Geopolitics of Infrastructures

Part of Archipelago of Artistic Practices, a Research Summit organised by Jubilee and M HKA. The programme and exhibition are built around Eavatea, a digital infrastructure for mapping research-based and transdisciplinary practices. Archipelago of Artistic Practices take place in conjunction with M HKA’s major exhibition The Geopolitics of Infrastructure and includes the participation of many of its exhibiting artists.

Saturday 14/6/2025, 11-18h

Location: MHKA, 6th floor

Artistic practices today evoke and question the enchanting potential of infrastructure—its symbolic power, political weight, and capacity to shape the human world. These vast networks drive modernisation, ambition, and influence, while also fueling geopolitical tensions, environmental degradation, and displacement.

In this programme, we interrogate human-made and natural infrastructure’s role in statecraft and worldviews, exploring its borderless dynamics and economic implications. A number of the artistic projects included in The Geopolitics of Infrastructure are presented: research-based artistic practices that critique and reimagine infrastructural models, considering how geopolitics shapes both the conditions of artistic work and the possibilities of creative imagination.

 

11h / Short introduction on Archipelago of Artistic Practices, a Research Summit

11:15h / ruangrupa (Mirwan Andan & Iswanto Hartano) in conversation with Vincent Meessen and Nav Haq

12:45h Lunch

13:30h / Shahana Rajani, Pejvak, Assem Hendawi. Conversation moderated by Nav Haq

16:30h / Tekla Aslanishvili, Köken Ergun, Zheng Mahler. Conversation moderated by Nick Axel