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

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**What does the festival produce?**  Meanwhile, I presume, that to fully understand these questions we should understand 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 globaly 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 occurs in a short time and on limited space.   Festivals produce social relations, distinctions and hierarchy connected to them.  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 globaly thanks to the international film festival, which it hosts. On this example we can easily see that a cultural event produce a distinction. This distinction might be a crucial product of the cultural event 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 and produces social relations and hierarchy connected to mentioned distinctions. This is important while analyzing how cultural events work. Festivals produce social relations, distinctions and hierarchy connected to them.