A conference in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt
October 29–31, 2025
Vordere Zollamtstraße 7, 1030 Wien
Auditorium, EG / Ground Floor
The conference What is Infrastructural Critique? will feature artists, critical theorists and collaborators with Marina Vishmidt, who will come together to think through Marina Vishmidt’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.