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Dear Laila, you are five now and have started to ask me where I grew up, and why we can’t go there. This is me trying to give you an answer. The seeds of Dear Laila were planted when Basel’s five-year-old daughter began to ask him about his home growing up....

We are neither here nor there, hovering between two languages, two cultures, the past and the future, searching for a space of identity, constantly oscillating between the two poles.In Tunisian, 'barrani' means "the outsider," literally "the one who comes...

PLACCC launched its program series called Sensing the City in 2021, in which participating artists respond to pressing environmental issues through artistic micro-interventions.The term “sensing” has a double meaning, as it refers to both the physical...

PLACCC launched the Artist as Curator initiative in 2023, with the aim of making the program selection more horizontal by presenting each year at least one project proposed by artist(s) who regularly collaborate with PLACCC. In the first year, Ziggurat...

The performance Heroines' Square is an urban frontstage musical about gender inequality. It takes place in the city, and it aim at exploting how gender inequality is reflected in the city, in the public sphere. It is a frontstage musical because it foregrounds...

Have you ever wondered how an octopus senses its environment, how plants communicate, or how non-human lifeforms make sense of the world they live in? Have you ever asked yourself what is your own place in the complexity of our ecosystem, and how you co-exist with...