A queer feast of memories
Using archives in festival research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12341880 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Pacella (0000-0003-0012-8090, University of South Australia), Stuart Richard (0000-0002-9307-5858, University of South Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 117-133 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Continuum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1030-4312 • E-ISSN: 1469-3666 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10304312.2024.2385660 |
| OpenAlex | W4401193005 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Founded in 1997 by arts and community workers, the Feast Festival in Adelaide is one of the major LGBTQIA+ festivals held in Australia. 2022 marked the 25th year of the Feast Festival and, as such, was an opportunity to reflect upon the importance of community-driven festivals, especially those that explicitly services and advocates for social and cultural minorities. Researching this queer history required multimodal strategies. We interviewed past participants, organizers and performers, which resulted in a short documentary film that was exhibited as part of Feast's 25th programme. This project has also been supported by extensive archival research. We investigated the role that archives play in research and in documenting the history of a community arts festival, and how archives can actively contribute to the research process at various stages of data collection and creative artefact creation. Further, we explored the festival organizers' careful engagement with both open-access and curatorial approaches to festival management, including engaging with the South Australian LGBTQIA+ community to encourage participation and develop special events for the programme
Art · Community engagement · Library science · Media studies · Political science · Public relations · Queer · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Gender Studies · History · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
How to Make Art at the End of the World
LGBTQ Film Festivals
Youth, Music and Creative Cultures
Comradery and the Arts
The Queer Film Festival
Origin stories and the shaping of the community-based archives
Fire, pestilence and the extractive economy
Carnivals for elites? The cultural politics of arts festivals
Precarious cultural work
Doing Sensory Ethnography
An Archive of Feelings
Moderately Queer Programming at an Established LGBTQ Film Festival
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |