Join us for the presentation of the Feminist Infrastructural Critique: Life-Affirming Practices against CapitaI thematic journal and discussion around the text "Infrastructures under Pressure".

The co-editor, Elke Krasny will introduce the notion of feminist infrastructural critique and the thematic issue of the FKW Journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture, which foregrounds that use, maintenance, and repair are key to resisting infrastructural violence and injustice.

Members of the EoC group will present their cases of "infrastructures under pressure" as part of the joint text “Infrastructures Under Pressure: Practicing with Sites of Struggle”. Working in different sites across the territories of Europe, short contributions offer explanations of the specificity of infrastructures under pressure in their local contexts, as well as of the curatorial and artistic practices used to develop long-term transformations of these infrastructures through use, care, and new aesthetic and ethical imaginaries. Life-affirming practices against capital emerge from critical curatorial and art-based practices that stay with their sites for a long time, sometimes for more than a decade, as they counteract infrastructural violence and work on new practices of care and repair.

The thematic issue – free for download – is available on this link.