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) 
