Close Readings
Infrastructure Aesthetics

Solveig Daugaard , Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt and Frederik Tygstrup: Infrastructure Aesthetics

Another month, another iteration of Close Readings, our no-preparation-needed monthly reading group. This autumn, Close Readings is developing a vocabulary of infrastructural critique. Together we work to understand a theoretical framework for the multiple processes, institutions, technologies and networks that form the arena in which we live.

This time we are focusing on the introduction to the newly published anthology Infrastructural Aesthetics (De Gruyter, 2024, pp.1–29). The book addresses the ‘upsurge in artworks negotiating the conditions of their own production, distribution, and reception, which has called attention to the infrastructural relations that shape the art world but have long been understudied’.

You can read the article in advance but do feel very welcome to come unprepared. This is a long but relatively lucid text, from which excerpts will be chosen for us to study together. All levels of engagement and questions are welcome. We want to create a safe and open environment for reflection and learning, even when the reading material is challenging.

The book can be found and downloaded for free here!

Everyone is welcome to join!

Access

The event is spoken in English.

UKS is wheelchair accessible.

We do not have sign language interpretation. Please contact Miriam Wistreich on m.wistreich@uks.no if you require sign language interpretation and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.

 

Image: Fig. 1: Argos centre for visual arts, May 2023. Brussels, BE (De Gruyter, 2024, pp. 133)