STREET ARTISTS IN EUROPE - Fondazione Fitzcarraldo

ANNEX 1: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH
1.1. The main evaluation questions
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Street Artists in Europe
The study analyses the situation of street arts in Europe, taking into account, as far as possible,
the situation in all 27 Member States. This evaluative study was structured around the following
questions:
• Definition: the idea of the “street”
• Forms of artistic productions
• Intellectual and policy legitimisation
• Traditions and modernity in street arts
• Public/urban space and regulations
• The street arts publics
• The diffusion of street shows
• Means of production
• European co-operation and mobility of artists
This categorisation is purely methodological to enable a systematic and rapid survey. It does not
prelude aspects being relevant in more than one category at the same time. The following
aspects have been investigated:
• The traditions of street arts in the different Member States and the most common type of
professional street artists;
• The level of recognition of street arts as an art form;
• The range of art forms and the type of projects that are mainly practiced in the different
Member States and the degree and forms of international co-operation, of co-production
and diffusion of productions, the circulation of performances, as well as networks and
partnerships on the European level;
• Specific information on the audience for street arts, on their social structure and
development, and on the possibility of reaching sections of the public who are not used
to attending theatre or other performances; doing so, the democratic, accessible character
and potential of social inclusion;
• Important measures needed to facilitate the work of street artists, especially as regards
residencies, facilities to develop and rehearse the work, funding systems, administrative
procedures and licensing regulations, the organisational infrastructure, as well as
professional development and training opportunities;
• The mobility of street artists and, if street artists perform in other European countries,
where they mainly come from and go to, in which contexts they perform abroad, and
which are the main problems and disincentives they encounter when planning to perform
in other countries; the administrative or other barriers that refrain street artists from
performing abroad.
PE 375.307