PERFORMANCE ART KILLS // PERFORMANCE AT KUNSTVEREIN KARNTEN // KLAGENFURT 2019
When I began my performance art activities, I knew very few places where I could perform. As a result, I started creating interventions in various galleries and museums. One of my first interventions took place in Paris at the Centre Pompidou, 2010, when I re-performed a piece inspired by a video projection on the wall.
A smaller intervention occurred in Klagenfurt 2019 when the museum was closed.
PERFORMANCE ART KILLS
performance Josef Ka video Alfred Woschitz
poster: image by Josef Ka
design by Anton Byzyaev
Kunstverein Kärnten 2019
Since 2020, I have also been working on a project The Corner.
“The Corner” is an ongoing project by Josef Ka aimed at raising questions about the process by which some art is deemed worthy of exhibition – and some is not. The artist standing in the corner of galleries, facing the wall, in which her works have never been shown in.
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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