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.
Soundinstallation by Sarvenaz Mostofey
On 28 April, aqb's "Are You Sure You Want To Leave?" exhibition will feature a special sound installation. Iranian artist Sarvenaz Mostofey, based in Berlin, will present her work in the studio of the Spatial Sound Institute.
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Krisztián Kukla, curator of the exhibition, will give a guided tour of the exhibition "Are You Sure You Want To Leave?".
Venue: aqb Project Space
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Presentation of Sarvenaz Mostofey's sound installation.
Venue: Spatial Sound Institute studio
"Neither Aleph, Nor Lam" is a sound artwork that combines different forms of long-distance communication, such as the sounds of woodpeckers and the knocking codes used in prisons. The work is a sonic reflection on the prison diary of an Iranian political activist (the artist's father). On the one hand, the diary contains records of medical assistance in prison, and on the other hand, it contains coded information that serves as a mnemonic and self-healing tool.
The title of the sound installation is derived from the medieval poetry of Rūmī, which is about Aesopian language, a coding of messages without Aleph and Lam, similar to bird communication and the acousmatic sound which is heard without an originating cause being seen.