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ART PROTECTS YOU Jochen Traar. the local Jochen Traar transforms the former sacred space of the Burgkapelle into a place of secular encounter. It has been converted into a public space (accessible directly from the street) equipped with seating and a small library with publications on diverse topics in the field of "self-help" in the broadest sense and ambiguously advertised as "the local", referring on the one hand to pub or premises, and on the other to local residents. The latter interpretation relates the title to the content of the programme in the Burgkapelle, which offers a series of lectures on a variety of life situations, parallel with and as a part of Jochen Traar's exhibition at the MMKK. With their expertise, the lecturers, all either local or at least with regional associations, represent one of the particular advantages of the region, which is the main focus. Qualities which escape public notice in everyday life obscured by the headlines of the day, are visualised and manifested. Traar's specific and familiar field is his work in the social environment, intervention and actual projects as experimental procedures. He conveys the idea and the strategy as input and provides possibilities which can be either further developed or else refused, in each case leading the process towards diverse results with varying expressive force. At the same time, the museum is made accessible to new social content and is shown as a place of social encounter and or discourse. The task of art and the artist as well as the institution are self-critically examined, questioned and perhaps even redefined. |
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