IN SITU IMMERSIVE LAB

6th-11th July
Refshaleøen

As part of PLATFORM –  the latest IN SITU-open call project for emerging artists, Metropolis/KIT is hosting an immersive lab in Refshaleøen for 13 chosen artists with a co-curated programme by partners to support artistic development and foster international exchange. The lab will feature pitching-workshops, exercises in artistic mapping, performative presentations etc.

Read more about the lab and the artists here

The participating artists are:

Cirque Pardi!/Eva Ordoñez discovers circus in the squats of Buenos Aires. In 2012, she co-founded the Oktobre company which defends a tragicomic circus-theater style.

The project Bleu Électrique brings life to the outdoor space. What, at first glance, seems familiar and ordinary gradually transforms before our eyes into a strange, almost mysterious place. The circus research is based on replacing traditional circus apparatus with everyday objects.

Miriam Schmid studied education and educational sciences and was trained in theater pedagogy. She is a performer, director and theater maker in Graz and Vienna.

Welcome to MONEYBEE – MAIN POSTCARD SHOP, a tribute to Austria’s achievements and contributions to the development of Europe. Austria has long influenced the Balkans, yet its role is rarely seen as colonial. Still today, it frames its investments as partnerships, though they often secure Austrian influence. The Project challenges this narrative. Its mascot, a bee, symbolises profit returning to its “hive.”

Rafael Candela is an Italian/brazilian dance artist. His artistic practice, still in its early stages, is based on immersing his body in urban spaces, creating associations, encounters, and sometimes small accidents.

“Forrest, a bunch of people” is a project based on performativity in urban environments, exploring the role of bodies in these spaces and how their presence can shift the atmosphere and perception of it.

Maritea Dæhlin with Corentin Leven. is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Norway and Mexico, second generation Cameroonian. Her work, spanning video, performance art, sound, theater and text, is shaped by shifting geographies and contexts, being multilingual, non-linear and sometimes absurd.

Maritea and Corentin. wish to make a new outdoor work (title still to come) drawing from “Sleep Locks the Bones” (2024), a sound installation/performance where text and voice stand at the center of a collective experience around the theme of sleep.

Anže Sekelj is a Slovenian media artist predominantly active in the field of installation, sound, interactive design and video. Through his work, he challenges perceptions of space, culture, and the human condition, highlighting un-noticed structures of daily existence.

In his project, Scapes, he explores the intricate relationship between environmental sounds and human experience, drawing from the principles of soundscape ecology.

Elevate Cie/Jihed Blagui & Mohamed Ali Cherif are two young Tunisian performer-choreographers who share a research laboratory. Drawing from real events, hidden elements, or unspoken truths, they seek to defy the logic of time and space, crafting a dreamlike, unstable, fluid, and abstract universe.

In a world that seems devoid of meaning, two men meet and find themselves trapped in an unstable and contradictory reality.

Tangaj Collective/Simona Deaconescu, Ioana Vreme Moser & Simina Oprescu  is a production company based in Bucharest, creating socially-engaged work, fusing art, science and research.

The production critically addresses water movement from the oceans to the body. The performance explores our bodies as fluid territories, where human and non-human worlds meet, inviting audiences to rethink the political implications of water flows.

Compagnie Abis/Julien Carlier (BE) began his artistic journey through intensive Breakdance training while earning a master’s in physical therapy. A self-taught artist, he developed his choreographic language through interdisciplinary exchanges and collective projects.

BETON is rooted in public space, and more specifically the skatepark. It transforms these urban spaces into stages for movement. Fusing breakdance and skateboarding, the piece explores the interplay between speed, balance, and physical architecture. 

Wandelende Duinen/Eva Koopmans implement art within different types of ecosystems to create conversations about societal issues, with focus on the various connections that exist within these ecosystems.

‘Entangled Shorelines: carry me across the sea’ is an immersive artwork that takes visitors on a journey through a translocal network of landscapes connected to the sea.

PostCompost/Sviatlana Silich (Belarus) & Yania Arlova (Czech). Svetlana Silich is a visual artist, scenographer, and performer. Her work combines installation and performance with a unique relationship to visual art. Yanina Arlova  studies Directing and Dramaturgy for Alternative and Puppet Theatre at DAMU in Prague, where she focuses on postdramatic theatre.

Their project explores charging as an exchange of energy between natural and human-made systems. We contrast modern technology with nature’s tactile rituals and reflect on how children’s play mirrors our desire to reclaim time and redefine our connection with the world.

Irregulars/Azucena Momo (Spain) Azucena Momo is a multidisciplinary artist interested in body practices, relational geographies, ecology and community. In 2019, she founded her company Irregulars, through which she has developed contemporary dance projects in public spaces and walking performances. The blending of disciplines extends to her work in sound, podcasting, and documentary forms.

The proposal invites participants to embark on a solo journey along a path, offering an expanded moment in time that nurtures an intimate encounter between the individual and everything that inhabits this land.