A worldwide platform for circus arts research is online

Circus Arts Research Platform (CARP) is a free resource website for academic research and studies related to the circus arts.

Published online at www.CircusArtsResearchPlatform.com, the platform stimulates and strengthens collaboration between scholars and professionals interested in circus arts studies across all academic disciplines. It offers to the academic community an international directory of researchers and an international, accessible bibliography of academic publications related to circus arts studies. It also gives information on current academic research in circus arts to a wider public.

The platform collects and maps universities and research institutions with circus-related research programs or research chairs; institutions offering residencies to scholars, as well as relevant collections in circus art.

At the time of the launch in August 2018, the platform contains more than 120 profiles of researchers, references to 2000 academic publications in all languages and a world-wide map of more than 200 significant circus collections in archives, museums, libraries and resource centres. The references in the bibliography have been collected from the library collections of the Centre national des arts du Cirque (France), the École Nationale de Cirque (Canada) and from more than 100 academic databases all over the world. The international bibliography and its thematic bibliographies will be updated on regular bases.

In addition, CARP offers an overview of links to institutions, networks and other information resources in circus arts. The News & Events page gives information on the latest activities, conference calls and publications.

The Circus Arts Research Platform is an initiative of Centre national des arts du Cirque (FR), Center for Circus Arts Research, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer of the National Circus School in Montreal (CA), Circuscentrum (BE) and CircusInfo Finland (FI) in collaboration with researchers all over the world, for widening the reachability of knowledge regarding academic research in circus arts.

Get Hooked on CARP at circusartsresearchplatform.com/

Unpack the Arts (2012-2014)

Unpack the Arts was a European project that provides residencies for cultural journalists in the context of twelve major festivals programming contemporary circus.

Unpack the Arts is a European project funded with support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. The project leader was Circuscentrum (Flemish information center for circus in Gent). The project partners were nine European circus organisations, among them CircusInfo Finland.

The goal of the project was to facilitate the circulation of knowledge and experience, to develop the critical discourses of its participants, and to further the role of the media within the circus arts and contemporary society. Cultural journalists, critics and chief editors from any form of media were asked to apply for the project recidences in four open calls. The 12 recidensies have taken place on circus festivals from August 2012 to February 2014. Altogether 120 journalists from all over Europe will participate in the project.

At the end of their residency, each participant in the Unpack the Arts project deliverd an article of 2,000 words. These articles were published both on the native language and as an English translation on the Unpack The Arts site.

CircusInfo Finland hosted the Unpack the Arts Helsinki residency in context of Cirko contemporary circus festival in May 2013.

For more information please visit: https://www.circuscentrum.be/en/2015/03/22/unpack-the-arts/