Creative Europe
Desk UK
for Culture

The name of the project is a programme in itself. Nine years after its creation, the IN SITU network – with its new project, META – intends to develop the idea of a societal function of art and artistic creation in public space while asserting its support in accompanying a humanistic project of contemporary European society.
For this project, IN SITU has brought together 19 partners, 9 of which belong to an inner circle of decision-makers. The network now covers 14 countries in the European Union and has reached out appreciably towards Central Europe.
2011-2016. Nothing less than five years will do to implement the ambitious actions focussing on three main themes: transformation, walking and the art of living together.
Each theme has been placed under the benevolent eye of a personality from the world of the arts or ideas: the philosopher Bernard Stiegler, the producer Bob Wilson and the dramatist and General Manager of Kosice 2013, Zora Jaurova.Each theme offers a different means of exploring the convergence of art and the city: sparking and spectacular for the first; Aristotelian and pedestrian for the second; and harking back to forgotten yet fundamental solidarities for the third, each on a European scale.
2013. META could not fail to reserve a particular place for the European Capitals of Culture – Kosice (Slovakia) and Marseille (France). In 2013, IN SITU will be heavily involved in numerous artistic actions.Creating, sharing, reflecting, confronting, giving meaning – in short, the five actions implemented by META intend to breathe new magic into public space.