EUNIC 2012 Austria

1. Programme description.

Partners of the programme:
— Die Springerin, magazin for contemporary art— as one of Austria’s leading medias specialized on the field of contemporary art — is a quarterly magazine dedicated to the theory and critique of contemporary art and culture. Springerin addresses a public that perceives cultural phenomena as socially and politically determined. Springerin informs about current events and tendencies in the cultural field und tries to describe their conditions and meanings. The magazine is published in German and distributed internationally. A special section of every issue (Netzteil) is examining the potentials of new technologies and media.

- Tranzit. at (or «tranzit. at, Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Wissenschaft» as it is stated in the founding papers), established in 2004 as a contributing part to the already existing tranzit bodies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. tranzit. at was intended to be the «outer-voice» of tranzit. org, communicating the concerns and requests to an international art world. As well tranzit. at brought numerous international contacts constisting of artists, theorists, curators, philosophers and so on into the tranzit. org network. In its self conception as a mediating element within the network all joint activities were coordinated, organized and financed by tranzit. at. Also all of the tranzit. org general legal and infrastructural concerns were dealt, coordinated and financed by tranzit. at.
With the increasing international recognition — especially for the exemplary network structure of tranzit — tranzit. at reacted on proposals by international partners to do projects abroad and also spread the idea of connected organisational structures. Institutions, such as the Gyumri Biennial in Armenia or the Visual Culture Research Center National University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) were able to benefit from that so far.

— Wiener Festwochen, (Vienna Festival) is a cultural festival in Vienna that takes place every year for five or six weeks in May and June. The Wiener Festwochen (Vienna) was established in 1951, when Vienna was still occupied by the four Allies. The Wiener Festwochen is now one of the world’s leading cultural festivals and it is one of the major highpoints of Vienna’s annual cultural programme. Each year, the Wiener Festwochen create or collaborate on a series of cultural events which combine the highest artistic standards with socially relevant issues and objectives.

The candidate will perform the following tasks:
A. The successful candidate for the residency at the Springerin and Tranzit will work for 4 weeks in October. The task will be the preparation and organization of the project «critical endevour» mentioned above in coordination with the participants and project partners.
B. The successful candidate for the residency at the Wiener Festwochen will assist for the Wiener Festwochen 2013 Exhibition project for 6 weeks in May 2013. The main partners of the project are Wiener Secession, Museumsquartier Wien and the Academy of Fine Arts.

2. Candidate requirements /Individual Specification
• Recommendation of at least one senior curator or institution, respectively documentation of an art project launched by the candidate
• Age: 22 — 35 years
• Good level of spoken & written English and (or) German is essential
3. What will be provided to the applicant
• The Austrian Cultural Forum will take care of the travel costs, the accommodation and a sum of 600 euro (candidate A) and 800 euro (candidate B) pocket money for the stay.
• The host institutions care about the intern helping him or her to get an insight into the Vienna Art scene and getting to know the structure of Vienna’s Art institutions.