VIULife: Billboards project
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VIULife: Billboards is a project promoted by Venice International, a new way to experiment university life, interacting with spaces in a creative way, and a special way to comunicate, narrating academic activities and projects through art, events and suggestions.
VIULife: Billboards project was the first installment of VIULife activity, and was held at the end of 2005, on the occasion of the University’s tenth birthday.
VIULife: Billboards project was the first installment of VIULife activity, and was held at the end of 2005, on the occasion of the University’s tenth birthday.
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VIU invited the Bulgarian artists Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov, who had already created the large photographic billboards which inaugurated and closed Radar project, for the purpose of their creating a series of photographic portraits of all those operating inside the institution. The moments of ideation and organization prior to the snaps were inclusive operations, in the sense that the subjects portrayed could participate by making proposals and suggestions, besides deciding how to be shown. In this way, students, professors, researchers and staff – people who are even apparently far removed from artistic creativity – were able to share the experience of creativity, and follow the process and the many steps that transform an idea into a finished work of art from the inside.
The project also generated team-building work, favoring exchanges of ideas and a more profound acquaintance of the people who work inside the University, in all their so very diverse roles.
 See the making of the billboards
The final result: twelve large photographic billboards, printed on canvas, that show the university spaces inside the buildings on the island of San Servolo, relating study experience, research, teaching and daily work activities carried out at VIU in an ironic and, at the same time, accurate way.
In May 2006 Venice International University presented VIULife: Billboards, the catalog published by Marsilio which describes the creative process of the artworks.
VIULife was the first step in the dialogue between VIU and its students with artists, performers, designers, musicians and creative professionals. In events like this, as in future workshops, contemporary art, design and performance projects, Venice International University opened itself further to the city of Venice and to its residents and students, having the perspective of becoming a space of international dialogue.
The artworks are exhibited in Venice International University spaces.
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