The conference
featured artists, critical theorists and collaborators with Marina, who came together to think through her 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.
The full video documentation is now available on YouTube: Playlist What is Infrastructural Critique?
A publication on the conference is due in June 2026.
Themes of discussion included: 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
Please find the handout here:
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The conference was 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,
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 EducationGraphic Design: Rosen
Eveleigh
Photo-Documentation: Marija Jančić
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the event page 
