Barbara Bloom, Dora Budor, Channels, Park McArthur, Poster Film Collective, Paul Sullivan
Opening 20.09.25
Broadside 5–7pm Wed–Sat 12–6pm until 18.10.25
Ivory Tars 6–8pm Sat–Sun 12–5pm until 26.10.25
Critique is just a cutting tool, not the price of admission. A device for making little breathing holes in the suffocating fabric of reality.
—Marina Vishmidt
This exhibition in two parts—programmed by Broadside and Ivory Tars—engages with Infrastructural Critique, a term coined by the late theorist Marina Vishmidt (1976–2024).
Infrastructural Critique seeks to problematise the limited scope of earlier forms of Institutional Critique, in order to create an immanent space in which the material conditions of contemporary life can be better apprehended and gestured beyond. Whilst not an attempt at a direct explication of Vishmidt’s far-ranging thoughts on the subject—there is no formal style or procedural approach that can be applied to her theories, and they are inimical to any overarching scheme of visual representation—this project acts as a provocation. As a way of articulating a series of operative contradictions around which these theories revolve.