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ART IN PROCESS (AIP) is an Australian/Austrian entity, formed by the artists bello benischauer & elisabeth m eitelberger in 2000. Their work critically engages with a number of issues/behaviours specific to cross-cultures and consumer culture. AIP develop their projects independently and in collaboration with other artists on the intersection of installation, video and performance art. Such hybrid productions, created in-between art genres of experimental dance and theatre, visual arts, music and performance art use new media/technology as a fusing and transmitting element to deliver and increase the insemination of an artistic message to a wider and global audience. AIP force an interaction with the public on different levels, experimenting with the Art’s functioning outside its traditional spaces and its contemporary transitoriness. Recent artistic projects develop under the term Existence Theatre, which AIP created in 2012 to define a specific stream of their work. The work process becomes a creative challenge, while AIP modify and pursue their work-methods to activate new forms of artistic expression. Transient performance acts are based on self-written text/dialogue and/or minimal dramatic instructions, which are filmed in front of the action-documenting camera and in private/intimate environment. Existence Theatre involves the term of existence not solely in its time-based meaning of here and now (questioning the non-repeatable authenticity of performance art from a present-day perspective) but also addresses the various facets of existence through a philosophical understanding of identity and individualism in a globalised and therefore multicultural society. The positive impact of Multiculturalism, acclaimed by AIP, to help extend the worldview, does lead to confronting situations in daily life. Cultural differences lead to many problems within the social environment and need to be addressed in a sensible way. In all their work AIP point out that globalisation and pluralism invite to create synergies in-between people, countries and cultures, rather than leading into an antagonism, driven by fear and resistance.