STREET FESTIVAL AS AN EXAMPLE OF DOMESTIC PARTICIPATION IN CULTURE

Abstract

Domestic and privatized culture, in relation to that practiced in public space, is gaining more and more importance. Participants of cultural life, despite their respect for institutionalized culture, in practice prefer non-institutional forms of activity that they can provide themselves on their own. This article relates to Za Stodołami Street Festival, an informal cultural initiative organized by a group of neighbors. The research was of ethnographic character. Being a part of the event and analyzing it from the inside, the author adopted an emic research strategy. The objective of the study was to create a micromonography of the process of participation in culture within a neighborhood group and to distinguish features characterizing domestic participation in culture. The presented
reflections have been grounded in an interpretative paradigm. The data were gathered by means of participant observation, informal conversations and analysis of photographic materials. The study conducted allowed to distinguish several features characterizing domestic participation in culture,
such as: activity and co-participation of attendees in the creation of a particular event, openness to intergenerational relations, intergenerational transmission of values, orientation on building social relations and voluntary behavior. These features are somewhat in opposition to those characterized by institutionalized participation, and a completely different quality of experiencing culture emerges from them: not receiving, consuming and passive, but involved, active and creative.