“Gender is in no way a stable identity or locus of agency from which various acts proceed; rather, it is an identity tenuously constituted in time—an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts.” (Butler, 1988, 519)[*] “Performativity cannot be understood outside of a process of iterability, a regularized and constrained repetition of norms. And this repetition is not performed by a subject; this repetition is what enables a subject and constitutes the temporal condition for the subject. This iterability implies that performance’ is not a singular act’ or event, but a ritualized production, a ritual reiterated under and […]
My thesis posits the necessary changes to the field of art if it is to support, articulate and pattern interventions into the operations, conditions and imaginaries of infrastructure. It uses the work of architects Assemble, research agency Forensic Architecture and curatorial project Primer as case studies in a wider field of practices that engage art as a productive part of such interventions. However, where existing discourse in art do not adequately account for how art is used, focuses power, as well as normative models as part of making infrastructure, and where infrastructure studies are limited with respect to the meaning […]
*Thoughts in formation* Here, I'm exploring the cultural patterns, imaginaries and practices of infrastructures; what can be called infrastructural cultures, and which might be posed as infrastructure as culture. Part of a wider research into the problems and possibilities for critical, civic and cultural intervention into broader infrastructural contexts, design, policy and 'publics'. Initiated as part of my AHRC CHASE-funded PhD research at Goldsmiths, University of London: "Changing what infrastructure means" (2024).