Witold Kieńć edited What does the festival produce?.md  over 9 years ago

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Those interactions may take very different forms, from small talks on corridor, through group alcohol consumption to uproarious spree in VIP area of festival club. Artists lie in the center of network created by this interactions and they are surrounded by promoters, curators and head directors, who mediate interactions between them and politicians, businessmen and funders. Organizational and technical staff, volunteers and the audience in general fluctuates from the central point to peripheries, trying to find accurate place for themselves, which means a place that give this kind of benefits that they expect. Thus we may say that festivals (re)produce social relations, distinctions and hierarchy connected to them.  The cultural event is a stream of production and reproduction of social relations and, in fact, it consist of social relations. Specyphic characteristics of each particular festival, its 'atmosphere' is elaborated by all its participants, not only by this formally considered as staff.  What is more it might be created only thanks to existing social relations. Existing festivals are created by very borad social networks, while formal organizations 'coordinating' the process of its production is usually very lean.