Exhibit Studio 2024 Autumn

Deadline: Friday, Jul 12, 2024, 11:00am

The Exhibit Studio of the Academy is an exhibition space to showcase student works and it is run by a different team of student coordinators each year. Called a studio, we understand the space as a room for experimentation, trials and errors, unseasoned ideas and – above all – as a room to get in touch and to see how our works and thoughts interact.

This year, Juan Rodrigo Torres Plata and Jennifer Posny are curating and coordinating three exhibitions exploring different dimensions of communication: How do we interact?

In our first show All You Have Is Not Just Flesh and Bones, we examined our bodies as (mis-) carriers of information, meaning and experiences. Let’s take a step further into this speculation and inquire how the spaces we oscillate in, and the times we gravitate through condition our rational, emotional and sensory means and cultures of expression.

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What if where we are was not defined by hard and fast borders but by a healthy and elastic set of boundaries? Imagine the world not as a vast space in which we are settled, but as an unending, shape-shifting, dense conglomerate of a-/di- ssociations between fluids, bodies, emotions, ideas.

Our second exhibition studies the claim that space does not necessarily exist, physically, and proposes to look at the world (and beyond) through the lens of its inhabitants and their interconnections. As the universe is (possibly) endless, why not shift our focus from the desperate attempt to oversee it from the outside, to seeking for a compositional and operational understanding from its inside?

Similarly, whenever humans decided to measure time, we investigated the relation between a moving entity and its surroundings: a pendulum swinging above ground, a heart’s attuned moto, the regular oscillation of a quartz crystal. Time, as well, might not exist on an objective scale but as a mere tool for describing individual variations within a particular constellation.

In the third exhibition we therefore would like to inquire what is present for you personally. How does the time you live inde-/con- fine the way you see the world and your contemporaries? How can the net we build today become a mold for the constellations of tomorrow?

How could this present be understood as a void and why do we attempt to fill the void?

How could this space be understood as a constellation and which forces drive its structure?

Why do we have to measure time and space? To control the uncontrollable?

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SUBMISSION INFO

The submission should be uploaded as one PDF-file (max. 10 MB) in the course of the application via this call plattform.

The file name needs to include the name of the submitting person. The file should include:

• Texts/Photos/Videos of the work

• Written project statement (optional)

eg. description, context information, poem, essay, as you see fit (max. 1 A4 page)

OR voicemail (optional)

Since not everyone feels equally safe with written text, you can instead also record a voicemail (in English, Spanish, German, Italian or French) which you can link to in the document, describing your project in any way you feel comfortable with.

• CV (optional) (max. 1 A4 page)
• Portfolio (optional)

WHAT CAN BE SUBMITTED

Works of any medium can be submitted.
We would like to accompany the exhibition with a small publication, so we encourage the submission of graphic and text-based works for this as well.

If you have suggestions for a supporting program (eg. group practices, discussion panels, workshops, etc.), please contact us here: exhibitstudio@akbild.ac.at

WHO CAN SUBMIT

Students of all departments of the academy of fine arts can submit their works.
We encourage everyone to submit their work regardless of previous successes or advancement in their studies.  If you encounter difficulties choosing your institute in the submission form, you can just choose any of the other options available as this function might not work correctly.

 TIMELINE

Call Deadline: 12.07.24
Selection until: 26.07.24

SPACE - EXHIBIT STUDIO 2024/02
Construction: 26.08.24 – 30.08.24
Exhibition: 06.09.24 – 13.10.24
Deconstruction: 14.10.24 – 16.10.24
Opening: 05.09.24

TIME - EXHIBIT STUDIO 2024/03
Construction: 28.10.24 – 01.11.24
Exhibition: 08.11.24 – 02.02.25
Deconstruction: 03.02.25 - 05.02.25
Opening: 07.11.24

RESPONSIBILITY

The Exhibit Studio is a place of shared responsibility. This means that the artists/students are largely responsible for the installation & deinstallation of their work. As coordinators, we (Rodrigo and Jenni) run the planning of the exhibition and support the artists in their requests. We coordinate the production of exhibition displays, invitation cards, graphic material, support the promotion of the event and are available for questions regarding organization and installation, if needed.

As the exhibit studio is part of the institutional exhibition infrastructure, it is subject to the institution’s security and monument protection laws. We therefore have to consider the feasibility of the installation of each work in accordance with these guidelines. We might get in touch with students individually if questions concerning the installation arise.

We aim for an inclusive, anti-discriminatory exhibition practice and expect everyone involved to act respectfully and responsibly with each other and with the space.

BUDGET

We have a budget for the realization of each exhibition which can cover costs for graphics, transport, material, equipment, supporting program and artist fees.

For any other questions, you can always mail us exhibitstudio@akbild.ac.at

For further information please contact Exhibit Studiokoordinatorinnen (exhibitstudio@akbild.ac.at)

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