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Narratives

Articles, news, interviews, conversations, podcasts, critics… Exchanges on topics related to public space between artists, the civil society and cultural operators. Keeping the dialogue with European cultural policy makers and the cultural and creative sector in general, this section explores how art can have an impact on society, and vice versa.

IN SITU Podcast — Episode 5 — S2

Nature

Nature

Art in an era of ecological emergency

IN SITU Podcast — Episode 4 — S1

Nature

Nature

From site-specific art to Nature/Artists interconnection

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Regeneration of places

Conversations on art and public space from the voices that do it

How to connect art and sustainability?

Nature

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?

In the wind

Nature

Mathieu Braunstein

Off the coast of Leeuwarden, provincial capital and 2018 European Capital of Culture, the Oerol festival is breaking attendance records on Terschelling Island (Northern Netherlands). As in previous years, environmental installations and performances feature alongside more traditional festival events. However, this year, a whole number of artists seem to have conducted unusual studies on time.

From a certain point of view

Regeneration of places

Mathieu Braunstein

The streets are a place of protest and sometimes of concern. In Paris, despite the small number of protesters, taking to the streets is a legitimate expression of the people’s democratic rights. In Barcelona, protests from both sides fill the streets on the question of Catalonian independence. But across the Pyrenees, Benjamin Vandewalle’s latest participatory performance in public space brings us back to art history.

Footprint, sight, space: from site-specific creation to site-sensitive art

Regeneration of places

Giorgia Marino

A garden begins wherever a human foot  touches the ground to step into a space that is both vegetable and mineral. That’s the moment when the memory of his presence is first settled in that place.” 

Interview with Trevor Davies

Nature

Jean-Sebastien Steil & Ariane Bieou

Licensed city planner Trevor Davies is the director of the Metropolis biennale of art in the public space, organized by Københavns Internationale Teater in Copenhagen. He is also the head of the application committee for the city of Åarhus in the run to host the European Capital of Culture program in 2017.