Practice · 01 / Create

Location
Santander · London · Olten
Languages
DE · EN · FR
Capacity
3 active engagements / yr
Lead
Yannick Portmann

Create

Commissioned public art, participatory festivals, immersive formats and light processions. Works that only exist through collective presence — enacted, not observed.

ForCultural institutions · Municipalities · Festival organisers · Cultural funds

What we offer

A short list of specific things we do — every engagement is shaped to fit.

01

Participatory festivals

Multi-day collective formats with budgets CHF 70k+ and casts of 30–60 collaborators. We hold artistic concept, production, partnership and community engagement.

02

Public art commissions

Permanent and temporary works for plazas, parks, waterfronts and civic interiors. Concept through installation, with full technical drawings and engineering coordination.

03

Light processions

Choreographed night-walks with hundreds of participants carrying handmade light. The Leuchtzug series; transferable to any city centre with an evening hour to spare.

04

Immersive formats

Nomadic experience formats designed to tour — currently developing Holy Pet Pyramid for Olten and London. Modular set, transportable rigging, local cast in each city.

05

Editioned works

Small-run physical works that document or extend a project — prints, objects, scores. Distributed through galleries and the studio shop.

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