From indeterminacy to the reconsideration of cultural mediation: Ecosystem approach to professional practice
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https://doi.org/10.25757/invep.v14i2.373Keywords:
Public policies, Cultural organizations, Cultural mediation of art, Ecosystem, PublicsAbstract
Although cultural art mediators recognize themselves as making up a specific professional group and, despite their multiple structuring initiatives, recognition of their profession is struggling to occur. However, their presence in artistic and cultural structures is indisputable, as is their role within cultural policies.
Hybrid, the cultural mediation of art knows no single definition, nor stable circumscription of the disciplines it uses. Rather than a (de)limited professional activity, it covers a field of modular, plastic and unlimited professional activities. “Rather than a science, it forms a field of scientificities.1”
Therefore, how can we meet the challenge of establishing boundaries around a specific set of knowledge and skills, even though one of the characteristics of this professional activity is, precisely, to constantly modulate its contours, in depending on the situation? Wouldn’t the essential skill of this profession be precisely this ability to act in between2 ? Looking at the cultural mediation of art as an organic ecosystem augurs a possible recognition of this profession. In addition, it suggests other ways of considering the cultural mediation of art and audiences and, more generally, of considering public policies.
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