The publication Visible upon Breakdown: Exploring the cultural, political and spatial nature of infrastructure, depicts the hypermodern world where inhabitants don’t pay much notice to the currents and structures that make up our lives. These are invisible – hidden in plain sight – until the moment of collapse.

By a transdisciplinary discussion across photography, social science, and architecture, Visible upon Breakdown questions the cultural, political and spatial nature of infrastructure. It investigates the relationship between the tangible physical components of railroads, water supply or communication systems on the one hand and their intrinsic political and social values on the other.

Via a live two-channel projection, Isabel Seiffert presented the initiative for the project as well as its turbulent production process (incl. a blizzard).

Visible upon Breakdown is designed by Offshore (Isabel Seiffert and Christoph Miler), co-edited with Justinien Tribillon and published by Spector Books.