KAFKA KABARET // OPEN REHEARSAL // JULY 2024// EXPERYMENT FESTIVAL // POLAND

KAFKA KABARET

project by Josef Ka @josefkartist
music by Franciszek Araszkiewicz @araszkiewiczfranciszek

technical support:

Dariusz Mikołajczak
Daniel Adamczak
Radek Urbaniec

director of the festival: Ireneusz Solarek

photo: Dorota Bulińska

Experyment Festival @experymentfestval
Zbaszyn, Poland2024


KAFKA KABARET – Project Dedication to Franz Kafka’s 100th death Commemoration (1924-2024).
The project pays homage to this milestone, celebrating Kafka’s legacy through an exploration of absurdity.

This surreal experience takes place in a parallel reality, resembling a dream filled with inexpressible poetry and hallucinogenic visions.

Techniques include physical theater, interactive visual bodywork, butoh, swing and music. Electroacoustic music is regulated by real-time scanning of brainwave activity, electromagnetic fields and the iPad.

The first open rehearsal happened 15 July 2024 during Experyment Festival, Zbaszyn, Poland.

Recommended for viewers 18+.

THE FIRST REVIEW BY Katia Shahoika


THE SECOND REVIEW BY Magdalena Miś-Herbeć

And suddenly I am here, in the midst of a multitude of thoughts, chaotic neural connections. Somewhere next to, close to or a little further from myself. Or maybe I’m just dreaming? You keep me in this state, you sharpen my vision, bite after bite I begin to fill myself with you. I guess I need to smell you or ask what you had for breakfast. I feel like we’re talking…we’re screaming and being silent together. I feel your body temperature. From your tower you see me perfectly, you drip at my feet, I wander closer and closer. I open my mouth and you get under my skin. You don’t have to look at me, I know you can see me, I’m naked too… I like watching you suffer… do you think it’s good? I climb to you sitting, I dance my sorrows with you.
Do you feel like that too, and he and she sitting next to me? Keep telling me, loop us. Pull as hard as you want, I’m at the end of this rope and I see you. Thank you for the invitation.

Published by Josef Ka

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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/

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