Here, Hungarian elements become both ingredients and metaphors: paprika, salt, water, flour, and a Second War helmet filled with stones — all gathered in a pot shaped from the local soil. Beneath a tree, a Hungarian boy uses an old-school mechanical mixer as both instrument and tool, playing music while mixing everything together — ingredients, people, memory, and the invisible currents flowing between them.
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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