BIRTHDAY CHOIR BY JOSEF KA AND THE GHOSTS // ROSEKILL ARTFARM // USA 2023
I was born at midnight on the 20th of September in Siberia. Every year I celebrate this moment, wherever I am.
On September 20th, 2023, I was lucky to be at RoseKill Art Farm (run by Gill and Hoke, as part of a project curated by Cai Qing). I invited all the artists in residence to join the celebration and tied them to my naked body with ropes.
Whenever I moved in a black spin by the fireplace, it became a signal for the audience to make sound. Afterward, I took my gong and walked into the night forest, playing the number of my years. Then the coyotes joined my sound with their howling…
It felt as if all of America came to celebrate under the full moon, together with the ghosts of my favorite people.
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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