Traveling Artists' Roles: an Asynchronous Email Interview

Andriotis, Konstantinos

doi:10.3727/108354220x15959901296171

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“…The review also highlights the rather limited number of studies involving artists as participants in the research process. Although artists can be seen as creative producers of artistic spaces and artifacts with a tourism potential (Andriotis, 2021), our research finds that only 43 articles (less than 7%) of all published work on art and tourism discuss or refer to artists. From this perspective, little is known about the supply side of art tourism.…”

Section: Discussion: the Way Forwardmentioning

confidence: 78%

Art and tourism – a systematic review of the literature

Valek

Mura

2022

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to present a review of published academic work on art and tourism. A distinction between papers researching tourism and mentioning art just as one of tourism activities and papers covering “art tourism” specifically is proposed. Design/methodology/approach The review is grounded on a content analysis of studies containing the words “art” and “tourism” published in the Scopus database. Moreover, to analyze papers specifically consisting of the term “art tourism” a theory‐context‐characteristics‐methods structure was used – the authors call these papers art–tourism-specific papers. Findings While the number of “art and tourism” papers has been increasing in the past 40 years, little is known about “art tourism” as an independent form of tourism. This study finds limited work on art tourists’ characteristics, preferences and behaviors as costumers. No art-based research and little research with visual representations was found. Artists are very rarely participants of art tourism research. Research limitations/implications Most research is conceptual, and little applied research can be identified. Importantly, besides synthesizing and critically assessing the current corpus of knowledge on art tourism, this review presents a final roadmap with directions for future research. One of the limitations of this review is that only studies included in the Scopus database and published in English were considered. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study provides the first comprehensive systematic review of published academic research on art and tourism in the past 40 years. The results of this study offer directions to future art tourism researchers.

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Section: Discussion: the Way Forwardmentioning

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Art and tourism – a systematic review of the literature

Valek

Mura

2022

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“…Thus, interviews are essential in this study in order to identify the operators' subjective beliefs, attitudes and personality traits. Additionally, the limitations of face-to-face data collection methods due to COVID-19 restrictions, the difficulty to access geographically dispersed respondents, as well as the call of Blackburn and Kovalainen (2009) for more critical and qualitative research approaches to entrepreneurship, resulted in the selection of the asynchronous email interview method (Andriotis, 2021;Kaushal and Srivastava, 2021;Ratislavová and Ratislav, 2014;Schiek and Ullrich, 2017). This method was also chosen because it allows further exchange of written information between the interviewees and the researchers.…”

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Artist residencies as specialist accommodation: cultural entrepreneurship during the COVID-19 pandemic

Andriotis

Paraskevaidis²

2022

IJCHM

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Purpose Artist residencies comprise a unique accommodation type and a form of cultural entrepreneurship which remains overlooked from a hospitality perspective. This exploratory study aims to examine the phenomenon of artist residencies as specialist accommodation, as well as their operators’ motives as cultural entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Creation theory is used to explore how artist residency operators create entrepreneurial opportunities. Design/methodology/approach Asynchronous email interviews were conducted with 20 artist residency operators from 18 countries. Purposive sampling was used to select interviewees and thematic analysis to analyze the primary data. Findings The results showed that with few exceptions, artist residencies address all criteria of specialist accommodation, and that social interactions among artists and operators are fundamental in running an artist residency. From a cultural entrepreneurship perspective, most of the operators declared that their priorities were to promote artistic creativity and cultural knowledge exchange, confirming the main elements of creation theory. Practical implications Managerial implications are discussed to enhance the resilience of artist residencies and strengthen their financial viability, as well as to support them to overcome the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Originality/value This study extends the hospitality literature by adding the artist residencies to the existing types of specialist accommodation. It also examines creation theory and concludes that artistic creativity and cultural networks are prominent in artist residency entrepreneurial activities.

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“…tourism development (e.g., Andriotis, 2021;Frost & Laing, 2017), typology of street art (murals) has tended to drop from tourism scholars research interest. This study comes to fill this gap, by operationalizing the art produced by traveling artists using as criteria the image of their mural and the narratives of their producers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These murals were painted by 21 traveling artists as a part of the Lakkos project, an initiative where foreign artists work together to upgrade one of the most neglected areas in the town of Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Arguably, although public art in Lakkos is not officially sponsored, Lakkos provides the ideal conditions for the investigation of this topic because currently is being transformed from a dilapidated and polluted area (Zaimakis, 2011), to a center of creative art and alternative leisure practices that attracts an increasing number of specific forms of art-motivated tourists, as well as traveling artists who add to the neighborhood's atmosphere through mural production (Andriotis, 2021). However, up to now Lakkos is not a tourism destination in itself and no guide gives walking tours to the public.…”

Section: Andriotismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a relatively cheap form of art, murals, defined as "pictures created by the application of paint upon a surface" (Frost & Laing, 2017, p. 27), are the most popular street art expressions. Although murals are often painted on the walls for reasons unrelated to tourism, such as to beautify a building and to enrich the material dimension of a city (Andriotis, 2021;Koster, 2008), many of them have become tourism assets for places constantly trying to be differentiated, generate value by appropriating and transforming the undervalued districts of cities to "live galleries," and bring intangible values, such as cultural promotion and community pride (Halsey & Pederick, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Typology of Art Produced by Traveling Artists: Art-led Regeneration of an Historic Urban Environment

Andriotis¹

2022

Tourism Culture & Communication

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Taking as a case the art-led regeneration of the derelict district of Lakkos in Heraklion town (Crete), the purpose of this exploratory study is to add to the knowledge of art produced by travelling artists as an important part of the town’s tourist offer by offering a rich contextual analysis of the mural images they produced and giving priority to their views. It adopts three data collection methods, photographic documentation (25 mural images), observations, and asynchronous email interviews with 21 traveling artists. By applying a typology in the main theme of each mural and by using travelling artists’ narratives three main groups of murals emerged, namely heritage-inspired, place-inspired and socially-inspired. The data collected are discussed in relation to the problems accrued from the gentrification of Lakkos through mural-based development. Due to limited past research, the typology that emerged from this study is only applicable to the case under study.

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Traveling Artists' Roles: an Asynchronous Email Interview

Cited by 4 publications

References 38 publications

Art and tourism – a systematic review of the literature

Art and tourism – a systematic review of the literature

Artist residencies as specialist accommodation: cultural entrepreneurship during the COVID-19 pandemic

Typology of Art Produced by Traveling Artists: Art-led Regeneration of an Historic Urban Environment

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