{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE260101688"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"DE260101688","attributes":{"code":"DE260101688","administering-organisation":"The University of Queensland","announcement-administering-organisation":"The University of Queensland","scheme-name":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2026,"years-funded":3,"project-start-date":"2026-07-01","anticipated-end-date":"2029-06-30","grant-summary":"Mapping the International Arts Festival Network of Australia and Aotearoa. This project examines Australian and New Zealand arts festival programming to reveal trends and patterns in touring circuits and how these can be strengthened to better support the nations' cultural health. At a time when festivals’ economic viability is in question, this research examines long-term trends via innovative digital tools to determine how festival networks can better support access to arts at home while promoting Australian culture abroad. Expected outcomes include a monograph, industry report, symposium, and additional scholarly publications. Potential benefits include a fuller socio-cultural and economic understanding of historical trends in funding and programming to inform future strategic decisions by festival organisers.","funding-current":508461.00,"funding-at-announcement":504494,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Sarah","familyName":"Thomasson","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0001-6982-7151 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Sarah","familyName":"Thomasson","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0001-6982-7151 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"The University of Queensland","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"QLD"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"The University of Queensland","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"QLD"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"3604","name":"Performing Arts","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"360403","name":"Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"130104","name":"The Performing Arts","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"280122","name":"Expanding Knowledge In Creative Arts and Writing Studies","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["New Zealand"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"Each Australian and New Zealand capital city hosts a flagship international arts festival within a portfolio of arts and sporting events, yet no comparison of how these organisations operate in different jurisdictions, their cultural impact, or how they are funded across all levels of government exists. Nor is it understood how festivals facilitate a national repertoire of performances that travels around each country and beyond and how important this is for local arts ecologies. This project will produce the first scholarly study of Australian and New Zealand arts festivals and how they collaborate to make diverse contemporary performance practices accessible to audiences.\n\nThis project will examine these festivals' programming over time to reveal trends within touring patterns and how these facilitate local artists and companies to tour internationally by linking to global networks. It will further investigate touring patterns of Indigenous performance within this network to show how the post-war European festival model has been radically reoriented through its encounter with arts practices and cultures of spectatorship among Australian First Nations, Maori, and Pasifika communities. Adopting the findings and recommendations from this study will benefit Australia and New Zealand's cultural development by showing how festival organisers, all levels of government, artists and companies can leverage festival networks to grow arts infrastructures and audiences in each city."}}}