The project is a contribution to the comparative cultural sociology of contemporary European society. The aim of the research is to examine the role of festivals as sites of trans-national identifications and democratic debate. The project analyzes the way in which mixed or single-arts festivals constitute sites of cultural expression and performance of relevance for European identity-in-the-making and for the European public sphere. More specifically, the project objectives are to: explore how festivals use aesthetic forms to symbolize, represent and communicate social and political life (European / national / sub-national) from the perspective of different actors, including programme directors, funding promoters, performing artists and the audience; study the way in which festivals frame the discourse of identity in relation to arts with particular attention to the local / European and local / global interfaces as well as conundrum of difference (diversity) and similarity; analyze how festivals represent sites of competition for access to resources, status and power and how this competition impacts on debates about representation, openness and the public sphere. The project is coordinated by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences (ICCR), Vienna, and includes among its partners the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton and the Istituto Carlo Cattaneo Research Foundation, Bologna.
2007-10: “Euro-Festival: Art Festivals and the European Public Culture”, VII Programma Quadro “SSH-2007-5.2.2 – Creativity, Culture and Democracy”, coordinatore scientifico internazionale Liana Giorgi (Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences, Vienna)
GASPERONI, Giancarlo
2010
Abstract
The project is a contribution to the comparative cultural sociology of contemporary European society. The aim of the research is to examine the role of festivals as sites of trans-national identifications and democratic debate. The project analyzes the way in which mixed or single-arts festivals constitute sites of cultural expression and performance of relevance for European identity-in-the-making and for the European public sphere. More specifically, the project objectives are to: explore how festivals use aesthetic forms to symbolize, represent and communicate social and political life (European / national / sub-national) from the perspective of different actors, including programme directors, funding promoters, performing artists and the audience; study the way in which festivals frame the discourse of identity in relation to arts with particular attention to the local / European and local / global interfaces as well as conundrum of difference (diversity) and similarity; analyze how festivals represent sites of competition for access to resources, status and power and how this competition impacts on debates about representation, openness and the public sphere. The project is coordinated by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences (ICCR), Vienna, and includes among its partners the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton and the Istituto Carlo Cattaneo Research Foundation, Bologna.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
