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.
Timo Herbst
My artworks and projects are focused on the choreography of artistic, physical and political related movements as well as their meanings and consequences in the private and public sphere. Therefore I use mainly drawings and videos as two different media tools to research time, space and motion.
My methods include the reconstruction of processes: I draw the movement of a definite object or body part – a hand, a conductor´s baton – as if it was moving in a stream of motion across the paper sheet. The drawings look like storyboards, but due to the complexity of the movements, the process depicted is not completely ascertainable. I am interested in the indeterminacy and illegibility adhering to all types of images, or better said, in the indistinctness of our perceptions. Therefore I also work with videography and performance to relate the gesture back and play with the given contexts. The boundaries that distinguish two spaces and the intersections where those spaces overlap are especially important to me because the ambiguity of signs and gestures reveals itself most acutely at these points. The resulting ambivalences and contradictions that are characteristic of gestures have become an important theme to me, because in my opinion the most significant questions of human society possess a core complexity and ambiguity. I believe dealing with such questions is a productive activity, although the uncertainties and contradictions they pose cannot and should not ever be resolved completely. One fundamental question might be: How do I create a way of living that feels secure and at the same time permits constant change, that is capable of transforming itself, a life that can be fragile, impermanent and therefore alterable. Having self-discipline, maintaining strong convictions, and yet encouraging one’s own ability to grow and change are often at odds with one another. I consider my artwork as sensual forms of these processes.
My inspirations are the various forms of social and political practice, which I draw, perform and work on with others.
