Narratives

AKA: choreographic laboratory for a giant puppet

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by Benoît Mousserion from the Compagnie L'Homme Debout

AKA is the name of one of our puppet. It represents a woman and measures 8 meters in height. It’s also the name of the artistic laboratory that brings this puppet into play.

Death on paper

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The emotional life of documents that administrate death. by Cristina Maldonado

Death on paper: The emotional life of documents that administrate death, is a project proposed by Cristina Maldonado, Associate Artist from Czech Republic, to the Urgell Regional Archive in the city of Tarrega. 

La Muerte en Papel

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[ES] La vida emocional de los documentos que gestionan la muerte

Desde el arte investigo el mundo, encuentro sentidos, sugiero otros, conecto lo que aparentemente no está conectado y visibilizo lo que se esconde en lo que nos es ordinario.  p.p1 { margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.5px 'Avenir Next' }

Relational Practice or Dreaming of Pollination

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by Cristina Maldonado

In the research Invisible Bonds: Performativity of Death in the Everyday (2021-24), my usual ways of researching and production were challenged by new questions and modes of relating to partners and citizens in the IN SITU European platform for artistic creation in public space. This period helped me to devise a particular artistic-ethnographic practice by establishing long-term collaborative relationships with partners and experts on the topic of death. This action was part of (UN) COMMON SPACES, co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union. Supported by Fira Tarrega, Čtyři Dny, Atelier 231, and Au bout du Plongeoir. 

GUDEBERGJORDET - A LAND OF COUNTLESS VOICES.

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An Agency for the More-than-humans. by Eva Bubla

As one of the invited IN SITU artists to have artistic explorations related to an upcoming public art triennial of Østfold Internasjonale Teater (ØIT), I had my first visit to Fredrikstad in the beginning of 2022. 

Things that happen in the street. An attempt at a dictionary

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By Eléctrico 28

This dictionary attempt captures the spontaneous and never-ending choreography of daily life, radically exposed to open air. And then, organizes all the material in very unique categories, following an alphabetical-rebel instinct and an artistic code rooted in Eléctrico 28’s approach to urban space. We observe through a sharp but non-judgmental eye.

School of Unlived Worlds

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A written retrospective from La Strada Graz Festival in 2023

The following visuals are from a printed fanzine made within (UN)COMMON SPACES project, as a result of the edition of Emke Idema's School of Unlived Worlds in Graz, in collaboration with Marie Groothof.

To Plant a Person

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Invisible Bonds / performativity in the everyday of death by Cristina Maldonado

Plant a Person was initiated by Cristina Maldonado as part of her research project Invisible Bonds: Performativity of Death in the Everyday, within the frame (UN) COMMON Spaces of IN SITU.  It was initially researched in the Czech Republic in collaboration with Michal Salwinski and Eszter Koncz, and its first work in progress was presented in Au bout du Plongeoir in 2022.

SENSING THE CITY. Curatorial and Artist Perspectives

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The city unfolds itself to us through our senses. We explore our environment, its rhythm, atmosphere, texture, as well as its current condition, the impact of our individual and social practices through sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste.

Sauf le Dimanche rencontre Matthias Tronqual

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[FR] Un entretien à lire et écouter en français

Sauf le Dimanche meets Matthias Tronqual

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[EN] An interview between a collective and a programmer

The Walking Man in Milano

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L'Uomo Che Cammina by Leonardo Delogu / DOM-

The Walking Man is the show that DOM- has been touring Europe since 2015 and is somewhat of a poetic manifesto for the group. 

La Buca Journal

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by Leonardo Delogu

The Art of Walking the Talk

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By Tora Balslev, dancer and Emerging Artist of Københavns Internationale Teater

Interruptive gifts of [ The Frame ]

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By Alina Stockinger (Eléctrico 28)

The Octopus Exercise

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To rid herself of her writer’s block, Emke decided to try out something a bit different in the forest near where her parents live. She embarked on a trip that shows her how relative her normal experience of the world was. Based on this experience and her interest in the workings of the human senses and psyche, she is now developing a project called ‘The School of Unlived Worlds’. In it, you, the audience, are asked to place your 'perception bubble' amidst the perception bubbles of other people and other animals and to try creating new bubbles (‘Unlived Worlds'). This fosters a deep respect for the worlds of others (including those who aren’t human) and a sense of the wonderfulness of existence. This text describes her initial experience as an example of the workings and mindset behind "The School of Unlived Worlds"

humANimals

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by Veronika Tzekova

Going Visiting the River That Dried Up

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Nana Francisca Schottländer in residency in Lieux Publics

What Tàrrega Has Taught Me About Death

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Conversation with Anna Giribet i Argiles & Cristina Maldonado

Festival Fira Tarrega, Spain 

Signal from Dachstein

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Putting an ear to the glacier

Festival La Strada | Graz, Austria

C-ING — Word hybrids and deconstructing to construct again

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Veronika Tzekova

Veronika Tzekova (AT), associate artist of La Strada under the (UN)COMMON SPACES project, takes us through her week-long residency and site-specific works for AUDIO IBRIDA at ZONA K in Milan, in October/December 2022.

