An young artist's biographical notes: process of socialization and individualization

Abstract

This article presents reflections on the process of socialization and individualization, through Eduardo's biographical experiences. He is a young man who identifies himself as an enterprising plural artist and resident of a peripheral urban region. His experiences as a young man, social educator, entrepreneur and artist intertwine his biographical becoming. Family, school and professional experiences are analyzed from a transversal perspective, since the constitution of this young person as an individual is committed to a multiplicity of heterogeneous, fluid and tensioned socializing processes. This reflection is the result of a research with narrative interviews and monitoring of his online experience in social networks. The biographical specifics sought to apprehend the memory of the experience, the uniqueness of hypotheses, the facts and interpretations that the young man gave to his professionalization in art. The posts and narratives on the internet also fulfilled this purpose, since the various events of his artistic performance were digitally told, exhibited, photographed, that is, there are fragments of an online autobiography on the web. Eduardo's unique experience reveals an entrepreneurial youth individualization mode with strong reference to the symbolic and expressive dimensions of the arts in general and music in particular.