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.
Julianne Clifford (AUS)
Tasmania, Australia
I have a doctorate in History and the Creative Arts and write curriculum for Australian senior secondary colleges - whenever possible, I escape to the canvas or the camera. And I travel for inspiration which has taken me to Budapest three times – to attend conferences, to paint, take photography and to reflect.
Current work focusses on the process and the journey. The camera captures images in ways that the eye does not see. It is so immediate and textured. What is revealed is a perspective (as in a vision) not thought of in the mind’s eye. And it is often surprising. Photographic images form the basis for the development of abstract canvasses that capture the essence of something; either a feeling or a context or a time. The current work is ‘Departures’, large canvasses (1.8x1.2m mostly) suggesting a change or departure from the known, being cast into a context that challenges you. The second series, ‘Budapestian’, based on Budapest imagery is so evocative to me; I cannot look at these images without being transported not just to a time and place, but to a sense of being in that moment, an abstract representation of the energy of isolated thoughts. It collects moments like flashing imagery in the corner of your eye as you rush by. It is intended to be immediate, grainy, evocative.
