{"id":2163,"date":"2026-01-19T10:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/?page_id=2163"},"modified":"2026-01-19T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:10:58","slug":"siuolaikinis-karnavalas-kaip-bendruomenes-itraukianti-dalyvaujamojo-meno-forma-fluxus-festivalio-kaune-atvejis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/archyvas\/turinys-t-17\/siuolaikinis-karnavalas-kaip-bendruomenes-itraukianti-dalyvaujamojo-meno-forma-fluxus-festivalio-kaune-atvejis\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Carnival as a Community Engaging Participatory Art Form: the Case of the Fluxus Festival in Kaunas (Summary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R\u016bta Ma\u017eeikien\u0117 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/09_MIS-17__2025__Mazeikiene.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>(PDF)<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/09_MIS-17__2025__Mazeikiene.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53631\/MIS\/2025.17.9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article explores the contemporary urban carnival as a participatory art practice that engages local communities. The object of analysis is the Fluxus Festival carnival, held annually in Kaunas since 2018 as a community-based event inspired by the ideas and aesthetics of the Fluxus movement. The research is grounded in Mikhail Bakhtin\u2019s theory of carnival as well as in key concepts of participatory art developed by Fran\u00e7ois Matarasso and Claire Bishop. Using a qualitative case study approach, the article investigates whether the contemporary carnival can serve as an effective form of participatory art that fosters community involvement through collective creativity. The findings reveal that the Fluxus Festival carnival operates as a practice of collective artistic expression, in which playfulness, creative freedom, and social interaction intertwine \u2013 thus endowing the contemporary carnival with new social functions and highlighting its potential as a meaningful, community-engaging form of participatory art.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> contemporary carnival, participatory art, collective creativity, community engagement, Fluxus<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R\u016bta Ma\u017eeikien\u0117 (PDF) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53631\/MIS\/2025.17.9 This article explores the contemporary urban carnival as a participatory art practice that engages local communities. The object of analysis is the Fluxus Festival carnival, held annually in Kaunas since 2018 as a community-based event inspired by the ideas and aesthetics of the Fluxus movement. The research is grounded in Mikhail<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/archyvas\/turinys-t-17\/siuolaikinis-karnavalas-kaip-bendruomenes-itraukianti-dalyvaujamojo-meno-forma-fluxus-festivalio-kaune-atvejis\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2110,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2163\/revisions\/2165"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}