One morning Josef Ka woke from troubled dreams to find herself transformed, in her bed, into a beautiful elephant. ‘All my life I was dreaming about my own elephant. Since I was born in Siberia it was just a beautiful dream, so I decided to transform myself into my own elephant. Josef Ka makes this metamorphosis by destroying a number of large toy elephants while onstage. The project is about letting dreams come true – ‘and the price other creatures sometimes must pay for this.’Duration: 40 min .
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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