What Is Infrastructural Critique?
A conference in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt (1976-2024)
Weds 29 (evening) - Fri 31 October, 2025

‘the term infrastructural critique articulates this question of scale and immanence, with infrastructural, rather than institutional, only to the extent that the institution is not affirmed in the critique of it, and infrastructure has a materiality that can’t be confined to the institution’ – Marina Vishmidt

With talks and presentations by:

Marwa Arsanios
Hannah Black
Maria Bussmann
Helmut Draxler
Rose-Anne Gush
Danny Hayward
Angela Melitopoulos + Kerstin Schroedinger
Taylor Le Melle
Mattin
Andreas Petrossiants
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Robert Schlicht + Romana Schmalisch
Kerstin Stakemeier
Alberto Toscano

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Hosted by the department Art and Communication Practices, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

Auditorium, University of Applied Arts
EG / Ground Floor
Vordere Zollamtstrasse 7, Wien 1030

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To help us spread the word about the conference, and introduce Marina Vishmidt’s work to the students, we'd be delighted if you’d discuss a text by Marina Vishmidt in class.
E.g. recently published: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/155/675808/infrastructural-critique-between-reproduction-and-abolition



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