One to one Art

It’s not for everyone. It’s just for you.

Exploring what is possible only for the audience of one.

  • One-to-one transforms you, because it’s about you.
  • One-to-one allows the spectator to change the piece.
  • One-to-one broadens the possibilities of any artform.
  • Always a full house!
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One-to-One Workhsop w/Eva Nina Lampič @ House of Klajn 21.-22.3.06

We invite you to an intensive two-day workshop “One-To-One” led by Slovenian director and performer Eva Nina Lampič – an experimental theatre author and artist who develops hybrid formats between performance, conversation, and debate.   The One-To-One format explores the specifics of a performance encounter one-to-one, between one performer and one audience member. The workshop…

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Kehä festival 2025

This year, 14.-18.10. One-to-One Art Festival Kehä invites you to travel into your own inner landscapes. The multidisciplinary festival presents astonishingly inventive artworks, all designed to be experienced by just one participant at a time. The programme includes a digital artwork based on your own brainwaves captured by EGG reader, pieces that begin with your…

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Symposium: One-to-One Art in care communities, October 16th 2025

October 16th, 2025, Cultural Centre Valve, Oulu Hybrid format available For whom? Art and culture professionals and students who wish to develope European cooperation on one-to-one art field or to get insights into one-to-one art in care enviroments. Social and healthcare professionals and students who want to use arts-based methods in their work or collaborate…

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The artist selections 2025 for the One-to-One Art project have been made

The artist selections for the One-to-One Art project have been made! This year, we received 284 proposals for one-to-one artworks from all over Europe and the world, of which we selected 14. Some of the artists will perform their works both at the Kehä Festival in Oulu, Finland (14. – 18.10.2025) and the One-to-One Art…

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Locations of One to One Art

Map contains our partners, artists, festivals and residences.

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Festivals
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Organisations and collectives

This portal is for anyone producing one-to-one art. If you have a festival, a residency, workshop events, touring one-to-one pieces or other work related to the artform, please take contact and we will add you in our network.

ILME

ILME is a multi-art cultural cooperative based in Oulu, Finland. ILME is also the coordinating partner of the Creative Europe project “Producing One-to-One Art Events and Sharing the Experiences” that is publishing this very portal. 

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Gato Escaldado

Gato Escaldado Theater Company was created in 2019, by actors Ana Isabel Sousa and David Correia. The Company has been developing several theatrical projects for adults and children.

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House of Klajn

House of Klajn is an artistic residence and space for creating, living and performing run by a House Collective organization in Klanjec, Croatia. Through performance and cinema, we work with both international and local artists and collectives in promoting different contemporary art forms to local audiences.

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Artists

Tim Bishop

I’m based in Lund, South Sweden. I make one-to-one performance, film and installation works, specifically focusing on immersive, multi-sensory and interactive methods, and often involving technology to enhance presence.

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Celebrating D i   st  a n c   e and proximity

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Podcast

The One-To-One Art Podcast is created as a part of the One-To-One Art Project, coordinated by ILME (Finland) with partners Gato Escaldado (Portugal) and House of Klajn (Croatia) funded by Creative Europe. We talk with people who are involved in one-to-one format, be it in artistic or any other way. It’s about festivals, production, distribution, networks and research, but it’s also about the process, feelings, connection and exploration.

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Textual ruminations about one-to-one art

We are happy to publish essays and other texts with depth on one-to-one art. If you would like to offer a text that ruminates the artform, its history and contexts, or offers an interesting case example, please contact us. This section is meant to work as an archive so texts written perhaps long ago are also very welcome. At the moment we are not able to offer a fee for the texts.

Close encounters

“In their dissertation Close encounters. Issues arising in one-to-one performance from 2010, Mike Pony (artistic director of the Submerge festival) offers several interesting perspectives on the one-to-one format. Even though they claim to have been young and not very academic at the time of…

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Inside inside (EN)

Eva Nina Lampič Interviews herself about her one-to-one piece Inside, a reconstruction of a past or future dream created from the audience’s memories and imagination, and especially about the ways of creating collaboratively with the one person audience. What meanings do score,…

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The performance changes (with) every spectator.

Béatrice Didier, In Silence
Pictures 1 and 2 by Robert Maybach are from the Festival Perfoörm, Center for Contemporary Art Austriais, Linz
Picture 3 by Luis Alvarez are at Gallery La Part du Feu, Brussels.

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