UnfoldingKafkaFestival2024
Unfolding Kafka is a biennial festival for contemporary performing arts in Bangkok. It was founded by the Thai choreographer Jitti Chompee. He was inspired to establish a festival platform for contemporary dance in Thailand. The 5th edition of the festival, which not only celebrates its ten-year anniversary but also commemorates the centennial anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death, will be the most ambitious yet.
The festival embarks upon an exploration of Franz Kafka’s grotesque universe, which blurs the line between the human and non-human, and interweaves different modes of reflection on Otherness through humanized creatures. Building upon existing scholarship and artistic creations, the festival will investigate Kafka’s work through multiple forms of abstract and conceptual performance art, challenging Thai audiences to respond to unconventional and provocative interpretations of Kafka’s works. The enduring fascination with Kafka’s body of work, style and mysterious characters is a vast resource for continued investigation and interpretation.
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Franz Kafka died in Kierling, Austriain 1924 (aged 40).
“I DREAM OF A GRAVE, DEEP AND NARROW, WHERE WE COULD CLASP EACH OTHER IN OUR ARMS AS WITH CLAMPS, AND I WOULD HIDE MY FACE IN YOU AND YOU WOULD HIDE YOUR FACE IN ME, AND NOBODY WOULD EVER SEE US ANYMORE.”
—THE CASTLE (1926)
