Abstract
The article proposes that mediation is a practice of accessibility in cultural spaces. The main argument focuses on the concept that accessibility, beyond what is provided in the technical manuals, is an action to be taken WITH people with disabilities, and not just for them. More than considering people with disabilities as targets for accessibility, it is relevant to take them as experts, as co-authors of mediation practices. In the wake of the discussion on accessibility in these terms, the article proposes that the narratives collected in meetings between people with and without disabilities are narratives of resistance, that is, narratives that challenge the hegemonic conceptions of disability as lack. In this sense, the text affirms that accessibility is also accomplished in meetings with people with disabilities, affirming its experimental character, which is not defined in the sense of being provisional, but rather in the one proposed by Hélio Oiticica: a work of art is to be danced, embodied, lived, experienced. Finally, the work indicates that accessibility, rather than being provided by access to information about art works, is effected through an aesthetic experience that is sensitive, accessed and promoted by mediation practices that bring together people with and without disabilities.
Mediation; Accessibility; Disability; Aesthetic Experience