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Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetic, and Critique is an exhibition, publication, and educational project, collaboratively organized and hosted by the Academies of Fine Arts in Vienna and in Leipzig. This Vienna conference foregrounds infrastructure in the fields of art and education, specifically practices that reflect their infrastructural conditions through methods and topics of display and mediation. Infrastructures are material phenomena and physical networks, immaterial relations and symbolic actions, which, in visible and invisible ways, form our present and, hence, our horizon of aesthetic perception. The interplay of material and ideological conditions of production and presentation directs the (institution-critical) gaze onto nodal points of real and symbolic orders, places, and economies.

Initiated in Leipzig in 2021 with a lecture series and an exhibition, the conference continues this discursive engagement and, in Vienna, is complemented by the exhibition Conditions and Frameworks in the Academy’s Exhibit galleries. A publication bringing together contributions by the lecture and conference participants is forthcoming in the fall of 2022.

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