Jean- Louis Fabiani
Emmanuel Ethis
The Festival and the city: the example of Avignon
This article presents a historical analysis of the constitution
of the Avignon Festival as a significant cultural event in France.
This Festival is considered to be unique due to its exemplarity
in what concerns the processes of cultural decentralization and
democratization affirmed by French cultural policy. The main objective
of the analysis is to give an account of the ambiguities present
in the definition of its audience. Based on empirical research
in progress since 1996, the article highlights some of the limits
of the dominant approaches in the French tradition of studies
of audiences for culture. At the same time, it illustrates the
possibilities of an innovative approach, which takes into account
the effects associated with the history of events and the local
contexts in which they take place.
Mari Paz Balibrea
Memory and public space in post-industrial Barcelona
This article addresses the role played by culture, as
a factor of economic regeneration and investment attraction, in
the reconversion of post-industrial Barcelona. The author discusses
the implications of this orientation of urban-cultural policies
in what concerns the conception and organization of the city's
public space and the conditions of production of a local collective
memory. The analysis of the museological project of the ruins
discovered in the old Mercat del Born leads to a more complex
exploration of the involvement of different types of actors in
the processes of production of public space and collective memory.
Giving special emphasis to the interests of the local community
and to the presence of immigrant populations, the author proposes
a more plural, negotiated, and dynamic conception of the production
of the city's public space.
André Brito Correia
Theater outside theaters. Dramatic art in prisons, parks,
and neighborhoods
Contemporary theater often takes place in non-conventional
spaces, which were not conceived or built to accommodate this
kind of event. This article uses a sociological approach to study
theater outside theaters, discussing the relationship between
theatrical agents and nontheatrical spaces in order to explore
what happens to dramatic art in such cases. To this end, the author
analyzes three artistic productions that took place in Coimbra
in 2003: Só entra se vier às fatias (performed in a prison); Goblin
Market L&L (performed in the Botanical Garden), and Quando Estiver
Lá em Cima Estará Completamente à Vontade! (performed in the neighborhood
of Relvinha). The article discusses the way in which the physical
and material features of space were used as integral elements
of each performance, that is, in interaction with its setting,
text, light and sound.
Helena Santos
About audiences for culture: an illustrated reflection
on a Portuguese case
This article analyzes the creation and production of
an opera by the Educational Department of the Casa da Música
from the perspective of work done with the active involvement
of participants recruited in two public housing projects of the
city of Oporto. The aim is to problematize this unprecedented
experiment in the Portuguese context, as well as to relate it
to some of the structural transformations of contemporary societies
which put into question the analyses on audiences for culture.
Dossier
Simmel: Aesthetics and the City
Carlos Fortuna
Simmel and the Historical Italian Cities - An Introdution
Georg Simmel
Rome. An Aesthetic Analysis
Florence
Venice
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