What happens to digital infrastructure in times of crisis? Does it come under threat, or does it itself become a source of anxiety? What kind of forces act through it, driving massive shifts in landscape, environment, and the body? The technological intervention into the coexistence of humans and nature has long since taken place.
As part of their artistic research for Prater Digital, the collective eeefff is hosting a series of Expert Talks. Their focus is the entanglement of industrial, military, and ecological infrastructures. The series brings together artists, scholars, and thinkers whose work and reflections connect to these concerns thematically or methodologically.
In the first Expert Talk, Anxious Infrastructures, we welcome artist Iryna Loskot alongside artist and author Oleksii Minko. At the heart of the discussion is the body and its relationship to the infrastructures of war. Loskot and Minko turn to specific places where infrastructures do not simply protect and provide but also produce anxiety: because their loss looms, because they are put to military use, because their very proximity can become a danger. In times of crisis and war, dependency, protection, and threat collapse into one another, forming an overlap whose poles are caught in tension.
The conversation asks whether this tension between protection and threat might open a bridge of understanding between human and non-human systems, and in doing so connects to central concerns in eeefff’s practice: non-human perspectives, ecological entanglements, and the material conditions of digital networks.
The event will be held in English. No registration is required. The participation link will be published here.