‘infrastructure’

What are the infrastructures behind the trade and transfer of artworks? On 26-28 June, KEMKI will organize a workshop on these often invisible infrastructures in cooperation with the University of Amsterdam and the Leuphana University (Germany). With more than 20 speakers from three continents, the three days of the workshop aim to reveal those institutions and networks and lay behind the commercial and …

… shaped by industrialisation, urbanisation, changing conditions of work and leisure, developing infrastructure, housing shortages and emerging platforms of the public sphere. We invite researchers who explore this interaction between artistic production, emigration and the urban space from aspects including but not limited to: the impact of artists’ access to typical or atypical sources of funding on their artistic production abroad emigration as export/import of cultural and …

… the actors, places, rules, and structures of this system. This workshop aims to explore the infrastructures through which artworks have been produced and exchanged for goods, money, services, and reputation since 1900. Our focus is not only on the dominant and well-known structures of the art market but also on alternative practices in specific times and places and under various regimes. Proposals may relate but are not limited to the following topics and can present arguments based of …