Intercity (Magazine) |
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| 2025 | Plakat: What is Infrastructural Critique? (Archival object) | |
| 2025 | Information: What is Infrastructural Critique? (Archival object) |
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