The Artist Job Description: A proposal for a practice led artistic research for the employment of the artist, as an artist, inside the art institution
Guest lecture by Vijai Patchineelam organized by Marina Grzinic, Post Conceptual Study Program.
If an experienced artist were to replace one of the museum’s public relation employees, would the artist decisions be any different than of the former employee? And if not what does this say and mean to the assumed progressive and transcendent properties of art, if the knowledge gained through its practice cannot be transferred to other human activities?
CV: Vijai Patchineelam was born in Niteroi, Brazil in 1983. Recently he concluded a Master Research at Sint Lucas, Antwerp, Belgium. He holds an MFA in Experience Design at Konstfack University College in Stockholm, Sweden and a BA in Industrial Design at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His work consists of photographic installations, multimedia installations and photobooks.
This lecture is possible thanks to the Artists-in-Residence program of the Austrian Federal Chancellery and KulturKontakt Austria.