10 Years of AIL – Postcard Edition

Together we ask: Where are we and where are we ­going?

For its ten year anniversary, AIL presents a special edition of postcards. Installed in the former cashier hall of Otto Wagner Postsparkasse, visitors are invited to select one and send it out into the world. ­Valerie Prinz, student and alumni of the department of ­Creative Writing [Sprachkunst] has developed a ­series of statements which emerge from AIL’s cosmos of questions, research and program.

In this place of exchange, we ­encourage you to stay ­connected.

Every day visitors and tourist come into the building, looking for a post office. Still not selling stamps, for a moment, we keep the expectations coming with the building of Postsparkasse.

As a temporary installation, you can find now a postcard holder in the setting of Café Exchange. Pick your favorite cards and send them out into the world.

The famous building of the ‘Post­sparkasse’, designed by Otto Wagner for Georg Coch, built between 1904 and 1906, and used as a bank until 2017. Since 2021, the University of ­Applied Arts Vienna has presented the Angewandte ­Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL) and Café Exchange in the ‘Kassenhalle’ and two exhibition spaces. The AIL is the university’s platform for art, science and artistic research. At AIL, the relationship between art and science and the potential of ­interdisciplinarity is explored, while making ­artistic research at the University of Applied Arts Vienna ­accessible to a broad public.