Kaleider (UK) - PIG

PIG poses a playful dilemma in public space from the moment it is unveiled. The idea is to make a transparent pig, about the size of a small car, placed in a public space. Hanging inside the pig is an illuminated sign that reads “THIS IS A COMMUNITY FUND. YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO IT IF YOU LIKE, AND WHEN YOU’VE AGREED HOW TO SPEND IT YOU CAN SPEND IT. #THEPIG”Between 2018 and 2019, Pig toured in Norwich (UK) at Norfolk & Norwich Festival, in Terschelling at Oerol Festival (The Netherlands), in Moss presented by Østfold Internasjonale Teater(Norway), in Hull at Freedom Festival (UK), in Marseille at Travellings Festival (France), in Dundee at National Theater of Scotland (UK), in Carlow (IRL) at Carlow Arts Festival, in Cork (IRL) at Cork Midsummer Festival and at Kelburn Garden Party (UK). You can follow it on www.pigzine.com, an online magazine produced by young reporters that document Pig as it travels around the world and read more about the 2018 PIG tour diary on IN SITU blog.As an IN SITU Pilot project, Pig has been chosen as the main project to be looked at and evaluated along its European journey. At each stopover, from 2018 to 2020, IN SITU evaluation partner On The Move will collect impressions and feedbacks on the different experiences triggered by its presence. By 2020, a final evaluation document will analyse, comment and draw conclusions from these experiences.

Liquid Loft (AT) - Foreign Tongues

Each city, through its languages, jargons and regional variations, creates its own sounds. Some new languages or dialects might appear and become audible in a city, while others might be temporarily lost or even become extinct.

Liquid Loft investigates into the sounds of languages spoken by individuals in a region or a city, focussing on characteristics like tone, rhythm, dynamics or intonation of the speaker. The human body is – as it were – the instrument for these phonetic acts, which are then transferred as a music score into public space: How does a human being move in public space and how do the linguistic sound environments created by ourselves and others, influence our body-language? In a very subtle way, present, mythology and politics penetrate our daily movements. Language contains all of this, in a very subconscious and intangible form.

In 2018, Foreign Tongues was presented in Terschelling at Oerol Festival (The Netherlands), in Prishtina at Hapu Festival (Kosovo), in Graz at La Strada Graz (Austria) and in Hasselt at Theater op de Markt (Belgium),

Richard Wiesner (CZ) - Twenty-Eight

Twenty-eight is a site-specific installation representing the EU group of twenty-eight member states. Individual states are represented by translations of their national anthems, which are a central theme of the entire installation.The Motto of the EU, “Unity in Diversity”, however, highlights the need of individual states to define and build their own identity. A nation is represented to a significant extent by its symbols and national myths. The act of election and the process of developing national anthems often uniquely correlate with the creation of nations’ own images. The content of national anthems often conflict with the EU’s efforts to unify, and highlight the need of states to fight and protect themselves as unique and undisrupted space.A way of questioning the concept of identity against the current backdrop of rising nationalism across Europe.In 2018, Twenty-Eight was presented in Budapest at PLACCC festival (Hungary) and in Marseille at Travellings Festival (France). In 2019 it was presented in Norwich (UK) at Norfolk & Norwich Festival.