IN SITU PLATFORM — Guerret El Anz residency by Roof collective
IN SITU PLATFORM (2025–2028) is a European initiative coordinated by a consortium led by Lieux Publics, offering targeted support to emerging artists working in situ and in public, non‑conventional spaces. Bringing together over twenty partners across Europe, the platform supports projects conceived for atypical sites — with L’Art Rue representing Tunisia and promoting its emerging artists within the network.
Project overview
Selected as one of Tunisia’s projects within IN SITU, Guerret El Anz by the Roof collective held its first residency at Dar Bach Hamba, culminating in a public showing on 17 April 2026. Framed by the In Situ programme, the residency examines the fragility and persistence of Tunisian expressive forms in the face of contemporary pressures — sociopolitical instability, economic strain and the forces of globalization that reshape rituals, practices and collective memory.
Guerret El Anz — poetics and stakes
Guerret El Anz, literally “the goats’ cold,” evokes an Amazigh image: a short, penetrating cold snap that announces spring and is said to be harsh enough to test even the hardy goat. The expression becomes a central metaphor for the project — a culture under strain, ritual registers exposed to distorting forces yet sustaining a resilient pulse. The work unfolds as a dystopian fable, attentive to present signs while seeking to preserve and reinvent gestures, sounds and images at risk of erasure.
Positioned at the intersection of choreographic research, site‑specific performance and audiovisual installation, Guerret El Anz uses a collective, cross‑disciplinary approach to show how vernacular forms can be reactivated for contemporary storytelling — not as fixed nostalgia or mere repetition, but as a critical, poetic reworking of local gestures and voices. In this respect, the residency aligns with the ambitions of IN SITU and L’Art Rue: to support site‑rooted works that can engage in dialogue across an international network.
Form and dispositif
Guerret El Anz takes the shape of a choreographic, performative installation: a hybrid dispositif where body, light, image and sound compose a fragmented stagescape that is at once ritual and post‑ritual. The piece stages tensions between presence and absence, memory and alteration, observation and participation.
Credits
- Concept, choreography and performance: Houcem Bouakroucha & Feteh Khiari
- Live sound creation and performance: Rami Harrabi
- Live visual creation and performance: Achref Bettaieb
- Scenography: Feteh Khiari & Achref Bettaieb
Next steps and dissemination
The public presentation at Dar Bach Hamba marks the project’s first public moment; Guerret El Anz will continue its presentation and exchange within the IN SITU network.