Kafka [incarcerated]

16-20 September 2021

Patarei Fortress

Feel free to come at any time.

Feel free to leave at any time.

Feel free to come again.

Using the work of Franz Kafka as a starting point, we (an international team of artists) have created an interdisciplinary performance installation in an area spanning 12 rooms of Patarei fortress. By placing the fictional world of Franz Kafka inside the walls of Patarei, we hope to create a poetic space that dissolves the boundary between fiction and reality and tests the limits of human endurance: The performance artist Agnes Oberauer will perform continuously for 24 hours inside the walls of Patarei. She will then repeat the same sequence of actions in 12 hours, 6 hours, 3 hours...until time has completely dissolved and continuation is no longer possible.

Entry to this interdisciplinary experience will be free. We encourage you to come more than once and take part in this experience by dropping in multiple times over the four day period. The performance will also be made available via livestream.

We will open our prison doors during the following times:

CYCLE 1: Thursday, 16.09. 2021 06:00 - Friday, 17.09.2021 06:00 (24 hours)

CYCLE 2: Saturday, 18.09.2021 06:00 - 18.00 (12 hours)

CYCLE 3: Sunday, 19.09.2021 06:00 - 12:00 (6 hours)

CYCLE 4: Sunday, 19.09.2021 18:00-21:00 (3 hours)

CYCLE 5: Monday, 20.09.2021 0:00- 01:30 (1,5 hours)

CYCLE 6: Monday, 20.09.2021 03:00-03:45 (45 minutes)

CYCLE 7: Monday , 20.09.2021 04:30-04:52,5 (22,5 minutes)

*from this moment the doors stay open until time has collapsed

Kafka[incarcerated] is a hommage to the work of Franz Kafka and the memories held within the walls of Patarei. It is a once-in-a-lifetime event inspired by and created for the city of Tallinn.

For further information please visit: instantgratificationcollective.com

The performance will also be made available via livestream.
Created by:
Agnes Oberauer (Performance Artist)
Julia B.Nowikowa (Visual Artist)
Oliver Kulpsoo ( Light Artist)
Mikk-Mait Kivi ( Video Artist)
Onnam / Juan Fran Cabrera (Landscape Sound Design)

Special Thanks to Hanna Junti (Movement Coaching) and Anne Türnpu