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
Marina
was Professor of Art Theory at the Angewandte between October 2023 and April 2024.
The event will begin with a
talk on the forthcoming book Infrastructural Critique: Contemporary Art Between Reproduction and Abolition, forthcoming
with Verso in 2026.
Overview times of the conference29.10,
18-20.00
30.10, 10.30-18.30
31.10, 10.30-18.30
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 (title
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, 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.
Registration
Register by 20 October: infrastructural_critique@uni-ak.ac.at
