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1.3.3. Institutional and intellectual recognition
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A questionnaire on intellectual and institutional recognition of street arts had been compiled by
CRCMD and Judith Gabay-Neisse and sent out by HorsLesMurs. Interviews to critics,
researchers and organisations had been carried out by Joanna Ostrowska and Juliusz Tyska.
Aims were to:
• Investigate the existence of an “institutional” or common definition of street arts in the
different State members;
• Evaluate the level of intellectual and political recognition in the European Union;
• Estimate the involvement of public/private institutions in street arts development and
structuring;
• Collect, as far as they exist, the national statistics for street arts funding and grants.
Primary data collected has been compared by the one collected during the preliminary survey
on public policies in favour of street arts and circus arts in Europe, carried out last summer by
CRCMD for HorsLesMurs/Circostrada network. Results were compared to main national and
European studies on cultural policies, using existing tools as Ericarts, etc.
1.3.4. Street arts and artists in the urban space: urban development and regulation
A questionnaire on street arts relations with urban space (social, economical, urban aspects) had
been compiled by Krisztina Keresztély and Judith Gabay-Neisse and sent out by HorsLesMurs.
Interviews to organisations and artists had been carried out by Krisztina Keresztély and Levente
Polyák.
The study is based on the analysis of existing studies and questionnaires and interviews
conducted towards representatives of some important street art events all across Europe. As
questionnaires and interviews were based on the same guideline of questions proposed by the
author, all responses are easy to compare. Therefore the analyses refer to the two sources in the
same time. Aims were to investigate:
• Rules and permissions to organise open air events;
• Positions and integrations of street arts events in the urban space;
• The localisation of street arts events;
• Spatial effects, social effects, cultural organisational effects and economic effects;
• Sustainability of street arts events.
1.3.5. Street arts publics
Questions elaborated by CRCMD on existing data on publics had been integrated in the
questionnaire on aesthetics forms, publics, means of production and diffusion (compiled by
HorsLesMurs and Judith Gabay-Neisse and sent out by HorsLesMurs) to key organisations in
order to collect existing data on this issue.
Due to the evaluation calendar (during winter 2006), it wasn’t be possible to undertake a field
survey in the framework of festivals and events (generally in summer time). Nevertheless, the
solid results of the Eunetstar survey had served as a basis of comparison with the results
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