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Reconfiguring the public and the private: Noc-Noc arts festival, Guimaraes, Portugal

dc.contributor.authorSarmento, João
dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Marisa R.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-05T10:23:12Z
dc.date.available2018-01-01T01:30:13Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractIn the past decades many cities have experienced growing pressure to produce and stage cultural events of different sorts to promote themselves and improve economic development. Culture-led development often relies on significant public investment and major private-sector sponsoring. In the context of strained public finances and profound economic crisis in European peripheral countries, local community low-budget events that manage to create significant fluxes of visitors and visibility assume a particular relevance. This paper looks at the four editions (2011–2014) of Noc-Noc, an arts festival organized by a local association in the city of Guimarães, Portugal, which is based on creating transient spaces of culture by transforming numerous homes, commercial outlets and other buildings into ephemeral convivial and playful ‘public’ environments. By interviewing a sample of people who have hosted (sometimes doubling as artists) these transitory art performances and exhibitions, artists and the events’ organizers and by experiencing the four editions of the event and engaging in multiple informal conversations with the public, this paper attempts to discuss how urban citizens may disrupt the cleavages between public and private space permitting various transgressions, and unsettling the hegemonic condition of the city council as the patron of the large majority of events.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0969776416628595pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/9104
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationspt_PT
dc.subjectartpt_PT
dc.subjectcitiespt_PT
dc.subjecteventspt_PT
dc.subjectGuimarãespt_PT
dc.subjectNoc-Nocpt_PT
dc.subjectpost-politicalpt_PT
dc.subjectpublic/private spacespt_PT
dc.titleReconfiguring the public and the private: Noc-Noc arts festival, Guimaraes, Portugalpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage16pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage1pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleEuropean Urban and Regional Studiespt_PT
rcaap.rightsembargoedAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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