The art of the city is a variety of stimuli experienced through the senses on diverse levels. Art, culture, the city, society are complementary spheres. In the context of the audience’s artistic needs, individual artistic needs still tend to be forgotten. What is the art by people with disabilities like? How do we feel art and perceive creativity when the senses are switched off due to conscious actions or biological limitations? What is the art today that defines the viewer as an educated critic of contemporary interpretations of beauty? The “Feel the Art of the City” project has an educational and social character. With the help of artistic interpretation, it will allow blind and visually impaired people to take a sensory walk around the Old Town in Bydgoszcz and learn about the volume, structure and texture of the unique architectural objects.
The participants of the project worked within selected buildings located in the urban space, which are a landmark of the city. Based on the collected research material, they visualised a normative spatial-sensory image with graphic information about a specific building and a mock-up of it printed on a 3D printer.
The prints are a combination of new artistic techniques such as 3D printing, digital printmaking and traditional techniques: dry needlework and serigraphy. The functional form thus created will complement the 3d topographical map, a mock-up of a visual city constructed on the semantics of the senses.
Project participants: Project participants: Karolina Banicka, Inga Grabowska, Oleksandra Holynska, Patrycja Kujawińska, Maria Nalewaj, Mateusz Martek, Amelia Słowik, Hanna Szabłowska, Matylda Zboińska
Curators: Joanna Czołgosz, Monika Pyszczyńska
Coordination: Karolina Rybka
Project implemented as part of the 5th edition of the “WENA” Grant Programme of the Starak Family Foundation.
The exhibition is organised by the Leon Wyczółkowski State Secondary School of Visual Arts in Bydgoszcz in cooperation with the Starak Family Foundation.
The exhibition’s partner is Municipal Gallery bwa in Bydgoszcz.
21.06.2024 – 13.07.2024
Gdańska 3
