Gestão cultural: profissão em formação

Abstract

This study, entitled Cultural Management: a profession in formation, is aimed at analyzing issues relating to the creation of the field of Cultural Management in Belo Horizonte, since the 1980s. The main focus was to understand the differentiated processes involved in the formation of cultural managers, and in how they relate to professional paths, finally identifying what they need to know to be active in the labor market. In order to understand this process, we have identified several subjects who contributed to creating this profession, dividing them according to a time-based criterion 1980s, 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century. We held nine interviews, basically oral reports of professional lives, with cultural managers representing the three aforementioned generations. These managers were active professionally in the public, private and/or third sector. During our research, we discovered that antecedents (family, school and community), played a preponderant role in the process of artistic and cultural sensitization, and that this later influenced the choice to follow the path of cultural management. Among the generations analyzed, we identified two paths of entry for this professional field: the first is represented by those subjects who learned and reflected upon this occupation during their daily work. In the second, the subjects were already part of a much more structured and complex labor market, which led them to seek a more systematic and specific formation. Social recognition of the role of the cultural manager in the contemporary world of work continues to be a struggle for these professionals. The paths they followed were identified based on the diversity of their backgrounds. And it was during the process of creating the field of cultural management that the professional identity of the cultural manager was outlined, identifying the profile, abilities and knowledge of each as the collective references necessary for professional development and amplification of their possibilities.