{"id":5129,"date":"2024-12-11T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T09:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2024-12-21T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T12:36:51","slug":"in-between-and-right-in-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/in-between-and-right-in-the-middle","title":{"rendered":"In between and right in the middle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;In-between&#8221;&nbsp;refers&nbsp;to&nbsp;a&nbsp;presence&nbsp;that&nbsp;acts&nbsp;as&nbsp;separating&nbsp;and&nbsp;interrupting&nbsp;in&nbsp;space&nbsp;and&nbsp;time. This is how it appears when the gaze is directed&nbsp;from the outside in. However, if it is directed from the inside out, it is not the divorce that is thematized, but the boundaries that open up. What&nbsp;both views have in common is binarity, the neat separation of inside and outside, and an exclusion already inherent in this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But other things are not only conceivable, they are also possible. The <a href=\"http:\/\/pastoraltheologie.org\/veranstaltungen\/jubilaeumskongress-2024\/ (\u00f6ffnet in neuem Tab)\">jubilee congress of pastoral theology<\/a> in Berlin in September 2024\u00a0addressed precisely these possibilities and their implementation in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dazwischen \u2013Fraktalwerk Werkstattschau auf dem Pastorale Kongress 2024\" width=\"747\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WLRVqNgeWRU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Tertium datur<\/mark><br>\u201cIn-between\u201d does not only address divisive issues. Sitting between all the chairs also means being able to make connections &#8211; being in the&nbsp;middle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are right in the middle\u201d &#8211; this is how Tom Sojer begins his reflection on the evening event at the congress. \u201cWe\u201d are all the participants of&nbsp;the congress who decided to take up the challenge of the meeting of pastoral theology and art with curiosity. As interested spectators in the&nbsp;first part &#8211; as participants in the second.<br>Between art and non-art, together with artists and non-artists &#8211; doing your own thing and doing things together: <a href=\"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/projekte\">that is the way Fraktalwerk&nbsp;works<\/a>. Spectators are never \u2018just\u2019 spectators. By looking, they participate in the processes that take place before their eyes and ears.&nbsp;Watching and listening are (in the best case) not passive processes, they require an active involvement in what is happening. This&nbsp;distinguishes being there from just being there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly the congress participants find themselves in between &#8211; between their congress on pastoral theology and the art of the fractal work.&nbsp;As intense as the discussions were during the congress, they have now left their comfort zone of theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Embracing the opportunity<\/mark><br>At the end of the first part, they are even asked to go one step further. Into the part of the room that lay unplayed behind their backs for an&nbsp;hour. To participate with their bodies and all their senses in the exploration of another intermediate space: the one between two people&nbsp;moving together &#8211; and the one between the couples moving with and among each other. If possible, without stepping on each other&#8217;s toes.&nbsp;Sensing this in-between space, bridging it with arms and touching hands, in joyful togetherness &#8211; this also thematises the in-between as well&nbsp;as the in-between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With each step, the participants not only enter a different space &#8211; they also step into a different time. Stepping out of the chronology of the&nbsp;congress, they can seize the opportunity &#8211; in a different presence. 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