IN SITU is the European platform for artistic creation in public space. It is led by Lieux publics, European and national centre for artistic creation in public space, located in Marseille, France.

Since 2003, IN SITU has supported over 300 artists, and currently brings together 16 partners from 13 countries : Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

The Flynn partnered with In Situ in 2021 with the mission to expand the Flynn beyond its 4-walled theater. Since joining, the Flynn has produced a handful of collaborative projects with artists from all over the world.

Projects

A Portrait Without Borders

The Flynn welcomed the American premiere of the interactive art installation A Portrait Without Borders, a mural created by the community and a team of robots from the UK-based studio Kaleider. For this project, the walls of the Amy E. Tarrant gallery at the Flynn were filled with drawings of faces from the community, creating a one-of-a-kind mural representing all of us. Hundreds of people from the Flynn community submitted their photos through a custom web portal, then those portraits were turned into original black-and-white line drawing and drawn directly onto the Flynn walls by Kaleider’s robots.

C'est pas là, c'est par là (It’s Not That Way, It’s This Way)

C’est pas là, c’est par là (It’s Not That Way, It’s This Way), produced by France-based studio Compagnie Galmae, invited community members to come together and untangle and maneuver through a massive web made of string. How does the crowd move? What is an individual within a group? How do we work together to solve a problem?

In the large parking lot at 128 Lakeside Avenue in Burlington, a dense string installation resembling a spider’s web was set up to fill the entirety of the space. Passing over and under the threads, hundreds of participants helped each other make sense of the web and roll it up into a single ball. It was fun, participatory, political, playful, and collaborative, and the evening finished with a celebratory, cathartic bonfire to commemorate the achievement of working together as a community.

The Money

The Money is a thrilling cross between a high-stakes game, a social experiment, and an intelligent theatrical experience. A group of complete strangers—the players—had 60 minutes to agree how to spend the pot. The watching audience can buy their way in at any moment, right up until the last second, and that can change everything. Every event is totally unique and completely unpredictable—full of drama, frustrations, opportunism, generosity, and excitement—all set to a ticking clock.

Interior photo of Chase Studio with mirrors and large street windows showing.

Playing Fields

The Playing Fields Project is a back-to-school celebration that travels to school districts around Vermont. The project invites communities to gather together for joyful and awe-inspiring performances on school fields. Everyone is invited to join the fun!

Strategic Plan

In January of 2024, the Flynn invited the community to come together for a conversation, led by the question "What Actions Can the Flynn Take Now to Have the Greatest Impact?" Over 250 people from the community entered the doors of the Flynn over the weekend to discuss this topic in an Open Space model, led and moderated by Kaleider's Seth Honnor.

Heavy Kinship vol.9

In the series Heavy Kinship, Nana-Francisca Schottländer explores the co-creative potentials of encounters between rocks and humans, between stony and fleshy bodies. Within the InSitu program of (Un)Common Spaces, Nana Francisca Schottländer has explored a series of European landscapes marked by human intervention, focusing on the mutually shaping dynamics between bodies of rock, of flesh, and of water, as they collide and move through time—ancient and recent—and space—local and global.

ARCH

In Arch, two performers build a breathtaking, freestanding structure out of concrete and ice blocks, accompanied by a continuous musical vigil. Audiences witness the building of the arch over a flame and then experience its deterioration and eventual fall. A riveting, poetic exploration of humans and materials, Arch speaks to the beauty and fragility of our global systems.

ABSURDABLE GAME NIGHT

Absurdable is a party game for all ages created by Kaleider. On tournament night, we will play in small groups, until one player is crowned the Absurdable winner. Do you have what it takes to be the most compelling, funny, or ridiculous player? A fun, informal, social evening hosted by U.K. performers Nao Nagai and Seth Honnor.