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.
Mirna Pokorić
Due to the fact that majority of children's toys today literally evoke the world of adults, they also set a model of educational standards replacing the sense of security. Playing is an important method of learning. Furthermore children at an early age lose their right to be creative and to develop their own ideas because they are playing with the toys thatare not suitable for their personal development. Inadequacy of today’s toys is not only visible in functional types, but also in restorative materials of the composition of which toys are made. Modern toys are exclusively made of synthetic materials, not natural.
My goal In this paper is to show some practical ways to use rejected material. For example: Ten (10) objects of different dimensions are usually made from discarded and destructed children's toys. Sculptures are created using the technique of stacking different forms in objects: assemblage. The technical execution is dominated by organic and inorganic materials; plastic, rubber, rag toys, wire, wood and bone. The black (colour) symbolises “destruction” of primal material form of which objects are formed giving them new meaning .
The second part of the work is connected with sculptures. It contains eighty (80) monochrome drawings and collages arranged in a unique compositional unity. Each fragment of a whole ensemble functions as a unique element. Created drawings and collages contains the surface on which are visible images of three dimensional form displaying reflection of individual objects, their texture and relation in space.
In the final analysis, work piece called I. A/0 is incorporated in a certain context and topological space through installation. The installation forms a story that is documented through photographs. Objects and compositional units are set within residential area (AQB), which is still in restoration.
