Arts and culture | Symposium
Spectral Infrastructure - On Unhoused Music, (Im)Possible Realism, and the Unarchivable
- Date
- Saturday 12 November 2022 - Sunday 13 November 2022
- Location
- BAK, base for art & knowledge
Pauwstraat 13A
Utrecht
Convened by freethought collective. Part of The Hauntologists and Spectral Infrastructure research trajectories.
12–13 November 2022
11.00–18.30 hrs
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
A weekend of presentations, conversations, and listening sessions with freethought, organized in collaboration with Le Guess Who? festival.
With: freethought (Adrian Heathfield, Massimiliano Mollona, Louis Moreno, Irit Rogoff, Nora Sternfeld) and guests James Clifford, DJ Lynnée Denise, Edward George, Paul Rekret, and Dhanveer Singh Brar
How did we come to believe that infrastructures, the beloved components of material progress, sustain us and deliver all that we need? By proposing the notion of a “spectral infrastructure”—a haunting presence within a structural organism—freethought collective puts forward a doubt that what is needed is both knowable and deliverable. Instead, “spectral infrastructure” gestures toward the hidden, unacknowledged textures and registers that dwell in mundane structures, allowing us to inflect the necessary with the desired. In a series of presentations, conversations, and listening sessions, freethought sets out to reveal the spectral within the perceptible by invoking notions of “the unarchivable” and “(im)possible realism”; by navigating “airs” that sustain both resonance and remnants; and by collectively exploring music that “unhouses” the claims to property and individual accumulation—they try and agitate the belief that everything eventually delivers.
Go to Bakonline for the programme.
Tickets:
€10 : regular tickets
€7,50 : <18, students, CJP, and seniors
€0 : solidarity ticket
