TRANSGRESSION
May 5th-22nd, Poitiers, Berlin, Cologne, Vilnius, Nida

The second stage (Transgression) of Migrating Art Academies commenced on May 5th. Students from art universities of three countries, viz. Germany, France and Lithuania, will live and create “on the road”: they will travel by campers and will collect various data “discovered” on the road with the help of sensors. Berlin, Vilnius and Nida will become the meeting places where workshops will be held, sound project Dusk, Day, Dawn will be presented and student group projects will be developed, while the obtained results will be revealed in the public presentation to be held in Vilnius railway station.

Transgression symbolises stepping beyond limits and discovering new forms. It seeks to change habitual routines of the students, thus allowing them to discover fresh expressions of creativity. During the trip, data will be collected using sound, light, vibration or thermal sensors for the implementation of student group projects. Students will describe their discoveries made and experiences gained on the trip in their blog.

German students will be engaged in project Sliding Window based on the determination of collected data by the choice of the equipment being used and the settings deliberately or accidentally applied to it. The French team will be engaged in project Hospitality, which will analyse the role of hospitality in modern societies beyond borders. Fieldworks will emphasise the importance of practical work in the natural environment, rather than in a laboratory or studio, and will be the point of reference for the Lithuanian team.

During this session, students of all three universities will first meet in Berlin where joint workshops will be held. On Friday, project Dusk, Day, Dawn containing sounds collected during the trip will be presented in Berlin; sound sessions will be presented at dawn, at midday and at dusk. This will be followed by the trip to Vilnius where group projects of students of each university will be further developed; the obtained results will be revealed in the public presentation in railway station spaces. Then the students will head for the inspiring Lithuanian locality of Nida.

The Migrating Art Academies project aims to provide a new learning model uniting habitual routines and new co-operation forms. With slogan mixed reality for better education the students will have an opportunity to work in space in-between virtual and real, the usual domestic environment and new places. By travelling and exploring the surrounding environment, the students will visit several European capitals of culture, viz. Vilnius, Linz and Essen (Ruhrgebiet).