page_title: In Situ Contemporary Art Foundation
section_title: Passengers public art festival
hierarchical_section_title: In Situ Contemporary Art Foundation / Festivals / Passengers public art festival
caption_attribution_description: English: Koncerty Balkonowe 2012
context_page_description: In Situ Contemporary Art Foundation is a Polish foundation set up in 2004 by Bożenna Biskupska and Zygmunt Rytka.
context_section_description: Passengers is an urban festival, which has been running since 2007. Different artistic projects intersect in the urban space.
  The first event took place in a passenger tram line, exceptional tram, which was turned into a Camera obscura. The passenger could see the unusual movie made up of views of their own city. This Tram Obscure was designed by Simon Lee. Another part of this edition was Küchenmonument of Raumlabor Berlin and Plastique Fantastique, which was an ephemeral architectural object. Küchenmonument reorganised public space.
   
  In 2008 there were several small events under the banner of fight against privatisation of public space in the city. The aim of the action was to pay attention to spaces, which had been closed, fenced-off and privatised. The performances were realised by different artist, including: Folke Köbberling, Martin Kaltwasser in co-operation with Heath Bunting (they built and crossed the artificial walls). San Keller's "Wolf’s Choir" received wide attention setting up a debate on gated communities and their influence on public space in Poland. The third edition, in 2009, presented artistic answers to the question of how to manage the financial crisis – "Money for Nothing: Manifesto" for a time of crisis. For example, Roland Schefferski in the name of a potlatch of ideas dropped tokens (which looked like coins) around the city, with the idea that people could collect and exchange them for ideas. For the fourth edition, in 2012, the foundation organised balcony-concerts with alternative music. Concerts took place on Mokotowska Street in a very special place in the city, also known as “The Warsaw Smile” because its layout on a map looks like a smile. Accompanying the festival, there was extraordinary photography exhibitions of Warsaw before 1939 in shops and café house windows.
caption: A balcony-concert, 2012
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