Feminist politics have long been concerned with the uneven conditions and the inequality effects caused by the often invisibilized gendered dimensions of infrastructures. Access, provision, maintenance, and care are central tenets of feminist infrastructural critique. This symposium investigates infrastructural interdependencies of bodies, materials, and technologies at the sites of contemporary art and curating including the digital realm as well as in urban environments.

The symposium is a collaboration of the PhD seminars of Elke Krasny and Sabeth Buchmann.
Idea: Elke Krasny, curated by: Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg, Claudia Lomoschitz

Programm

3 pm
Welcome and introduction by Elke Krasny and Sabeth Buchmann

3.20–3.40 pm
Verónica Orsi: The Green Scarf: An activist infrastructure for the trans-feminist body in Buenos Aires

3.40–4.00 pm
Carla Bobadilla: The Butterfly House in Vienna: On Decolonizing Infrastructures

4.00–4.30 pm
Miriam Kreuzer: Caring for Urban Infrastructures: A Feminist Critique

Discussion, break

5.00–5.20 pm
Francesca Brusa and Giulia Gabrielli: Unveiling Infrastructures: A Conversation on the Work of Maja Bajevic, Maria Eichhorn, and Wendelien van Oldenborgh

5.20–5.50 pm
Claudia Lomoschitz: Queer Nursing as Infrastructural Critique

Discussion, break

6.30–6.50 pm
Carlota Mir: Collective Labor of Care: Building Feminist Infrastructures in the Post-Dictatorial Spanish State

6.50–7.10 pm
Sophie Lingg: Social Media: Digital Infrastructures and Feminist Art Making

7.10–7.40 pm
Sylvia Sadzinski: (No) Play and Party! Queer Curating as Infrastructural Critique

Discussion, closing remarks

Foto Credits: Verónica Orsi