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What is cultural mediation? If we had to sum it up, we might say it’s what stands between visitors and the place they’re visiting — the artworks they’re discovering. But it’s much more than that.
The terminology can be blurry, and it’s often hard to understand what it really involves. Between “guide,” “audience development manager,” “mediation officer,” the roles are many — and the definitions vary. Yet mediation plays a key role in creating the emotions. And not only during the visit, as people often assume. Mediation starts long before — and it can continue long after.
Cultural mediation path really begins with a desire to make culture accessible.
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Highlights of a workshop held at Artspace, Sydney, 26 August 2019.
Widely recognised as an invaluable tool by institutions across Europe, cultural mediation generally refers to the process of gaining and negotiating knowledge about the arts and social or scientific phenomena through exchange, reaction and creative response. Cultural mediators work within organisations to improve the quality of the public’s visit to the museum or gallery and to broaden the possible ways of experiencing and interacting with an object and its context.