Illustration: Stipan Tadić, 'Super Andrija', 2018

aqb Volunteering
Volunteering period will be from March until May of 2022, to help at the upcoming exhibition “Are you sure you want to leave?”, a selection of the OSTRALE Biennale "Breathturn".
APPLICATION
Deadline: February 27, midnight
OPTIONAL TASKS
We would like volunteers to help throughout the exhibition minimum once a week for 5 hours. Volunteering periods are:
• Exhibition installation, preparation between March 1 - 18
• Art mediation, exhibition guarding between March 19 - May 22
REQUIREMENTS
• Conversational level of Hungarian and English
• Having personal interest in cultural and art related projects
COMPENSATION
• We can provide you with the signing of your school / university documents (if required), along with inviting you to gain a basic insight of the content, preparation and outcome of a Budapest-based international contemporary art exhibition.
ABOUT US
Being an independent cultural institution and a centre of contemporary arts, art quarter budapest hosts a wide diversity of programs. The building complex consists of a broad collective of in-house visual and performance artists and gives home to creative industry companies also. Aqb curates local on-site exhibitions and hosts a residency program for various international creators.
Josip Brandis
From traffic signs to other realities The starting point for my artistic actions is a traffic sign, i.e. traffic signs. Using the objects from everyday life and changing them, I consciously introduce them into the process of redefinition. Because of that, their entire being has essentially changed – from signs they have become symbols. I would say that reliance on the tradition of Duchamp's ready-mades have been recognized, but only conditionally. Following the path from maintaining the original mark on a traffic sign, through combining several marks on a single sign surface, and breaking its firm morphological structure, to drilling of abstract and almost ornamental representations, my signs begin to constitute a thick web of meanings. Embracing old and abandoned traffic signs, I refuse to use them in the condition in which I found them, and start to process them in a very self-conscious and artistic way. Change their semantic content and subjecting them to the process of metamorphosis, seemingly simple objects become aesthetic objects that still convey the message, but this time it is the aesthetic message
