man made skies - Jochen Traar | Art Protects You

projects the amount or mass that arises through peopleand/or materials is a strategic multiplication of the(single) artist in the collective, where it ultimatelybecomes impossible to differentiate between doublesand actors and/or audience. As its creator, Jochen Traardisappears behind this label that makes use of umbrellasand raincoats, protective glasses and foghorns in itsnumerous performance works. And even all alone with hisdoubles, as is the case in his works using fog, heproduces a vast here and now of mass.In 1996, as part of the “Musikprotokolle” of the“Steirischer Herbst” festival an intervention took place inwhich shopping bags were circulated autonomously. Onthese shopping bags the BILLA supermarket chain logo“BILLA heute denkt an morgen” (BILLA today thinks abouttomorrow) was altered to read: “LABIL heute denk anmorgen” (LABILE today, think about tomorrow), thusBILLA’s corporate identity and jingle were being attackeddann frag ich etwasprage ich etwas