Sat, Oct 26
|Prestige Center for Performing Arts
I, Josef (12pm on Saturday 26 October)
An immersive multimedia experience based on Franz Kafka's The Trial at the Prestige Centre for Performing Arts.
Time & Location
Oct 26, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM GMT+5:30
Prestige Center for Performing Arts, (Close to Konanakunte Cross Metro Station) Silver Oak Plantation, 25, Mudalappa St, Anjanadri Layout, Konanakunte, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560062, India
About the event
Kaivalya Plays and Goethe-Institut New Delhi present
in collaboration with the Prestige Centre for Performing Arts
I, JOSEF
An immersive multimedia experience based on Franz Kafka's The Trial.
Book your tickets at bit.ly/ijosefpcpa
Dates and Times
Saturday 26th October, 12pm, 5pm, 6:30pm and 8pm
Sunday 27th October at 5pm, 6:30pm and 8pm
Content Details
45 Minutes, English. This show contains mentions of abuse, violence and death that may cause emotional distress.
Location: Rehearsal Room, Prestige Centre for Performing Arts, Silver Oak Plantation, 25, Mudalappa St, Anjanadri Layout, Konanakunte, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560062. Next to Konanakunte Cross Metro Station.
About The Experience
I, Josef is an immersive multimedia experience that invites the audience to slip into the shoes of Franz Kafka’s most well-known character who gets unexpectedly arrested and put on trial, for an unspecified crime.  This adaptation of Kafka’s Der Prozess (English: The Trial) is re-imagined through a unique first-person perspective narrative that immerses the listener into K’s world through binaural audio, which offers a three-dimensional immersive sound experience. Audiences are invited to enter a dark room and put on their headphones, as they step inside the world of Josef K and the many mysteries that await him. Presented by Kaivalya Plays in collaboration with the Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi under #100YearsKafka, celebrating the rich legacy of Franz Kafka and his work a hundred years after his death.
About Kaivalya Plays
Kaivalya Plays is a performing arts and production company led by Varoon P. Anand as its Artistic Director and Gaurav Singh Nijjer as its General Manager. Since 2012, they have worked consistently, been very noisy, and built transcultural associations across India and the world. Their artistic work includes original, devised theatre performance which are multilingual, interactive and hybrid, use technology and media on stage as well as are built using techniques of improvisational, documentary and physical theatre. Their training and educational programs span drama and performance, design, production, arts management and applied improvisation to areas like mental health, language learning, business skills and others. They’ve undertaken arts research projects such as the Safety in the Performing Arts in India (www.arts-safety.org) supported by the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), amongst others. They have received multiple artistic commissions and grants, such as EU MediaFutures Artist for Media grant, Goethe Institut’s Refunction and Gender Bender grants, amongst others. Their recent artistic work includes I, JOSEF (2024), ABSURDO (2023), Mining Hate (2023), Ollantay (2022), Lifeline 99 99 (2021), Luz Negra (2020) How To Disappear Completely and Never be Found (2020), Unravel (2019), amongst others. Most recently, they received the Creativity Pioneers Fund 2023 from the Moleskine Foundation.
About Goethe-Institut New Delhi
The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a worldwide presence. With 151 institutes in 98 countries, it promotes the German language abroad, fosters international cultural cooperation and conveys comprehensive information about Germany. For over seventy years, the Goethe-Institut has enabled international cultural exchange, improved access to the German language and supported the unimpeded development of culture and science.
About Prestige Centre for Performing Arts
The Prestige Srihari Khoday Centre for Performing Arts is a fully integrated arts hub with state-of-the-art amenities, including 1000+ seated Broadway theatre, a 500-capacity banquet hall, and a 500-seater open-air amphitheater, making it the most desirable community and social space in the city of Bengaluru, Karnataka.