Infrastructure Aesthetics: Concluding Seminar Art as Forum

The New Carlsberg Foundation research centre Art as Forum concludes five years of collective research by passing on findings and recommendations to the local academic and artistic community, to students, as well as to stakeholders and colleagues at the University of Copenhagen. 

Members and associates of the Art as Forum working group will introduce the concept of infrastructure aesthetics, launching a collectively written book with the same name. Through 12 short presentations across three moderated conversations, we will introduce the notion of infrastructure aesthetics as an approach to cultural analysis, aesthetic theory, and critique informed by science and technology studies, media studies, critical anthropology, decolonial theory, and black feminism.

We will ask a series of open questions: Is it meaningful to look at art worlds as infrastructures for commonality? Who has access to the entrances of art worlds? And what does it mean – politically, practically, aesthetically ­– to care more about the composition of collective cohabitation in art worlds than for the artworks themselves?

The three panels will be moderated by Bassam el Baroni (Aalto University), Stefan Jonsson (Linköping University), and Mette-Marie Zacher Sørensen (Aarhus University).

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