Cultural Mediation as a Site of Resistance, Repair, and Radical Hospitality
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This article proposes cultural mediation in the performing arts as a critical and embodied practice rooted in an ethics of care. Drawing on over fifteen years of fieldwork as a cultural mediator, curator, and educator in Québec, the text challenges instrumental and extractive models of participation. It reframes mediation as a civic and artistic gesture that holds space for discomfort, slowness, and negotiation across difference. Positioned at the intersection of relational aesthetics, institutional critique, and affective labor, the article argues for a revaluation of mediators’ roles—not as peripheral facilitators, but as co-authors of meaning and experience. Through a lens of radical hospitality and micro-choreographies of relation, the piece advocates for sustainable working conditions, recognition of invisible labor, and the development of evaluative tools that honor the ephemeral and unmeasurable. Ultimately, it invites institutions to support mediation as a site of resistance, repair, and transformative civic imagination.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.014 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.107 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.014 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".