Rethinking the Aesthetic Geographies of Multicultural Festivals: A Nietzschean Perspective

Kingsbury, Paul

doi:10.1080/00045608.2015.1096761

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“…The festival can be seen as a lived experience of multiculturalism. Recently, Kingsbury (2016) has pointed to the aesthetic 'justification', which refers to 'art's capacity to infuse human experiences with arousing affects, constructive meanings, and affirmative power, as a useful tool for understanding multicultural festivals. Following Nietzsche, the aesthetic can be understood as constitutive of what people can do, sense and imagine in the interplay of the two artistic forces: Apollonian and Dionysian principles and drives.…”

Section: Multicultural Festivalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In recent years many authors have been arguing for a performative approach to festivals (Duffy 2005, Frost 2015, Kingsbury 2016, Ryan and Wollan 2013, Vannini et al 2010. write that '[a] performative framework requires abandoning the familiar distinction between 'bodies' and 'space' and embracing an alternative set of concepts including 'fold', 'mobility', and 'embodiment'.…”

Section: Embodiment and Sensuous Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Festival as Embodied Encounters: OnKulturhavnin Copenhagen

Simonsen

Koefoed

Neergaard

2017

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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The paper is part of a research project on Paradoxical spaces: Encountering the Other in public space which explores how cultural difference is experienced, practiced and negotiated in public space. Specifically, this paper explores the yearly 'multicultural' festival Kulturhavn taking place along the harbour of Copenhagen. Multicultural festivals can be seen as places for ongoing identity negotiations, where individuals and groups define meaningful concepts of identity along with notions of exclusion (Duffy 2005). In the paper, we adopt a performative approach abandoning the distinction between bodies and space and embracing ideas of 'embodiment' and 'rhythm'. We explore participant engagement emphasizing bodily practices as well as sensuous experiences, but also differential processes and orientalist images produced in, and through, encounters. Among the wide range of activities at the festival, we focus on three: food; dance; and taekwondo. The methods in use are participant observation, including use of the researcher body, and different kinds of interviews.

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Section: Multicultural Festivalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Embodiment and Sensuous Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Festival as Embodied Encounters: OnKulturhavnin Copenhagen

Simonsen

Koefoed

Neergaard

2017

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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“…However, rather than difference being negotiated to promote harmony and tolerance, here engagements with difference through the performing arts are deeply contested (cf. Kingsbury 2015Kingsbury , 2016. Contemporary Cambodian dance as a felt mode of aesthetics thus emerges through multidirectional networks rather than a west-other binary, such that performances exceed the sum of their parts.…”

Section: Interweaving Performance Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A deeper engagement with the intercultural opens up these geographical analyses to encompass a wider set of spatial fields. It simultaneously builds upon an emerging concern with how aesthetics (particularly through performing arts practices such as singing, dancing, and costume-making) can negotiate social and cultural difference to promote tolerance and inclusiveness (Kingsbury, 2015(Kingsbury, , 2016. Interculturalism therefore offers a rich vein for geographical research on the performing arts to consider the varied ways that aesthetics manifest, interact and intersect, whilst attending to the spatial politics of crosscultural encounters.…”

Section: Intercultural Aestheticsmentioning

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Advancing the geographies of the performing arts

Rogers

2017

Progress in Human Geography

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Performance has become an analytical lens for examining a range of geographical phenomena. However, research specifically on the geographies of the performing arts has not kept pace with this broader field. Here, I argue for a deeper engagement with the theories and practices of the performing arts, particularly as research on creativity and the geohumanities gathers momentum. The article focuses on three areas where literatures from theatre and performance studies can expand our understanding of what ‘the geographies of the performing arts’ might be: intercultural aesthetics, migrant mobilities, and geopolitics. It examines how these come together in contemporary Cambodian dance.

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‘You feel you’re not alone’: how multicultural festivals foster social sustainability through multiple psychological sense of community

Hassanli

Walters

Williamson

2020

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Recognizing the limited research on social aspects of sustainability in event studies, this paper seeks to understand how multicultural festivals promote and deliver social sustainability through the facilitation of multiple psychological sense of community for attendees. By considering refugees and ethnic minority immigrants, it also addresses the gap at the nexus of events and marginalization for under-researched groups in critical event studies. Focusing on the New Beginnings Festival, an arts and culture festival for migrant communities in Sydney, Australia, we sought to gain a better understanding by addressing this knowledge gap. A qualitative research approach was applied with data collected through participant observation, in-the-moment conversations, and semi-structured interviews. Applying the theoretical framework of Psychological Sense of Community as well as the concept of Multiple Psychological Sense of Community, we present the Festival Multiple Psychological Sense of Community (FMPSOC) model with three interconnected levels of community facilitated by the festival: Ethnic, Migrant and Mainstream. The model enables critical event scholars, event organizers and local governments alike to understand how multicultural festivals contribute to the social sustainability of their communities. It also provides a basis for evaluating this contribution and identifying areas for improvement.

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Rethinking the Aesthetic Geographies of Multicultural Festivals: A Nietzschean Perspective

Cited by 7 publications

References 38 publications

Festival as Embodied Encounters: OnKulturhavnin Copenhagen

Festival as Embodied Encounters: OnKulturhavnin Copenhagen

Advancing the geographies of the performing arts

‘You feel you’re not alone’: how multicultural festivals foster social sustainability through multiple psychological sense of community

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