SUPERFAST: SERIES OF SUPERFAST PERFORMANCES // AUSTRIA – ITALY // 2020
Superfast is a series of video performances by Josef Ka made in various places all around the planet – primarily in contemporary art museums and galleries, and iconic cultural sites.
“I record my short, speeded-up dances in places I find interesting and inspiring. The speedy nature of the dances is an expression and result of the fact that I have only limited moments to perform because of the transgressive nature of my action. Each time my dance is different.”
Big gratitude to Mark Maher for supporting this project.
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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