Infrastructural Horror: Soaring, Sprawling, Vast

In the 19^th century, a ruin was a landscape for gothic horror. Today, monsters pervade infrastructure. With sprawling limbs and hulking frames made beyond comprehension, towering oil platforms, writhing wires and bottomless mines are omens of contemporary dread. Ill adapted to our faculty of representation, they make us radically vulnerable.
This performance lecture by Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich will present the genre of infrastructural horror. The artists define this new genre as a way to work through the infrastructure of Russian expansion and its inherent monstrosity. Infrastructural horror, developed for their new film Onset, summarises their findings on terror, the sublime and scale.