In echo with the symposium What is infrastructural critique? happening in Vienna on October 29-31, we will gather here at au JUS on October 30, expanding its space « in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt ».
We’ll spend the morning reading and discussing « Speculative Infrastructures », the unpublished first chapter of Infrastructural Critique, and the afternoon with Taylor Le Melle and Marwa Arsanios’, streaming live from Vienna.
« 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. »
Program at auJUS :
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11am - 1.30pm Collective reading & discussion : Infrastructural Critique: Contemporary Art Between Reproduction and Abolition, forthcoming with Verso in 2026. Chapter 1 : « Speculative Infrastructures »
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2:30pm - 4pm Live streaming panel discussion : Taylor Le Melle and Marwa Arsanios
You are warmly invited to join at any point throughout the day. Send us a message if you would like to participate in the reading group so we know how many copies of the text to print. We’ll have tea, coffee and snacks too.
MORE INFO ABOUT WHAT IS INFRASTRUCTURAL CRITIQUE?
Thanks to Danny Hayward for his support in making this parallel event possible <3