Title & Author:

Between the material and the possible : infrastructural re-examination and speculation in art / edited by Bassam El Baroni.

Publication:

London : Sternberg Press ; Oldenburg : Edith-Russ-Haus, [2022]
©2022

Description:

307 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Deep learning infrastructural critique / Ilan Manouach (comic) and Marina Vishmidt (text) -- Introduction : infrapolitics after infrastructure space / Bassam El Baroni -- Infrastructure as diagrammatic disposition : Fareed Armaly's From/To (1999/2002) revisited / Sabeth Buchmann -- Infrastructure, ideology, hegemony / Matthew Poole -- Vapid virtues, real stakes : diagnosis for Left art protocols / Ghalya Saadawi -- Disarticulating infrastructures : toward touchstones for infrastructural inquiries / Nishant Shah -- Redistributions / Tirdad Zolghadr -- The currency of contemporary art / João Enxuto and Erica Love -- Mystical habitats : art after Earth and outer-space settlements / Bogna Konior -- What can the arts sector learn from structural diversification of science and technology development? A conversation diakron (David Hilmer Rex and Aslak Aamot Helm) with Adam Marblestone -- Point and pivot / Natalia Zuluaga -- A modest proposal for preventing artists from becoming a burden to society, and making finance beneficial to both artists and the public / Vermeir & Heiremans -- From the automation of relations to the amplification of communities : the rise of DAOs / Aude Launay -- Affordances : degrees of freedom wrested from phantom narratives / Nancy Adajania -- Abstraction, abjection, affectivity : ontological horizons of contemporary art / Václav Janos̆c̆ik -- Cybernetic pasts, financial futures : the calculation of the unknown / Bahar Noorizadeh -- How to break free from the ghosts of the future? / Cassandra Collective (Laura Cugusi, Chiara Di Leone, and Anastasiia Noga) -- Architecture is obsolete : financialization nostalgia and real estate power / Adham Selim -- Restaging infrastructural images that make the world : reconfiguring scale / Tom Clark.

Summary:

"Over the past decade, a growing number of artists, theorists, curators, and researchers have moved from institutional critique to infrastructural critique, or infrastructural speculation, in which they explore the potential of creative visions and scenarios. In attempts to counter various impasses, art has immersed itself in systemic critiques and propositional thinking, addressing major challenges such as the rampant financialization of the economy and runaway climate change. From questions around space settlements to the possibility of repurposing blockchain and financial instruments for redistributive purposes, from the diagrammatic potential of infrastructural thinking in artistic practices to scenario planning and economic strategizing, this collection of new essays brings together critical analysis from a broad group of contributors. Their interrogations span local and global relationalities, historical and political legacies, as well as future-oriented infrastructural hypotheses."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9783956796005 paperback
3956796004 paperback

Subject:

Art and society.
Infrastructure (Economics) Social aspects.
Art et société.

Added entries:

El Baroni, Bassam, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315989
Call No.: 315989
Copy: 1
Status: Available