"Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed"
Miranda July
VORBRENNER is a contemporary art platform that promotes process-oriented work across all disciplines and genres. It offers short-term opportunities for collaboration for both collectives and individual artists in search of new insights and contemporary forms of expression that engage with an interdisciplinary concept of art and science. The focus is on a movement that is curious, experimental, researching, and developing, that welcomes the unfinished, the paradoxical, and the fragmentary. For exploratory trials of such nature, VORBRENNER provides the BRUX premises along with infrastructure and financial resources.
VORBRENNER has at its disposal an annual fund of EUR 40,000.00 for developing new projects (funded by the City of Innsbruck and the Province of Tyrol). This amount is available to the projects and their applicants and will be distributed among the various projects and receive funding in the form of money, space, technology, PR, and consultation.. The advisory board coordinates the distribution of funds and the available infrastructure for the various projects. The selected applicants are then supported in the project’s implementation, budgeting, coordination, administration, and documentation by VORBRENNER
Called for are interdisciplinary projects with an experimental approach that work within the intersections of architecture, visual arts, film, photography, literature, music, performance, theater, virtual/extended reality, and beyond. The projects can be performative, installative, or participatory, with no specific content requirements. The quote may be understood as an associative impulse.
Together, the VORBRENNER projects form an annual program implemented in the months of April, June, September, and October. During this period, the spaces of BRUX are available for project work and events. Alternatively, projects can also be implemented in public spaces in Innsbruck/Tirol.
DEADLINE Sun, May 11th 2025 (11:59, CET)
Application documents must be submitted in ONE (!) PDF file (max 2MB) and send via e-mail t application@vorbrenner.at
The entire project submission should not exceed more than 12 pages and should not exceed the size of 2 MB. The project description should please be written in the third person and not in the first person. (example: „In his/her/their work,the artist deals with ...“)
Contents:
- detailed project description (process, media, intentions) on max. 5 A4 pages.
- additional short description ofthe project (max. 1000 characters).
- realistically calculated and detailed cost and budget plan (please note: all expenses associated with the project must be clearly stated. Any costs not included in the submitted budget cannot be reimbursed by VORBRENNER.)
- schedule detailing the project’s implementation within the run of the VORBRENNER-months: April, June, September, October 2026 (Possibility to be a part of Premierentage Innsbruck until Nov. 8th) (Note: next to your preferred month, please also indicate other months that could alternatively work.).
- Information about the applicants (biographies).
- contact information (email address and phone number).
• Information on past and ongoing projects can be found at: vorbrenner.at, facebook.com/vorbrenner, instagram.com/vorbrenner