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**What is a festival production process?**
Meanwhile, I presume, that to fully understand these questions we should examine what exactly means 'festival production', how this production occurs, what are its means and output. Without defining this process and its borders we will not be able to outline the field of our research.
To spot a product of a cultural event, we may consider two towns of the same population: Cannes and Inowrocław. While Inowrocław is hardly known in Poland, the name of Cannes is well recognized globally thanks to the international film festival, which it hosts. On this example we can easily see that a cultural event produce a distinction. This particular distinction might be its crucial product from the point of view of global economy, although from the point of view of the field of culture it is just a side effect. The main product of cultural event is a social relation. The cultural event itself IS a dens and intensive network of social interactions, which means that big number of interactions occur in a short time and on limited space.
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.
