KAFKA KABARET // PERFORMANCE AT EXPERYMENT AND AUDIO ART FESTIVAL // POLAND 2024

I am really thrilled to announce that the project Kafka Kabaret, created by me in collaboration with Franciszek Araszkiewicz has been selected for the 32nd Audio Art Festival in Kraków, hosted by Hevre, CIME, PSeME, and the SME section.

We’re deeply grateful to everyone involved in making this happen.

KAFKA KABARET

project by Josef Ka @josefkartist – concept/performance and
Franciszek Araszkiewicz @araszkiewiczfranciszek – music

technical support:

Dariusz Mikołajczak
Daniel Adamczak
Radek Urbaniec

photo: Dorota Bulinska

director of the festival: Ireneusz Solarek

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.

video by Jesper Dalmose
poster by Josef Ka and Egr Nagaen

November 2024

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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