Genuine artistic traces are being placed in the city
Dear friends,
We are continuing our endless quest to reinvent the public space, our meeting point. We are rethinking it for what it means for locals, for those who live exactly there? What it means for those who pass by often? And what it means for those who never passed or never stopped even though they live in this city for a long time? We are reinventing spaces and hideaways of the city and we are curious to discover the experience of those who are back for a short break. Those who carried memories and sensations throughout the year or many previous years of their own homeland, or maybe their parents homeland.
HAPU this year invites you to start the Festival rediscovering and re-experiencing Prishtina through your own car in an artistic experience “X-terr”, which is Teatri ODA’s last proposal to IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space, coming from Kosovo artists and developing step by step to further share this artistic journey with other European cities and places in the future. With Mischief La-Bas from Scotland we have transformed back alleys and hideaways behind busy coffee shops and building in the centre of the city offering an artistic experience of the cynicism behind “nursery rhymes” and “education” of our children through ideas of authority, morality and social indoctrination. In a video by “17” projected in facades of different spots in the city you will discover four stories of expectations, limits and reality where these four characters ended. You shouldn’t miss the closing performance of four men dressed in white by G. Bistaki from Franca, who with all their fantasy of combination of juggling, theatre and dance guide us in a stunning chorographical and musical journey.
During these Festival days you will rediscover other possibilities of dancing together with us, discovering stories of local and European artists learning challenges and excitements of artistic creation in public space at the European level.
As we have enjoyed a lot the work done during the year and before, I hope you will enjoy too these artistic journeys during these inspiring and reinventing days in our common space, in which we are carving genuine artistic traces year after year in our collective memory.
Florent Mehmeti, Artistic Director, HAPU – Festival of Art in Public Space
IN SITU PLATFORM 2014 – 2017 & ACT 2016 – 2020
The European Platform for Artistic Creation in Public Space
IN SITU brings together a group of programmers who are passionate about new forms of art and public space. They have been working together since 2003 to develop joint European projects.
The expertise and activities of IN SITU covers scouting and promotion of artists, organisation of project laboratories and incubators, co-productions and promotion of emerging creations, organisation of conferences and seminars, etc.
To date, IN SITU has supported over 180 European artists. It gathers 25 partners from 17 countries from as many practical and aesthetic backgrounds which all contribute something vital to the network. Whether members come from a sprawling metropolis or a rural area, whether they are seeking to rehabilitate industrial wasteland or redesign landscapes, the goal is always to serve artists working with, in and for public space.
IN SITU is now working across two complementary projects:
IN SITU PLATFORM is one of the first platform to have been selected by the European Commission under the Creative Europe programme, it aims to highlighting and promoting emerging artists who are working outside conventional venues and contributing to the transformation of our territories
IN SITU ACT, a large scale cooperation project gathering 20 partners mostly from Europe is funded for 4 years after its official launch in November 2016 until the end of 2020. It ambitions to be the European tool for the structuration of artistic creation in public space.
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