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.
Liquid Bodies
July 28, 2018
Fotók/Photos: Aron Weber
Liquid Bodies @ aqb Project Space
Artists:
Radek Brousil (1980)
Valentýna Janů (1994)
Martin Kohout (1984)
Pavel Příkaský (1985)
Marie Tučková (1994)
Adam Vačkář (1979)
The exhibition is based on the social and critical theory of Zygmunt Bauman (1925 - 2017) that speaks about ‚Liquid Modernity‘ in the book with the same title published in 2000 in Cambridge. Liquid modernity is a consequence of globalization. Bauman examines how we have moved away from hardware-focused modernity to a liquid software-based modernity that caused profound changes in to all aspects of the human condition. The instantaneous time of the software world is immediate but also leads to exhaustion and fading interest. If solid modernity posited eternal duration as the main motive ‚Fluidity‘ is the metaphor for the present stage of the era.
Czech artists presented at aqb Project Space, Budapest are dealing with the topic of consuming life with its consequences. Adam Vačkář and Radek Brousil are reflecting changes in ecology, recyclation, an unscrupulous behavior of mankind. Vačkář works with (Still Life / Nature Morte, 2013) and this ‚vanitas’ as a memento for the planet. Consumers are originally looking for more experiences rather then things wrote Bauman in his predictive book ‘Globalisation: The Human Consequences’ (New York, 1998).
Curated by SANDRA BABOROVSKA (art historian, curator at Prague City Gallery)
Opening:28 July, Saturday 2018 - 18.00
Date: 28 July – 2 September 2018
