As one of the Artistic Directors for 2016 Bergen Assembly, the collective freethought presents its current research interest: Infrastructure.

By looking at many different understandings of this keyword - from legacies of colonial and early capitalist systems of governance to current conditions of the financialization of the cultural field to the subversive possibilities of working with infrastructures as sites of affect and contradiction - Infrastructure emerges as the invisible force of manifest culture today. freethought’s large-scale investigation, culminating in a five-week programme in Bergen in September 2016, will wrest the term away from the language of planners and technocrats to put to creative and critical use within the cultural sphere.

In this event at The Showroom, Irit Rogoff, Stefano Harney, Louis Moreno and Nora Sternfeld of freethought share their research, processes, thoughts and moments of challenge on the way to the Bergen Assembly.