Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In this era of globalization, people have more opportunities to meet many ethnic groups in their daily lives whether it is in schools, in the workplace, or even in the private sector or in government. Interacting with people from other countries can enhance our knowledge of cultural diversity and provide us with an international perspective. There are many ways of enhancing cultural understanding such as attending international festivals. While research on festivals is fast growing, study on visitors’ attitudes toward diverse cultures is relatively unexplored. This paper used a visitor attitude scale, a modified M-GUDS-S, to investigate visitors’ behavioral, cognitive, and/or affective components of diversity attitudes. The research was conducted at the 2014 Indy International Festival and focused on measuring visitation frequency, stay-time at the event, similar event participation, cultural interest, and overseas travel experience contributing to any observed differences on visitors’ attitudes. Also, the visitors’ intention to travel overseas after attending this festival was investigated. A total of 195 visitors was surveyed on site with 176 providing usable data. The findings suggest that international festivals play an important role in improving visitors’ awareness, appreciation, and acceptance of diverse cultures. Specifically, visitation frequency, the time spent at the event, and personal interest in cultures have significant influence on attitudes.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:50:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EDILENE TRIGUEIRO MENDONCA.pdf: 7786847 bytes, checksum: 19966fbcd930a0af0692e719aafe8a31 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-04-19 / This study analyzes the International Festival of Movies and Environmental Video, in special time the partner-environmental impacts, of him advindos, for the local community of the City of Goiás, headquarters of the event. Although it is understood that is it aims at him/it to discuss the maintainable development, looking for to reinforce the conscience for better relationship man/nature, it is verified to be of essential importance that the planning and accomplishment of the event, once the same brings great movement to the municipal district, demonstrate concern with the preservation of the environment, and of the cultural goods, for the which it was granted to the city the title of the humanity's cultural patrimony. Of the point of view of the environmental sustentantabilidade, the research search to identify the local development it is ruled in a maintainable tourism, being considered that the area represents great tourist attractiveness in the State, especially, when of the accomplishment of the event. The verification of the proportionate tourist phenomenon for the accomplishment of the it is oportunizou the elaboration of a diagnosis of the current situation. In that procedure they were identified administration problems, evidencing the need to evaluate the planning conduct and accomplishment of that event as well as the local involvement to configure an efficient maintainable development. / Este estudo busca analisar o Festival Internacional de Cinema e Vídeo Ambiental (FICA), especificamente os impactos sócio-ambientais dele advindos para a comunidade local da Cidade de Goiás, sede do evento. Embora se compreenda que o FICA objetive discutir o desenvolvimento sustentável, buscando reforçar a consciência para melhor relação homem/natureza, verifica-se ser de importância fundamental que o seu planejamento e realização, uma vez que o mesmo traz grande movimentação ao município, demonstre preocupação com a preservação do meio ambiente, e dos bens culturais, pelos quais se concedeu à cidade o título de patrimônio cultural da humanidade. Do ponto de vista da sustentantabilidade ambiental, a pesquisa busca identificar se o desenvolvimento local pauta-se em um turismo sustentável, considerando-se que a região representa grande atratividade turística no Estado, em especial, quando da realização do evento. A verificação do fenômeno turístico proporcionado pela realização do FICA oportunizou a elaboração de um diagnóstico da atual situação. Nesse procedimento foram identificados problemas de gestão, evidenciando a necessidade de se avaliar a conduta de planejamento e realização do Festival, bem como o envolvimento local para se configurar um desenvolvimento sustentável eficiente.

How to create dance archives as ‘meaningful’ and ‘attractive’ tools for new creation? In 2013, Ong Keng Sen (Singapore International Festival of Arts) together with The Saison Foundation in Tokyo, Japan, called to life a project on archiving dance, which subsequently became the Archive Box Project. In the following years, it was realized in three phases oscillating between mediation, collaborative research and artistic practice. Seven participating Japanese artists, who each created an archive of their own works, developed individual, often contrary concepts of the archiving process.

