IPSO

The collective IPSO was founded in 2020 by Rebecca Minten to explore transdisciplinary ways of creating based on exchange, solidarity and equal collaboration. With no hierarchy between disciplines, members are encouraged to step out of their comfort zones, redefine their roles, and invent together. The focus lies as much on collective research as on creating shared works and developing methods that can be transmitted and shared with others.

Actors, musicians, dancers, circus artists, computer scientists, and sound creators come together to imagine unique experiences. Each project is built collectively: everyone brings their own tools and sensitivities, while ideas emerge through exchange, improvisation, and unexpected detours. The aim is a creation that is playful, thought-provoking, and accessible—even for audiences less familiar with art in general.
IPSO’s creations combine individual skills in new formats and immersive experiences open to all ages. Everyday themes, social phenomena, and political issues are explored with lightness and humor, while still carrying a critical and sincere message.

IPSO has created two works: inSENSé (2022) and DOMMAGE DOMMAGE (2024–25), which is currently on tour.

How we work?
IPSO is a collective of versatile artists engaged across disciplines. Time is dedicated to sharing, learning, training, and experimenting together. Research begins with the individual knowledge of each member, passed on in dedicated sessions where all disciplines are valued equally. This process has led to artists who play music, dance, and perform text in a single gesture—with joy and a contagious curiosity that reflect IPSO’s vision of art.
The members bring together diverse paths and practices—clarinet, cello, dance, circus, acrobatics, visual arts, photography, puppetry, scenography, drums, percussion, acting, directing, sound art, and technical design.
This diversity fuels flexible, hybrid forms that can adapt to many contexts. Our works are designed to be mobile and can be performed anywhere—on theater stages, in unconventional spaces, or outdoors. This mobility is at the heart of IPSO’s identity, allowing projects to meet different audiences in formats that are both inventive and accessible.

Beside shows, the collective regularly shares its collaborative methods through workshops which allows participants to playfully try IPSO’s processes.

Where?
The collective has inhabited numerous places for residencies, shows and workshops : Fondation les Muriers, STAMM Studios, Musikfestival Bern, Grätsche Junges Theater Festival, Kulturzentrum Bienzgut, Voltahalle Basel, Kubus 3 Freiburg etc.

ipsoensemble@gmail.com

@ipso.arts

MEMBERS :
MATTHIEU WENGER
LUZ GONZALEZ
EVA LANG
CLARA DIETZE
JOAO CALADO
SAMUEL GFELLER
ANNA ROTH
STEFANO GRASSO$
ELLA CAMPBELL
REBECCA MINTEN

Credit pictures : Sarah Tanner