The London launch party for Marina Vishmidt's long-awaited Infrastructural Critique: Contemporary Art between Reproduction and Abolition. The book encapsulates Marina's modus operandi - nondogmatic, antidisciplinary speculations in what art can be and what negation can create; 'an irreplaceable invitation and guide to the work of abolition'.
Doors 7:30pm
Tickets: SOLD OUT
Join us for the London launch party for Marina Vishmidt's long-awaited Infrastructural Critique: Contemporary Art between Reproduction and Abolition! The book encapsulates Marina's modus operandi - nondogmatic, antidisciplinary speculations in what art can be and what negation can create; 'an irreplaceable invitation and guide to the work of abolition'.
We'll be celebrating the release of the book with a screening of a previously unseen interview with Marina, recorded for TANK magazine in September 2023. After that there'll be readings from the book from its editors, then music, drinks and dancing till closing time. Books will be on sale from the publisher.
Schedule:
1900-2000: arrival
2000-2100: interview screening
2100-2200: DJ sets + drinks
Marina Vishmidt, Infrastructural Critique: Contemporary Art between Reproduction and Abolition https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3413-infrastructural-critique
As we search for a life beyond capital, the dream that galleries and museums can function as a refuge from existing social relations appears less credible by the day. In response, Infrastructural Critique proposes a new materialist counterpraxis. By treating contemporary art institutions as a site of struggle as well as a resource, Marina Vishmidt reanimates critique.
A tour de force of Marxist theory and art criticism – embracing such disparate subjects as Milanese radical feminism, dinosaur documentaries, and the water crises of Flint and Detroit – Infrastructural Critique, edited in the wake of the author’s tragic early death, blends theory and praxis to assess the work of artists such as Cameron Rowland, Dora Budor, and Carolyn Lazard. This volume showcases the light-bending, life-shaping thinking of one of the most playful, politically radical theorists of her era.