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Herzliche Einladung zur Konferenz WHAT IS INFRASTRUCTURAL CRITIQUE? 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.

Anbei das Programm der drei Tagen:

Detailed schedule

Wednesday 29th
18-20.00
Welcome: Sofia Bempeza and Annette Krauss (dep. Art and Communication Practices)
Opening of the conference: Vice Rector Brigitte Felderer
Keynote: Danny Hayward ‘We are here and we are in it’,
moderated by Annette Krauss

Thursday 30th
10.30.-13.30
Welcome: Annette Krauss

Natascha Sadr Haghighian ‘flames to dust’ Figures of Entropy as Anchors of Value
Rose-Anne Gush ‘Figures of Entropy as Anchors of Value’
Helmut Draxler ‘Institution, Infrastructure, or Critique? Reconstructing the lines of conflict’,
moderated by Sofia Bempeza

14.30-16.00
Taylor Le Melle ‘low battery flow’
Marwa Arsanios ‘Reading Marina Vishmidt in Beirut: A conversation that did not happen yet had happened long ago’,
moderated by Nanna Heidenreich

16.30-18.00
Maria Bussmann ‘take a virtual tour: thoughts and images for Marina’
Angela Melitopoulos und Kerstin Schroedinger ‘Being Moved: Infrastructures of Denial’,
moderated by Rose-Anne Gush

Friday 31st
10.30-13.30
Welcome: Sofia Bempeza

Robert Schlicht und Romana Schmalisch ‘Talking the enemy's language’
Hannah Black tbc
Andreas Petrossiants‘Abolition and Creation: The Test Of Infrastructures’,
moderated by Amanda Holmes

14.30-16.00
Kerstin Stakemeier ‘The Popular Front of Disalienation. On Infrastructural Sense/s’
Mattin ‘Noise in the Gaps’,
moderated by Alexi Kukuljevic

16.30-17.15
Alberto Toscano (online) ‘This World We Must End’,
moderated by Danny Hayward

17.15- 19.00
Summary discussion,
moderated by Annette Krauss and Sofia Bempeza

The conference is curated by Danny Hayward and Rose-Anne Gush, and organized by Sofia Bempeza, Rose-Anne Gush, Danny Hayward, Annette Krauss.
Moderations by: Alexi Kukuljevic, Amanda Holmes, Annette Krauss, Danny Hayward, Nanna Heidenreich, Sofia Bempeza
Hosted by the department Art and Communication Practices, Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education, University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Thank you for your generous support!
Student assistants: Meret Caderas, James Elsey, Claudia Florentina Marija Jančić, Valentina Santner, Anna Schoissengeyer, Ronja Wolf,
Technicians and videographers: Fine Freiberg, Tatia Skhirtladze, Thomas Mitterböck, Maximiliam Maitz,
Administration and Facility Management: Martina Dragschnitz, Alexandra Frank, Shirley Thurner,
and the departments of the Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education.

Information: https://www.dieangewandte.at/aktuell/aktuell_detail?artikel_id=1752806538424
Wir freuen uns auf Euer Kommen!
Annette und Sofia





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