STREET ARTISTS IN EUROPE - Fondazione Fitzcarraldo

Street Artists in Europe
promoters have of work being made outside of their national borders other issues concerned
with international touring – language-based performance, travel costs, safety requirements the
number of national/international companies hosted and from which countries how
festivals/programmers choose artists and companies to invite:
• Number of countries visited per year;
• Number of hosting structures in each country visited;
• Number of performances (in the country of origin and abroad) during the season, in each
country visited, in each hosting structure.
1.3.7. Methodological elements for Mobility and co-operation
A questionnaire on mobility of street artists and co-operation had been compiled by Fondazione
Fitzcarraldo and Judith Gabay-Neisse and sent out by HorsLesMurs to directors and members of
“historic” street show networks and key organisations in order to:
• ascertain individual understanding of mobility and co-operation issues;
• establish stakeholders’ participation in trans-national mobility and co-operation projects;
• overview realities, limits and potentials of networking;
• ascertain knowledge of funding and grants opportunities;
• establish the problematic aspects that complicate street arts works and exchanges at the
European level;
• point out the non-artistic skills required to managers, directors and to performers, if they
want to gain a truly international dimension.
Fondazione Fitzcarraldo used existing European studies and reports (see Bibliography).
1.4. Strengths and weaknesses of the methodological approach
1.4.1. Strengths
• Data obtained by interviews and questionnaires were cross-referenced; a real internal
consistency appears;
• The survey succeeded to investigate in the different European countries the evaluative
questions (see 1.1);
• This is the first survey on Street Artists in Europe and the method employed can be
repeated;
• Street arts professionals relayed HorsLesMurs requests of information on their sector
and the milieu reacted very quickly providing useful data;
• The sleeping partner was always reachable to give details on the work he was expecting.
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