Community and Artist Support as Process
Central to the RESONANS festival’s circular model is its commitment to community and artist support. In traditional festival settings, artists may be seen as producers of isolated works, but within RESONANS, they are participants in an ongoing, evolving conversation. The circular framework integrates artists into the very fabric of the festival, where their participation extends beyond their performances. Artists are encouraged to revisit, reflect on, and redeploy previous work in new contexts, thus reinforcing the idea of sustainability through reuse and reinterpretation. This approach not only reduces the material and cognitive load on artists but also affirms the value of continuous artistic inquiry.
Audience engagement, likewise, is not a passive experience but an active component of the research process. The circularity of the festival model ensures that audience participation is reciprocal—rather than consuming art, they become co-creators in the festival’s unfolding narrative. The participatory nature of the festival, particularly through events like interactive sound installations or poetry performances, reconfigures the role of the audience as integral to the artistic process itself. This fluid exchange blurs the boundaries between observer and participant, artist and audience, and process and product.