Continuous Curatorial Conversations is a practice-led exploration of conversation, both as a medium and as a tool for capturing supplementary histories of the curatorial. The primary question of this research project is how the medium of conversation can be explored to write supplementary histories of the curatorial which thus far have been omitted from extant publications on the subject. Three important sub questions guide this exploration. First, what is and has been the role of conversation within the curatorial? What are the possibilities and limitations within the medium of conversation? What roles do conviviality and hospitality play within the process of conversation? This thesis reflects upon a series of curated projects that explore the sp/pl/ace for curatorial conversation and also reviews a collection of one-to-one recorded conversations conducted by the author, including conversations with Alfredo Cramerotti, Hedwig Fijen, Mel Gooding, William Furlong and Sarah Lowndes. Sites of fieldwork include: the 54th Venice Biennale; Manifesta 8, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art; and Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012. Through these projects and related recordings it unpicks the norms and possibilities of what and when one can record on the subject of the curatorial. The hypothesis of this study is that a great deal of curatorial activity is locked up in conversation, yet a disproportion makes it to the pages of the history of the field. Furthermore, in its clean transcribed form it misrepresents the fragility and nuance of the original exchange. The theoretical context of this research looks at Nicolas Bourriaud’s notion of Relational Aesthetics, the writing of Maria Lind and Paul O’Neill, with a focus on Audio Arts. A new methodology relating to curatorial conversation and its recording has therefore been identified as ‘critical conviviality’. The writing relating to Continuous Curatorial Conversations research takes the form of four books. The book ‘An Introduction’ comprises the PhD thesis and sits next to a bespoke online platform www.continuous-curatorial-conversations.org which hosts a selection of audio recordings collated during the research process. The books ‘Continuous’, ‘Curatorial’, and ‘Conversations’ unpack the lineage and context of Alexandra C.M. Ross’s practice and projects conducted during her research and are to be read in no strict order. The new knowledge resulting from this thesis and relating practice is the attention to the subtleties of conversation and its capture as it relates to the instigation, recording and presentation of semi-private matters in semi-public contexts.

Over the course of the last three decades, it has become popular practice to evaluate tourism events like cultural festivals in financial terms, through the use of economic impact studies. This can be attributed at least in part to the notable growth in the number of festivals being held globally and, as such, a higher level of competition between festivals for the limited funding which is available. Economic impact studies, and the resultant findings, have thus become powerful tools for the lobbying of sponsorship, and it has become increasingly important that the impact calculations be as accurate as possible, so as to effectively allocate both government and private resources to projects which will be of the greatest benefit to the host region. The allocation of funding is especially vital in an area like the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, which is faced with many financial difficulties. The allocation of public funds to an event like the National Arts Festival, which is hosted in a relatively wealthy part of the province, might be weighed against initiatives which directly benefit the poorer parts of the region. Although it is acknowledged that the benefits which are felt by the host community of a cultural event go beyond that of the financial, it is often on this basis that festivals are most easily compared. The primary goal of the thesis was to analyse the various forms of methodological bias which can exist in the economic impact analyses (EIA) associated with cultural events. Theoretical considerations were discussed, specifically regarding economic impact as a method of measuring value. Various forms of bias (including data collection, the calculation of visitor numbers, multipliers, defining the area of interest, inclusion of visitor spending, and accounting for benefits only, not costs) are put into a real-life context, through the investigation of economic impact studies conducted on three selected South African festivals (the Volksblad, the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstfees, and the National Arts Festival), and one international festival (the Edinburgh Festival). An in-depth comparison of two separate studies conducted at the National Arts Festival (NAF) in 2004 (by Antrobus and Snowball) and 2005 (by Saayman et al.) was made, focussing on the manner in which the economic impact was calculated. Having considered the common forms of bias, and assessing several possible reasons for the difference of approximately twenty million Rand in the advertised economic impacts, it was concluded that, most likely, the miscalculation of visitor numbers was the cause. This was confirmed when the Antrobus and Saayman methods were applied to the 2006 NAF data, and noting that the economic impact figures arrived at were strikingly similar. As such, it is advisable that extreme caution be taken when calculating visitor numbers, as they can significantly influence the outcome of an economic impact study. It is recommended that each study should also have transparent checks in place, regarding the key calculation figures, to ensure that less scrupulous researchers are not as easily able to succumb to the pressure event sponsors might impose to produce inflated impact values.