International Collaborations

IN SITU

IN SITU is the European platform for artistic creation in public space. Since 2003, it supports artists working outside conventional venues and contributing to the transformation of our territories.

Project period: 2009 – ongoing

IN SITU, European platform for artistic creation in public space

IN SITU is the story of a group of programmers who are passionate about new aesthetics and the challenges related to public spaces. Since 2003, they have been joining forces to collaborate on a European scale and support artists working outside conventional venues. Today, it brings together more than 20 partners in Europe and beyond from more than 20 countries : Austria, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Tunisia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. 

Led by Lieux Publics, IN SITU implements PLATFORM, its 8th consecutive project co-funded by the European Commission’s Creative Europe program.  

As it has expanded, its expertise has been refined, and its activities have unfold: identification of artists, laboratories and incubators for transnational artistic projects, co-productions and dissemination of emerging creations, European and international cross-residencies, artistic explorations, professional seminars, a series of podcasts, the development of the first MOOC dedicated to artistic creation in the public space and the production of a second MOOC on cultural rights in public spaces as part of the (UN)COMMON SPACES project (2020-2024). 

IN SITU is committed to diversity and inclusion as outlined in the IN SITU diversity, equity and inclusion statement.

 

PLATFORM, boosting emerging artists’ international careers

IN SITU PLATFORM is a four-year programme running from 2025 to 2028 that aims to identify and support 200 emerging artists. It proposes an innovative and efficient support platform to develop artistic creations at the European level in public spaces and non-conventional venues.  

Three cycles are organised throughout the four years of the project, each of them welcoming and actively supporting around 65 artists selected through curated calls for applications. 

The programme includes online preparation and training, peer-to-peer exchange with experienced artists, workshops to support the artists in their concrete project development, immersive experience taking place within key festivals and events dedicated to art in public space in Europe with networking opportunities, tailor-made path of residencies and dissemination opportunities. This support will be rounded off with a FOCUS, a dedicated event co-funded by the network at one of the members’ festivals, to showcase some of the selected artists.
 

IN SITU Platform 2025-2028 video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRxAyAkhMNA
 

IN SITU partners in Europe and beyond 

Artopolis (Hungary), Atelier 231 (France), Bildstorung street art festival (Germany), Bùssola (Portugal), CCHAR (Switzerland), Cielos del Infinito (Chile), CIFAS (Belgium), Urban Culture Institute – City of Weaves (Poland), Collectif ACMUR (Burkina Faso), Čtyři Dny (Czech Republic), DARI project (South Korea), L’art Rue (Tunisia), Eyes Walk Festival (Greece), FiraTàrrega (Spain), Flynn Center (USA), Metropolis/KIT (Denmark), Norfolk and Norwich festival et Freedom festival (United Kingdom), ODA Teatri (Kosovo), Oerol Festival (Netherlands), Østfold Internasjonale Teater (Norway), Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof (Belgium), La Strada Graz (Austria), Sardegna Teatro et Zona K et BASE Milano (Italy).

To know more : www.in-situ.info

PLATFORM is a project co-financed by the European Commission’s Creative Europe program.

 

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LAND PROJECT

LAND (Land stewards AND artists) is a partnership of arts organisations from the Netherlands, France, UK, and Hungary exploring new ways for environmental organisations producers and artists to work together in the landscape.

Project period: 2018-2019

 

LAND’s vision is to create a distinctive collaboration between artists, producers, land stewards and environmental organisations, to explore our relationship with rural landscapes, the science and the heritage, through the medium of art while taking account of major environmental issues.

– to strengthen the relationship between partners, artists and land stewards in the creation and production of artistic work in the landscape.

– to develop audiences for artistic work in the landscape, particularly targeting young people;
– to development the professional skills and abilities of partners and land stewards in the understanding of this specialist field of work.

LAND network of European partners are Oerol Festival (Netherlands), Activate Performing Arts, (United Kingdom), Le Citron Jaune (France) and Artopolis / PLACCC Festival (Hungary).
LAND partners will work with selected European artists, a range of regional and national environmental organisations, together with universities and schools, to deliver a comprehensive programme in 2018 – 2019.

The key strands are:

– Presenting artists / companies who are developing their specialism in landscape sensitive work at festivals in all four countries.

– Residencies for artists / companies to develop new work alongside land stewards.
– Audience Development / Outreach programme for young people and schools
– Professional Seminars for artists, lands stewards and producers to share good practice and learning.

By offering the landscape as a field of experimentation, it offers the ability to re-think the landscape as a public space, in the hope of reuniting what is often seen as disunited or separate: humanity and its environment, art and nature, science and experience

LAND offers additional outcomes and benefits:

– rural landscapes animated through art attracting audiences to experience it in a new way;
– a stronger cohort of artists working in the landscape benefiting from new European markets;
– a connected European network of arts organisations, land stewards and artists;

– academic institutions developing distinctive work supporting this practice in the industry.

LAND project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.   

         

 

 

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