We can watch living statues perform during the UFO Street Festival of Curiosities in Szamotuly, and street performances during the month-long Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Despite their diversity, street festivals have three things in common: street performances, urban space and many people and organisations preparing the festivals months in advance.
- What is the difference between an individual street performer and a festival performer?
- How does a street performance become a street festival?
- When are great events created in a beautiful way?
Model of managing artistic alternative organisation
Move the cursor on the animation below and see when artistic performances are created in a beautiful way!
PERFORMER
Alternative organisation
ORGANISER
You can find out more in the publications:
- Połeć, M. (2025). Street Performance and Alternative Organisation: Aesthetics, the Arts and Humanistic Management. New York – London: Routledge.
- Połeć, M. (2025). Vulnerability in the Polish streets: Gender and archetypes in street performances [w:] Gaggiotti, H. and Díaz-Carrión, I. A. (red.) Women, Organizations and Vulnerability: Global Archetypes, New York – London: Routledge, str. 196-206.
- Połeć, M. (2016). „Festiwale sztuki ulicznej: Przedmiot instytucjonalizacji i forma uspołeczniania miasta”. Zarządzanie Mediami, nr 4, t. 1.; s. 23-38.
