JOSEF KA MEETS AARON TERRY // PERFORMANCE // MOSCOW 2020 WINTER // JOSEF KA VERSION
Josef Ka:
It was Moscow. It was winter. Darkness all around. I arrived from Helsinki to spend some days in Moscow. My artistic friend Sergey Katran advised to visit the big group exhibition at Fabrika. By that time, I was totally bold and desperate. We had found a big glass jar of pickled tomatoes and I found a very good backdrop for a photo. The backdrop turned out to be Aaron’s art. Thus we met. I suggested to Aaron that we make a collaboration of some kind. Two days later, and one day before his departure we met for the second time. We made something strange and beautiful, deep and shallow, terrible and amazing. It took us around 3 hours. By the end I was cold, dirty with some bruises and scratches but totally happy. It was celebration of art and freedom with no borders and prejudices. Just a super short meeting of two artists from different planets. The experience brought two different worlds together and let them shine in a wonderful and weird dance. [22:43, 24.11.2020]
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.
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