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.
Marina H. S. Pu
Filmmaker, director, writer, and scholar.
She has been the assistant professor in the Department of Multimedia Design at Takming University of Science and Technology in Taipei, Taiwan since 2014.
Having based in the Taiwan, the UK, Europe, and China since 1999, Marina H. S. Pu obtained a BA degree in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of Arts, and an MA degree in filmmaking from the University of Edinburgh in the UK (2008).
Her films have been selected by and presented in international film festivals in Europe and Taiwan, as well as the BBC.
Her recent projects are ‘Disquiet identity’, developed in Taiwan, Japan, and Europe, and ‘Land of the Gods’, produced in the Indian Himalaya.
Ｈer current creative interest and research are 'feminist theory and film criticism' and 'female issues in East Asia'. Marina's projects involve short fiction films and documentary and dissertation writings. Through this residency at AQB, she would like to focus on dialogues with feminist researchers and artists in Budapest.
She anticipates numerous opportunities to develop crucial philosophical ideas and inspiration in Budapest at AQB art center through this trip, and looks forward to the unique experiences this journey will involve.
