my first performance in swimming pool was made some years ago in Moscow. i was totally alone surrounded by tons of water. i felt so much at home and i began singing my favorite decadent songs. some pictures were taken by Egr Nagaen. next time it was in Serbia. it was an abandoned and partly ruined swimming pool with a decaying dog next too. i was crying for that animal and swimming inside of that empty swimming pool as a beautiful memory of beautiful days. that time i just set the camera on the ladder. january 2020 Walter Ulreich invited me for photo/performative collaboration and it turned out that at the backyard he has an empty swimming pool. thus it was my 3rd performative swimming pool, full of joy and happiness.
SWIMMING POOL// JOSEF KA UND WALTER ULREICH// AUSTRIA WINTER 2020
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International performance, visual and sound artist Josef Ka 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. https://eskargoeskargo.com/ View all posts by Josef Ka
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