Degenerate Painting, a performance by Josef Ka in collaboration with experimental musician Yrjänä Sauros, is connected with the Nazi’s 1937 degenerate art exhibition in Munich.
Josef Ka states: “The Body is a measure of everything. In this performance my butoh choreography combined with the experimental sounds of a Saurofoni, a musical instrument invented by Sauros, to create a darkly beautiful degenerate painting ceremony”.
phc Rankka Gallery
Kelly B
Mark Maher
Rankka Gallery
Helsinki March 2020
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International performance, visual and sound artist Josef Ka’s blends richly varied influences – everything from Butoh dance to cinematic theory – with her decades of nomadic world travel to create bold, highly personal site-specific art.
Josef Ka’s themes range from investigating the place of the human body in contemporary reality to exploring the inner body as a representative system of our human and post human kind.
Her artistic practice often actively invites the audience inside a sort of private reverie, making it is a deeply participatory one; she actively engages with both her audiences and with a wide diversity of other experimental artists.
In addition to her own work, Josef Ka curates a regular series of events and exhibitions at her Helsinki underground space – Sauna Gallery – and teaches classes on the theory and practice of performance art. She is also the inventor of the WORST THEATRE and her yogic training system, KA-YOGA.
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