Inside Sauf le Dimanche and Eléctrico 28 Exploratory Residency

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Watch and read about a longer, deeper type of residency

In the fall of 2022, the artists Eléctrico 28 and Sauf le Dimanche gathered in Tàrrega, Spain  for an exploratory residency hosted by IN SITU's Partner FiraTàrrega. Responding to the associate artists' need to work more  process-based, to focus on research and exchange, their research laboratory is a telling example of a growing trend within the network.

Kaleider's Tour Diary 2022

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Seth Honnor

Seth Honnor, artistic director of Kaleider (UK) and associate artist of Freedom Festival under the (UN)COMMON SPACES project, shares with us part of his European tour through the IN SITU network. With various projects in diffusion ('PIG', 'Robot Selfie', 'The Money', 'The Time it Takes','Fish Mobile'), production and research ('Arch') Seth Honnor offers us an intimate behind the scenes glimpse of an IN SITU artist.

How to connect art and sustainability?

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Thomas Lamers

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?

PIG tour diary

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Seth Honnor

Seth Honnor, the artistic director of Kaleider (United Kingdom) followed his PIG around Europe. PIG is an original IN SITU Pilot project focusing on the concept of collective choice and responsability. Taste a bite of its 2018 tour and read its diary.

How to build a fictional reality?

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Ambrus Ivanyos

The Hungarian artist Ambrus Ivanyos of the collective MeetLab describes the conceptual significance and the creation process of the project How to disappear completely, a site-specific reality game in the public space that has been developped and presented at PLACCC Festival in Budapest in September 2018 and adapted in Izmir, Turkey, in February 2019.

First Life - Hyper-reality according to Ici-Même [Paris]

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Samantha Maurin

Fleeting Cities in Europe

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Olivier Grossetête & Anna Rispoli (Zimmerfrei), interviewed by Quentin Guisgand, Ariane Bieou (IN SITU) and Jasmine Lebert (Lieux publics)

Olivier Grossetête and Zimmerfrei collective (Massimo Carozzi, Anna de Manincor et Anna Rispoli) build “fleeting” cities. "Fleeting City" by Olivier Grossetête and "Temporary Cities" by Zimmerfrei are two IN SITU projects. As one creates common sense by building real cardboard walls, the other offers a dream version of the city.Artists' reflection about the invisible walls dividing our towns.

HOLE(S) and HILL(S) heal

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(Trou(s) et Colline(s) guérissent)

Shared rituals, practices and tools in interlocking living systems

Silent Spring

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A tale of urban re-pollination

Shared rituals, practices and tools in interlocking living systems

HEAVY KINSHIP - research residencies within the IN SITU network — Part 1

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First part of the series throughout IN SITU by Nana Francisca Schottländer

Nana-Francisca Schottländer is a Copenhagen-based inter-disciplinary artist working at the intersection between dance, performance, installation, and conceptual art. Her work revolves around encounters and intra-actions with other-than-human entities and phenomena such as rocks, fungi, water, soil, and entire geographical areas with their inherent lifeforms and dynamics. Central to her work is the use of her own body as a living tool for research and creation. 

HEAVY KINSHIP - research residencies within the IN SITU network — Part 2

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Second part of the series throughout IN SITU by Nana Francisca Schottländer

Nana-Francisca Schottländer is a Copenhagen-based inter-disciplinary artist working at the intersection between dance, performance, installation, and conceptual art. Her work revolves around encounters and intra-actions with other-than-human entities and phenomena such as rocks, fungi, water, soil, and entire geographical areas with their inherent lifeforms and dynamics. Central to her work is the use of her own body as a living tool for research and creation. 

HEAVY KINSHIP - research residencies within the IN SITU network — Part 3

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Last part of the series throughout IN SITU by Nana Francisca Schottländer

Nana-Francisca Schottländer is a Copenhagen-based inter-disciplinary artist working at the intersection between dance, performance, installation, and conceptual art. Her work revolves around encounters and intra-actions with other-than-human entities and phenomena such as rocks, fungi, water, soil, and entire geographical areas with their inherent lifeforms and dynamics. Central to her work is the use of her own body as a living tool for research and creation.