Abstract

BARROSO CRUZ, Cristina  and  VOHLGEMUTH, Laurence. Artistic and Cultural Mediation: What Professional Profile?. RLEC/LJCS [online]. 2023, vol.10, n.1, pp.31-48.  Epub June 30, 2023. ISSN 2184-0458.  https://doi.org/10.21814/rlec.4257.

The emergence of a new professional group to meet the challenges posed by the changing role and place of artists and arts in current societies, as well as the relationship between the public(s) and the various artistic and cultural manifestations, has prompted us to try to (a) understand how some potential employers, trainers and graduates see the role of the artistic and cultural mediator; (b) identify the definition(s) they propose of artistic and cultural mediation; and (c) identify the knowledge and skills they consider necessary for this professional exercise. A brief literature review (Arnaud, 2018; Henry, 2014; Lussier, 2015; Mörsch & Holland, 2012) contributes to a better definition of the concept of artistic and cultural mediation that reconciles the rationales of the democratisation of culture and cultural democracy, highlighting, among other things, the purposes that can be pursued. Drawing on a specific context of the degree in artistic and cultural mediation of the Lisbon School of Education, graduates, teachers and cooperating professionals who supervise the trainees of this degree were engaged in focus groups. The respondents provide definitions of artistic and cultural mediation with educational, social, cultural, investigative, political and economic dimensions, a wide range of knowledge and skills necessary for an intervention in this area, and various roles played. We conclude with the importance of pursuing research to better circumscribe a domain of specific knowledge and the field of intervention as conceptual for artistic and cultural mediation.

Keywords : artistic and cultural mediation; professional profile; citizenship; cultural democracy; democratisation of culture.

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