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New Publication: Infrastructures of Art Production and Circulation

Anchored in the research agenda of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, a new publication explores the transnational art history of production, transport, and logistics, focusing on the often invisible infrastructures that shape how art is made, circulated, and exhibited across the world.

The volume examines the heterogeneous actors, objects, institutions, and historical processes involved in artistic production and circulation. It moves beyond the artwork as an isolated object and instead foregrounds the complex systems that enable artistic practice in a global context. These infrastructures are deeply embedded in political, economic, and ecological conditions, raising pressing questions about mobility, regulation, and sustainability.

Key themes include the role of logistics and transport systems in shaping artistic production, the impact of customs regimes and border politics on the movement of cultural objects, and the increasing importance of ecological considerations in contemporary art worlds. By tracing material flows and institutional networks, the publication opens new perspectives on how global art systems are organized and governed.

In doing so, the volume makes a significant contribution to the growing field of infrastructure studies in art history, offering new analytical tools for understanding the technical, political, and economic conditions that underpin cultural production in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The book is co-edited by Burcu Dogramaci, Director of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect and Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and Ursula Ströbele, Professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig.

Among the contributors is former postdoctoral researcher Gideon Morison, whose chapter “Star Country Exhibitions: Conceptions, Assemblages, and Event Logistics at Selected Postcolonial Pan-African Festivals (1966–1977)” investigates exhibition-making and event logistics in postcolonial Pan-African festivals.

The publication is available as an e-book.
Download it here.