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What is Infrastructural Critique?
Videodokumentation der Konferenz in Gedenken an Marina Vishmidt
What is Infrastructural Critique? © Marija Jančić
12.
März 2026
In October 2025, the conference What is Infrastructural Critique? took
place in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Marina
Vishmidt was professor of Art Theory at the Angewandte.
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?
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
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 Education 
