“History of Simple Things” – a Cartography to Think about the Ethical and Political Dimension in the Practice of Artistic and Cultural Mediator in Processes of Subjectivation

• Main Author: Pardal, Adriana
• Publication Date: 2023
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: https://doi.org/10.34639/rpea.v12i1.206
• topic: Mediação Artística e Cultural; Emoção; Arte da Coexistência; Encontro; Artistic and Cultural Mediation; Emotion; Art of Coexistence; Encounter

“I love Art!”. To compose this gesture-emotion, expressed by a passionate child, during an artistic-educational workshop, pieces of various origins are assembled. There is what results from an art educator’s practice; there is what results from constant reading; there are conversations with friends; there is, in short, what comes from affection; from situations in the world lived. We propose a reflection on the autonomy and social responsibility of artistic and cultural mediators, and not an analysis. Moments are cut out, in which a listening-situation around emotion and the notion of “encounter” is assessed. In this interpretation, mediation outlines a “function”, which places in mutual relation the phenomena, their social manifestations and society and imposes a system of appeal to collective praxis, of ethical and dialogic reach. It has, in the end, not only to reveal and create a social space, in which it is instituted, but to make the object available to the time of fruition, representation and questioning.