IN SITU ACT Days
02 Oct - 03 Oct 2020

RECLAIM (digital and physical) PUBLIC SPACE?
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“IN SITU ACT Days” - October 2nd, 3rd & 9th, 2020 - online and in Brussels!
In light of the current health crisis, the IN SITU ACT Conference, initially scheduled for April 2020, was cancelled. Over the past months, the IN SITU team and partners have been working intensively on an alternative proposal. In the interest of the health and safety of our participants and to heed the worldwide call to limit travel and large gatherings, the "IN SITU ACT Days" will not take place in its initial format as an only on-site event, but combine both online and on-site activities.
For all online participants, an inspiring digital programme has been compiled, including many artistic interventions, thematic speeches on sustainability, audience development, research and artistic creation.
For the Brussels public, co-organised with CIFAS and Provinciaal domein Dommelof, an exciting on-site programme with performances conceived by the IN SITU artists Nick Steur, Benjamin Vandewalle, Anna Rispoli and Martina Angelotti has been put together.
Although this two-day event will look different from what we anticipated, we are looking forward to this occasion to experiment new ways to network and to exchange ideas exploring this transformed public space collectively!
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Digital programme
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Our digital programme provides you with an overview of the current and upcoming projects of the network and the IN SITU artists. Together, we will also look back on the network's activities in the frame of the cooperation project IN SITU ACT supported by the European Commission.
IN SITU ACT trailer
Get prepared and take a look at our new IN SITU ACT trailer. This trailer looks back at the last four years of artistic creation in public space, filled with artistic encounters, a range of different formats, new aesthetics and trends of the supported artwork under the IN SITU ACT programme.
Keynote speech
An update on the recent and forthcoming European policy work given by Walter Zampieri, Head of Unit Culture policy and intercultural dialogue of the European Commission.
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Thematic podcats
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“Artistic Acupunctures”, a dialogue with the civil society
What is happening when you let nine artists explore nine European places, asking them to respond to social, cultural and urban local issues? In this podcast Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio, author of the "Acupuncture series", gives insights on the concept of this experimental artistic research project.
Podcast by Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio, researcher and writer (Spain)
How to connect art and sustainability?
While we see numerous hot-topics emerge, questioning the relationship or even the responsibility that art should have in an evolution towards an inclusive and environmental-friendly society, where do artists and organisers stand? How to foster a holistic approach that can really make a difference? In this first episode Thomas Lamers shares his vision of "What is public space?" The second and final episode of this podcast will focus on sustainability in the arts, and more specifically: on how we can think constructively, in both an artistic and a practical way, about creating more sustainable arts practices.
Two-part podcast by Thomas Lamers, dramaturg and philosopher from Collectief Walden (The Netherlands)
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Today, at 10 am (CEST): online performance of A Certain Value by Anna Rispoli and Martina Angelotti
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A series of residences were held in several European cities where the artist Anna Rispoli and the curator Martina Angelotti have met different communities. Based on the material collected during this research, they have created a reading-performance composed of many voices, a staged conversation between different communities about the possibility of sharing value today.
⋅ Live performance on Zoom on October 2nd, 10 am. Registration is mandatory. Click here to register⋅
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One place - one artist
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The IN SITU network had asked 5 European artists to do an artistic intervention in public space in Brussels. To adapt the proposal, IN SITU gave the artists a carte blanche, and proposed them to do an artistic intervention online, from their own country. The experimental artistic programme that has been put togehter, invites you to explore a wide spectrum of artistic creation in and for public space including an audio walk by R.M. Sánchez-Camus (United Kingdom), an audio essay conceived by Ambrus Ivanyos (Hungary), a recorded "web lecture" by Sara Leghissa (Italy) and two videos by Anna Anderegg (Switzerland) and Veronika Tzekova (Bulgaria).
Let the artists take you on a virtual journey!
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The lockdowns have increased the number of digital interactions. I expected my first weeks of social distancing to feel distant, but I found myself more connected than ever. Will we take the crisis as an opportunity to rethink and reshape our digital and physical environment in accordance with our human as well as environmental needs? Or will we make an even more thorough shift into automized capitalism?
As a choreographer I am interested in the correlation between habitat and body: How does my body cope with being physically distant and digitally interconnected? While my mind is wandering to various places and being present on multiple layers at once, how do my digital habits affect my bodily existence? How can I stay present? Following my desire to reunite online attention to my physical existence, I blindly wander the streets of Berlin. While my digital gazes are staring through the screen of my laptop on to the city, I try to witness my body being present."
Live Talk Session - 9 October, at 11 am (CEST)How to reclaim digital and physical public space? Working in public space today
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Several artists working in public space share with us their practice especially in these trouble times of global pandemic and social distancing. What is art in public space today? What does it mean to create in public space and what is the future of public space? Shall we all go digital?
Facilitation: Mikey Martins, Artistic Director of Freedom Festival Hull (United Kingdom)
Friday, 9 October, 11am (CEST)
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On-site programme in Brussels
Friday and Saturday, 2nd and 3rd October 2020
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⋅ Friday 2nd October: 4:00 pm // Pierre Paulus park ⋅
⋅ Saturday 3rd October: 2:30 pm // Pierre Paulus park ⋅
Studio Cité* by Benjamin Vandewalle (Belgium)
⋅ Open to all, free of charge ⋅
⋅ Friday October 2nd: Square Jacques Franck // 12:00 am > 7:00 pm ⋅
ACT 2016 - 2020 is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.