WHAT IS INFRASTRUCTURAL CRITIQUE? Thursday 30th 2025 Panel 1

Описание: DAY 2
Thursday 30th 2025

Panel 01
Natascha Sadr Haghighian ‘flames to dust’
Rose-Anne Gush ‘Figures of Entropy as Anchors of Value’
Helmut Draxler ‘Institution, Infrastructure, or Critique? Reconstructing the lines of conflict’
Panel discussion moderated by Sofia Bempeza

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.

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

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:
Photo-Documentation: Marija Jančić
Video-Editor: Fine Freiberg
Videographers & Technicians: Fine Freiberg, Tatia Skhirtladze, Thomas Mitterböck, Maximiliam Maitz
Student assistants: Meret Caderas, James Elsey, Claudia Florentina Marija Jančić, Edo Katavic, Valentina Santner, Anna Schoissengeyer, Ronja Wolf
Administration, Facility, and Event Management: all contributing colleagues, and especially Martina Dragschitz, Alexandra Frank, Shirley Thurner
and the colleagues at the departments of the Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education.