IN SITU ACT
Freedom Festival
Cooperation Projects
England
2016
Total project grant (euros)
€1,940,000
Programme
Creative Europe
Sub-programme
Culture
Call number
EACEA 29/2015
Project date
4 Nov 2016 - 31 Oct 2020
Number of partners in project
18
Lead organisation
Lieux Publics Association, France
Partners
Freedom Festival Arts Trust, UK
UZ Arts, UK
Ctyri Dny, Czech Republic
Kobenhavns Internationale Teater, Denmark
Verein Zur Forderung Von Strassenkunst Und Figurentheater In Osterreich, Austria
Augustine Steward Limited, Netherlands
Stichting Terschellings Oerol Festival, Netherlands
Provincie Limburg (B), Brussels
Les Tombees De La Nuit, France
Association La Paperie, France
Centre International De Formation En Arts Du Spectacle, Brussels
Indisciplinarte Srl, Italy
Fai-Ar, France
On-The-Move.Org Aisbl, Brussels
Atelier 231 Centre National Des Arts De La Rue, France
Artopolis Muveszeti Es Kulturalis Kozhasznu Egyesulet, Hungary
Ostfold Fylkeskommune, Norway
IN SITU ACT project involves 20 partners from Europe and beyond and is tool for structuring artistic creation in public space across Europe. It has four main objectives based on a shared diagnosis that sees transnational mobility as a need and a strategic response during a period of major upheaval:
- Promote artworks which operate with, in and for public spaces
- Test and implement a European model for integrated artistic support, involving artists, producers and the public in the creative process
- Develop an ecology of creation that connects artistic works with the economic, political and social realities in Europe
- Pool skills and resources and bring together those who locally influence and drive change in public space.
Several actions are to be implemented:
- A collaborative process for supporting artists: project development seminars, collective mentoring, adaptation residencies, support for mobility and public presentations
- Pilot projects, prototypes for shared creation between authors, organisers and public
- Training modules for young professionals
- Consultancy services for European cities and Capitals of Culture
- ”Satellite” partners in non-European countries
- European think-tank bringing together key influencers in urban and territorial development.
This is an ACT that will engage thousands of citizens in works presented to a million spectators.
While the IN SITU ACT project structures the sector of artistic creation in public space, the IN SITU Platform works to promote it. Together they form a whole in a system designed to structure the sector of artistic creation in public space and its artists, support their emergence and improve their visibility.





