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Damian Ibn Salem – Questions

Which topic turns up again and again in your artistic activities?

The only aspect which all the fields I work in really share is music itself. However, some questions accompany my work all the time. How much does the musical tradition of the past 300 years bear on us. What out of this is truly wealth? Why is there so much which keeps us from adopting an open, modern handling of this tradition?

What do you seek to achieve with your arts education activities?

We often let our opinion of artistic work be influenced by numbers of clicks, suggestions or assessments. I would look forward to contributing to a firmer self-consciousness in order to experience culture with inquisitiveness, and without reservations.

What, in your view, is the essence of an artistic intervention in arts education?

I like Joseph Beuys’ claim that “Every human is an artist”. For arts education activities, this means that there is no need to teach people art. Instead, we can create and experience art together.