Changing What Infrastructure Means What are 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? Can the work of architects Assemble, research agency Forensic Architecture and curatorial project Primer offer case studies in a wider field of practices that engage art as a productive part of such interventions? 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 created by art, my PhD thesis develops a new discursive and conceptual framework to bridge these gaps and problematise the links established by an infrastructural framing.

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About

Tom Clark is a curator and writer. He teaches and has worked on curatorial and publishing projects internationally. He is currently an AHRC/CHASE-Funded PhD Candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, where his research explores infrastructural figures, politics and imaginaries as they relate to the institutions of art. He has been editor at BAK, basis for actuelle kunst, Utrecht (2015–2017); co-director at Arcadia Missa gallery, London (2010–2015); was contributing editor to Para\Fictions – Ed. Natasha Hoare (Rotterdam: Witte de With, 2018) and Maria Hlavajova and

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