MY BODY BELONGS TO THE STATE IV // PERFORMANCE IN COLLABORATION WITH GLORIA DAMIJAN // VIENNA PARALLEL 2021 // SEMMELWEIS CLINIC

MY BODY BELONGS TO THE STATE IV, performance by Josef Ka in collaboration with a composer and media artist Gloria Damijan.

The 4th part of my ongoing project My Body Belongs To The State is devoted to punitive and torturing medicine, which is still used in different countries of the world. The main inspiration is linked to Ignaz Semmelweis story, whose name was given to the clinic nearby the Art Fair stage. Semmelweis was forced to spend his last days in the asylum in Lazarettgasse, Vienna. There he died within 2 weeks as a result of an extreme abuse from the medical staff side.

I am grateful to Claudia Schumann and Franciszek Araszkiewicz for inviting me to be the part of the project SCHUMANN 02

I am grateful to an amazing artist Franz Graf for an amazing photodocumentation of my performance

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