When I drink a cup of coffee, the caffeine contained in it starts to circulate through my body, as do the molecules of water, only to be processed and diluted again. Something from outside my body gets in and out again, showing how the very distinction between inside and outside is provisional. A more precise approximation of what happens between ourselves and the environment would be to admit that we have infrastructures (digestive, vascular, or nervous systems, but also emotionality or knowledge) that function as complex intermediary systems between ourselves and our environment.

Similarly, we ourselves (as humans, bodies, inhabitants, etc.) are part of other, larger infrastructures (such as transportation networks, urban sewage systems, nation states, or entire cultures). This experience of being both embedded in and composed of interlinked networks might be one of the most valuable experiences we derive from our activities online. YouTube, iCloud, Spotify, Telegram, Discord, or Anna’s Archive — which we usually call platforms — are such models of infrastructure. They create complex spaces for consumption, production, interaction, cohabitation, or even reflection.

Exhibited artists: Hynek Alt (CZ), Nikola Balberčáková (SK), Mark Cinkevich (BLR) & Anna Engelhardt (UK/RU), Cécile B. Evans (BE/US), Daniel Felstead (UK) & Jenn Leung (HK), Zeynep Gönen (TR), Angus Hamilton James & Finley Highton (UK), Eliška Konečná (CZ), Jakub Krejčí (CZ), Dmitrii Ostretsov (CZ/RU), Mikuláš Rett (CZ), Selmeci Kocka Jusko (SK), Total Refusal (AT), Alice Ullsperger (CZ), Dušan Zahoranský (CZ/SK)

Curator: Václav Janoščík