NAMES // performance by Josef Ka in collaboration with Yrjänä Sauros (Rankka Gallery, Helsinki, March 2020) is connected to the Degenerate Art exhibition presented by the Nazis in Munich in 1937. The original show included more than 100 artists who were considered by the fascist regime to be “degenerate artists”. My performance was partly concerned with how time erases memory and names. It consisted of me painting the name of each of the original artists onto a series of small black squares positioned on the gallery floor. During the performance I met an unexpected reaction from one of the audience members: A seemingly intoxicated man decided to participate in my performance.
NAMES // PERFORMANCE BY JOSEF KA // RANKKA GALLERY // FINLAND 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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