THE CRACK // PERFORMANCE BY JOSEF KA // CONTRABASS ALESSANDRO VICARD // MONTLEARTISTS // VIENNA 2024
THE CRACK: performance by Josef Ka, contrabass Alessandro Vicard, gong Leonardo D’Alessandro, curators – Katrin Sturm // Carina List, creator Alexander Ertler. Sommerfest @montleartists Vienna 2024
This work, by Josef Ka, was created during a performance in June 2024 at the garden of the art residency @montleartist in Vienna. The dimensions of the piece are 1.64 × 6 meters. The work is dedicated to the anniversary (1964 – 2024) of Günter Brus’s performance “Selbstbemalung” (Self-Portrait).
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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