Endless Study, Infinite Debt: Infrastructural Inequalities

Infrastructural Inequalities Exhibition, Ideas Platform, Artspace, Woolloomooloo, 26 September – 7 October 2018.

Infrastructural Inequalities Public Program, Artspace, Woolloomooloo, 6–7 October 2018.

Infrastructural Inequalities was an exhibition and two-day public program that brought together researchers and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds for collaborative dialogue and exchange around infrastructure – its forms, distributions, and potentials. A joint project between Snack Syndicate and the Housing for Health Incubator, the event was organised around two key themes that intersect and overlap: ‘Living Infrastructures’ which explored pre-invasion infrastructures, architecture and design, bureaucracy, and waste; and ‘Data Infrastructures’ which examined prediction, data collection and curation, logistics, data mining, and surveillance. The event asked: In what ways do infrastructures produce unequal distributions of access to the resources necessary for living? What conceptual, material, and political challenges impede more just distributions? And, how can we respond to and intervene in states of infrastructural inequality?

Infrastructural Inequalities exhibition featured work by the Karrabing Film Collective, Dean Cross and Jack Green that explored the expropriation of land and the networks of bureaucracy that constitute settler-colonial Australia and post-invasion infrastructures.

Works:

Dean Cross, DAMN, 2018, pure pigment print on Australian cotton with wool felt, Round-Up dyed cotton and fish hooks

Dean Cross, DRILLIN’ & PUMPIN’, 2018, pure pigment print on Australian cotton with raw canvas, Round-Up dyed cotton, fish hooks, cotton thread and found photograph

Dean Cross, Wonderful Australia in Pictures, 2018, perfect-bound book, stickers

Karrabing Film Collective, Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams, 2016, single channel video, 29 min.

Jack Green, It’s a Captain Cook Thing, 2017, acrylic on canvas

Jack Green, Yee-haw, Money trucks, 2017, acrylic on canvas

Snack Syndicate, Index, 2018, digital print on card, archive box

Infrastructural Inequalities public program featured contributions from: Fiona Allon, Keg De Souza, Karrabing Film Collective, Kirsty Howey, Monica Monin, Michael Mossman, Lorna Munro, Anna Munster, Joseph Pugliese, Michael Richardson, Joel Sherwood-Spring, Uncle Jimmy Smith, Kynan Tan, Paul Torzillo, Marian Tubbs, and Eve Vincent.