What is Infrastructural Critique?

The conference What is Infrastructural Critique? – in memory of Marina Vishmidt will feature artists, critical theorists and collaborators with Marina, who will come together to think through her concepts and relate them to their own work and artistic practices. 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 discussion will take place over three days from the evening of 29 to 31 October 2025. 

The event will begin with a talk on the forthcoming book Infrastructural Critique: Contemporary Art Between Reproduction and Abolition, forthcoming with Verso in 2026.

Moderations by: Alexi Kukuljevic, Amanda Holmes, Annette Krauss, Danny Hayward, Jenni Tischer, Nanna Heidenreich, Sofia Bempeza

Overview times of the conference
29.10.2025, 18:00–20:00
30.10.2025, 10:30–18:30
31.10.2025, 10:30–18:30


Hosted by the department Art and Communication Practices, Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education, University of Applied Arts Vienna.