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PUBLIC TALK: ‘Infrastructure Aesthetics’ – Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt and Line Ellegaard in conversation with Sarah Lookofsky
In recent years, an increase in artworks negotiating the conditions of their own production, distribution and reception has called attention to the infrastructural relations that shape the art world.
The newly published anthology Infrastructure Aesthetics (De Gruyter, 2024) offers inroads to this field across arts and cultural studies. Based on her work with the anthology, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt will introduce the concept of infrastructure aesthetics – an approach informed by science and technology studies, media studies, critical anthropology, decolonial theory, and Black feminism – which makes the case for upscaling the backgrounds of artworks in order to foreground the collective co-creation of art.
Line Ellegaard will present her research on the 1975 collective feminist project ‘Kvindelige Kunstnere – Før og Nu’ (Women Artists – Past and Present) – with a focus on revealing how infrastructures of access, selection, and (in)attention are shaped by gendered notions and biased criticism. After the two 20-minute presentations, the audience is invited to take part in a 45-minute conversation, moderated by Sarah Lookofsky.
The anthology Infrastructure Aesthetics is published through the research centre Art as Forum – an interdisciplinary and internationally oriented research centre dedicated to research into the relationships between art, communality and social communities at large. The anthology is available online for free: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111349961/html
This event is presented in collaboration between Atelier Kunstnerforbundet and UKS. Read more about the the participants, access and the collaboration between Atelier Kunstnerforbundet and UKS at https://www.uks.no/archive/infrastructure_aesthetics/ and here: https://kunstnerforbundet.no/arrangementer/public-talk-infrastructure-aesthetics
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Keysers gate 1, 0165 Oslo, Norway, Keysers gate 1, 0165 Oslo, Norge,Oslo, Norway
