ABSTRACT
This chapter centers on Displaced Horizons (DH), a project investigating water infrastructures’ socio-cultural complexities. DH is unique in that it takes the form of an adaptable multimedia performance in both artistic and academic settings. Considering the landscape in which art and scholarship combine, the authors center on the often-overlooked infrastructures that make artistic and academic gestures possible, including the economic, aesthetic, and political systems that shape and define these activities. This chapter employs the concepts of infrastructural inversion and infrastructures of resonance as mutually reinforcing ideas that direct attention to systems that produce meaning. In addition to describing DH, this chapter narrates the development of this project to emphasize the structures and power dynamics carried by various infrastructures in the current academic and art worlds. As artistic forms of knowledge production become more focal to science and technology studies, so too will questions about how and why disciplinary bounds are determined.
