Rosamond, Emily. 2025. 'Performing Infrastructure'. In: Archipelago of Artistic Practices. A Jubilee and M HKA Research Summit. Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA), Antwerp, Belgium 14 - 21 June, 2025. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Keynote lecture for Archipelago of Artistic Practices, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, 21 June, 2025

How do infrastructures consolidate power relations? How might counter-hegemonic infrastructures undergird resource distributions, relations, and collective actions in new ways – and what forms of thinking might support these pursuits? This lecture explores both the violence of infrastructure (when used as a tool for settler colonialism, resource extraction, and corporate domination) and its emancipatory potentials as a locus for activism and reactivation. It posits ‘performing infrastructure’ as a framework for thinking about infrastructure – as something that must ‘perform,’ and that is, in part, comprised of human actions – that foregrounds its participatory nature, and therefore brings its problems and potentials as a political tool into focus.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Keynote)
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Visual Cultures
Dates:	Date Event January 2025 Accepted 21 June 2025 Completed
Event Location:	Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA), Antwerp, Belgium
Date range:	14 - 21 June, 2025
Item ID:	39058
Date Deposited:	23 Jun 2025 15:53
Last Modified:	23 Jun 2025 15:53
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39058

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