Cultural mediations and aesthetic contaminations

Abstract

Mediation, a word-valise, full of meanings. Affiliate with another word - culture, and it has a chest of meanings that permeate by various concepts and actions. Awareness of the diversity and richness of multiple possible looks to this tangled and complex content, worked through us to pinch some of its dimensions. Perhaps the heart of this proposition is connected to the pursuit of goals: Why we use mediation? To teach art or to propose meaningful encounters with her? Could be considered mediation as an aesthetic contamination? These are concerns that cross the Research Group "Cultural Mediation: aesthetic contaminations and provocations". In this article, it is part of "poetic medications" to start a silent conversation with the reader. Virus, memes and contamination untie the cords that move the research and are revealed in the book building "think together cultural mediation: interlacing roping experiences and concepts" (2014). It also presents a reading of key terms present in the index tab that have a way of thinking about cultural measurement as action rather than function. A warning to the reader: "Shake before you read."