Infrastructure Aesthetics

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Infrastructure Aesthetics

Edited by: Solveig Daugaard , Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt and Frederik Tygstrup

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 9 | Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC)

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An upsurge in artworks negotiating the conditions of their own production, distribution, and reception has called attention to the infrastructural relations that shape the art world but have long been understudied. In response, this book introduces the concept of infrastructure aesthetics into the study of culture.

The concept is drawn from infrastructure studies, media theory, and aesthetic theory. This volume develops it further, addressing:

the analytical challenge of working with works that blur the boundaries between art and infrastructure, both historically and in the present,

the aesthetic problem of assessing artistic forms that operate on an infrastructural level, and

the politics of artistic agency on a social level, beyond the work's content or message.

As the relation between artworks and their institutional and social settings becomes infrastructural in nature, we need to move beyond the reductive division of the study of artworks into production, articulation, and reception. This book provides its readers with an innovative conceptual toolbox designed for precisely this task, as well as a forceful set of exemplary case studies applying the concepts in theory and practice.

Author / Editor information

Solveig Daugaard, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Frederik Tygstrup, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Introduction: Surfacing Infrastructures in the Arts Solveig Daugaard, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt and Frederik Tygstrup Open Access Download PDF	1
Part One Art: Inversion, Invention, Intervention
Investigation, Inversion, Intervention: “Women Artists – Past and Present” by Hellen Lassen, Hanne Lise Thomsen and Else Kallesøe Line Ellegaard Open Access Download PDF	33
Solo, Transparent, Responsible? Artist Collectives’ Inversion of Eurocentric Infrastructures at Documenta Fifteen Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt Open Access Download PDF	57
Practicing a Black Women’s International. Infrastructures of a Black, Left, Feminist Sensibility Emma Sofie Brogaard Open Access Download PDF	79
The Monument as Relation Model: Examining the Material and Cultural Infrastructure of Sculptural Monuments Amalie Skovmøller and Mathias Danbolt Open Access Download PDF	101
Collaborating with Film and TV-Producer Jef Cornelis: Notes on Infrastructural Forms of the Image and Image Practices Eva la Cour Open Access Download PDF	133
A Video Store After the End of the World: Material Speculation & Media Infrastructures Beyond the Cloud Kristoffer Gansing and Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter Open Access Download PDF	151
Part Two Aesthetics: Organization, Mediation, Relation
A Crisis of Autonomy. Critique of Art and Sexuality in 1974 Frida Sandström Open Access Download PDF	173
Critical Zone(s) Observatories: Modelling Infrastructures of Climate Science in the Art Museum Daniel Irrgang Open Access Download PDF	195
The Intratemporal Work of Art Tanya Ravn Ag Open Access Download PDF	223
Art as Reflective Infrastructure Mathias Overgaard Open Access Download PDF	237
Aesthetic Appearance: An Infrastructural Perspective Frederik Tygstrup Open Access Download PDF	259
Part Three Politics: Institution, Reproduction, Support
Poetry as Infrastructural Switch: Yahya Hassan and the Politics of the Danish Literary Circuit Solveig Daugaard Open Access Download PDF	281
Gendered Infrastructures of the Danish Music Industry: From Disorientation to Feminist Collective Capacity Kristine Ringsager and Katrine Wallevik Open Access Download PDF	311
Brown Island Floating in a White Sea: On Affective Infrastructures Anna Meera Gaonkar Open Access Download PDF	337
Institutional and Infrastructural Frictions: The Case of Group-Think – An Art, Sport, and Protest Project with Youth Stine Marie Jacobsen and Joana Monbaron Open Access Download PDF	355
TOVES: THE SALE. Towards an Infrastructural Model for Hosting at the Art Museum Rasmus Holmboe Open Access Download PDF	371
Infrastructural Orientations in the Exhibition Xenia Brown Pallesen Open Access Download PDF	389
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	405
Index Open Access Download PDF	411

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eBook published on:

November 4, 2024

eBook ISBN:

9783111349961

Hardcover published on:

November 4, 2024

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111349831

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Front matter:

7

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418

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15

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111349961

eBook ISBN: 9783111349961

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111349831

Keywords for this book

Contemporary art; post-digital art; art institutions; distributed agency

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Scholars of cultural studies, art history, performance studies, critical race studies, aesthetic theory, media studies

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