The Artist Job Description, for the Employment of the Artist, as an Artist inside the Art Institution studio Oaza

Project description

The book as an object is the result of the PhD research of the Brazilian artist Vijai Patchineelam at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. It deals with the artist’s experience of work and residence within art institutions and the development of artistic practice with an attempt to recognize and deal with the tensions that exist in that relationship, especially today under the pressure of austerity-politics. It consists of three parts: 1. a theoretical part, 2. a central photographic essay – physically separated and perceived as a book within a book, and 3. a transcribed research seminar.

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studio

Oaza, Zagreb

art direction and graphic design

Nina Bačun, Roberta Bratović

project author

Vijai Maia Patchineelam

contributors

Hemant Sareen (text editor); Fabien Silvestre Suzor ( photo editor); Adrijana Gvozdenović, Evi Olde Rikkert, Felix Rapp, Joep Vossebeld, Julia Dahee Hong, Pia Louwerens (authors of the research seminar Descriptions Change, The Artist Job Description); Sveučilišna tiskara, Zagreb (print)

publisher

Oaza & Friends in collaboration with AP – University for Applied Sciences and Arts, Antwerp and a.pass Posthogeschool voor Podiumkunsten vzw, Bruxelles