ASCENSION // PROJECT BY JOSEF KA //SCHLOSS PRINZENDORF 2024

🔴 ASCENSION – a project by Josef Ka
Created especially for Pfingstfest 2024 at Schloss Prinzendorf.

The performance pays homage to Hermann Nitsch and Schloss Prinzendorf, with deep gratitude to Nitsch’s life and art, which have profoundly influenced Josef Ka’s artistic practice.

It was an honor and joy to be invited by Rita Nitsch to participate in the program of PFINGSTFEST 2024 in Austria.

For the past four years, Josef Ka has been involved with OM Theatre, founded by Hermann Nitsch, whose art first became a guiding influence many years ago in a small Siberian town.

More about Pfingstfest: https://www.nitsch.org/en/feast-of-pe…

🔴 Premiere of the video
Date: 20 September 2025 (Josef Ka’s Birthday)
Venue: Kunstraum Ewickgeitsgasse, Vienna

🔴 ASCENSION was performed by
Josef Ka in collaboration with
– Franciszek Araszkiewicz (electronics governed by brainwaves)
– Lena Perelman (lighting design consultant)

Actors: Michaela Hetzel, Oskar Klug, Elias Maria Zachl

Camera: Rolf Leitenbor, Thomas Gerhartl, Martin Gerhartl

Special thanks: Felix Wittibschlager, Katharina Wiesinger, Andreas Bauer, Mihail Ballauer, Josef Smutný

With gratitude to: Rita Nitsch, Martha M. Schildorfer, Mark Maher, Walter Ulreich

Team: Franciszek Araszkiewicz, Lena Perelman, Felix Wittibschlager, Michaela Hetzel, Oskar Klug, Elias Maria Zachl, Katharina Wiesinger, Walter Ulreich, Andreas Bauer, Mihail Ballauer, Josef Smutný

Photography: Mark Maher and Walter Ulreich

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Published by Josef Ka

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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. https://eskargoeskargo.com/

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