ROSES OF SARAJEVO // ANTIWAR PERFORMANCE/INSTALLATION // SARAJEVO 2022
anti-war performance/installation
ROSES OF SARAJEVO
anti-war performance/installation by Josef Ka
photography: Ajša Hadžić
video: Dzejla Salihovic
special thanks to Zoran Milutinovic
and Semir Smajić
Sarajevo 1992 – 2022
Sarajevo Roses or Roses of Sarajevo is the name of the craters left by fragments of artillery shells on the streets of the city of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. The craters on the asphalt in places where people died from shells were filled not with new asphalt, but with tar with the addition of plastic and red paint. Left in memory of numerous civilian casualties during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992-1995.
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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