UNDER PRESSURE // PERFORMANCE/INSTALLATION // KUNSTLERHAUS // VIENNA AUGUST 2024
“Under Pressure”, a performance by Josef Ka, created for the opening of a major group exhibition Kostbar at Künstlerhaus Wien, curated by Tatjana Hardikov, on August 14, 2024.
The performance got inspiration from the exhibition’s central theme – PRECIOUS, the unique space of the venue, and my personal artistic experience.
I am deeply grateful to everyone involved in bringing this performance to life—curator Tatjana Hardikov, the dedicated team of Künstlerhaus: Peter Gmachl, Vinzent Cibulka, Mahdi Hasani, Leila Dizdarevic), Claudia Schumann, Walter Ulreich, Mark Maher.
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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