Submit
your artwork for the new exhibition format AIL Ping-Pong at the showcases [Vitrinen] in the Kassenhalle
of Otto Wagner Postsparkasse
About the formatWith the aim of implementing playful
interdisciplinary interventions in the unique space of the Kassenhalle,
AIL Ping-Pong is a newly developed
format that repurposes the building’s architecture – specifically a former display cabinet [in German: Vitrine] of the Otto
Wagner Museum in the Kassenhalle to showcase artistic projects by Angewandte alumni*. In line with AIL’s mission to embrace
interdisciplinary approaches, AIL Ping-Pong fosters dialogue between 2-5 artistic positions for each period. Centered around
rotating themes, we envision AIL Ping-Pong to be a series of small scale presentations that function as a window into the
diverse artistic practices and languages of Angewandte alumni, offering a range of perspectives that explore parallels, contrasts,
or extensions within a thematic framework.
*Please note: The Open Call is addressed only to alumni, who are currently
NOT affiliated with the Angewandte via a Phd, teaching position or employment.
In its third edition, AIL
Ping-Pong will focus on the theme of COLLAPSECollapse can be both an ending and a beginning – a sudden
breakdown or a quiet unraveling. It might describe the fall of systems: ecological, economic, or political structures that
no longer sustain themselves. It can also speak to personal or emotional states, the moments when bodies, relationships, or
identities falter under pressure. Collapse is not only destruction; it is also transformation – the point at which something
gives way so that something else might emerge.
Artists are invited to explore collapse from any perspective: the
physical decay of materials, the implosion of meaning, the failure of communication, or the slow erosion of the familiar.
How do we navigate the tension between resistance and surrender? What forms of care, adaptation, or creativity can arise from
breakdown?
This open call welcomes works across all media – visual, text, performance, or hybrid formats – that
engage with collapse as process, metaphor, or lived experience. Whether intimate or systemic, catastrophic or subtle, collapse
asks us to look closely at the edges of what holds and what falls apart.
More information:
Website
of the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL) 
