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Article

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Cultural and economic geography, Interdisciplinary, Arts

Publication Details

Understanding the influence of place on festival making and artistic production in the local urban festival context

Published in a special issue on festival cities in the Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19407963.2022.2033250?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Abstract

Recent decades have seen a dramatic increase in research output on arts festivals and cultural events, and a growing focus on the role festivals play in negotiating and constructing meanings of place. However, little attention has been paid to how place shapes the process of festival making and artistic production. This paper attempts to address this shortcoming by examining the extent to which place matters to the production of festival activity and asks: how does place influence festival making and artistic production in a local arts festival context? The study is part of ongoing qualitative research into the Five Lamps Arts Festival, a local urban festival in Dublin’s North Inner-City and employs a mixed methods approach. Findings indicate that processes of festival making and artistic production are permeated by the social, cultural, and physical dimensions of place, thereby revealing the potent and mutually inter-dependent relationship between place and festivals.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2022.2033250

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