BIB-Art stands for Barcelona-Ischia-Berlin: Art creating • integrating • protecting Students from Spain, Italy and Germany discover the traces of artists´ colonies of the past. The idea of exploring artists´ colonies and even founding one ourself is highly topical. The emergence of right-wing groups in all partner countries causes concern for many students as well as for us adults. This explains the situation of the mostly young actors, painters, graphic artists and others, who once left their country and met abroad. There they shared their concerns, discussed politics, art and culture, ate and drank together, enriched their artistic development and left their mark. The project wants to record these traces and transform them to the pupils own sensations. To think together, to express oneself in an artistic way - simply to live actively together for a few days - is the foremost aim of this project, based on friendship and mutual understanding. As a result, we leave new footprints. Modern tracks. In the public area of each participant school, a gallery is created in the form of QR codes. We place these codes so that anyone can call up them with their smartphones. Imagine that via Augmented Reality the objects can be bought virtually in public space, if one scans the codes with the mobile phone. A real public gallery, which can contain pictures, texts, music as well as theater or discussions. At the same time, the analog and digital originals will be preserved and in each school, at the end of the project, it will be possible to display in classic form what their own pupils have contributed to the project. This shows the development of the pupils within the project.
BIB-Art stands for: Art forms • integrates • offers refuge Students from Italy and Germany discovered the traces of artists' colonies of the past. The idea of investigating artist colonies and even founding one's own was and still is highly topical. The strengthening of identitarian movements and right-wing groups in the partner countries worried most of the students as much as us, the adults. This made the situation of the mostly young actors, painters, graphic artists, etc., who once left their country and met in a foreign country, comprehensible. There they shared their concerns, discussed politics, art and culture, ate and drank together, enriched themselves in their artistic development and left traces. The project aimed to capture these traces and to transform them to the students' own sensitivities. Thinking together, expressing oneself artistically anew - simply living actively together for a few days - was the superficial goal of this project, which created friendship and mutual understanding. As a result, new traces were left – modern traces in the tradition of the European Enlightenment. In the public space of each participating school, both a public gallery was opened and a virtual gallery, which made the works of art accessible with the help of QR codes. The analogue and digital originals were preserved and in each school at the end of the project.