STREET ARTISTS IN EUROPE - Fondazione Fitzcarraldo

Street Artists in Europe
purchased in the majority of cases, by the local authorities: the local municipality and the local
police.
If street artists are often welcome in the urban space, their work is made difficult by a host of
restrictive regulations (public safety, noise pollution, pyrotechnics, etc.) that differ from one
country to another, sometimes from one city to another:
• Large number of contacts who are likely to supply all the authorisations required for the
smooth functioning of the event.
• Complex procedures (payment for administrative steps, time-consuming, lack of
accompaniment by the technical departments of the regional administrations, customs
and security barriers with artistic equipment, etc.).
• Taking into account the different artistic approaches in their concrete executions
(diversion of circulation, fitting out of spaces, storage of equipment, etc.).
The authorities, technicians and artists are working in proximity, but they are not always aware
of the rights and duties of his contacts. There are no reference documents that bring together all
the practical information for artistic events to be held under the best conditions in the urban
space.
On the other hand, it would be very interesting to develop interdisciplinary research on the
challenges and the place of Art in the public space in Europe.
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