We continued work on the tracks and created some more,” says Jaroslav Rudiš. The director of both productions was Alexander Riemenschneider, who also produced Amerika and participated on some of the lyrics. We have already released two theater-musical forms of The Castle there. “Amerika is based on songs we wrote for a theater adaptation in German in Bremen in 2017. The band focused on the songs that included a lot more electronics. The band made sure that the album wasn’t just a theater record. The twelve songs on the album “Amerika” offers a significant transformation from the previous album, Zámek (i.e. Kafka Band is currently touring Germany, where they are going to play at a prestigious international book fair in Leipzig. The band has also made a music video for which you need special glasses to get into the virtual reality. As a seven-member band with the writer Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír 99 as frontmen, they got inspired by Franz Kafka’s fragment of the same name. Kafka Band presents its new album called “Amerika”. O'Kane has also produced an extensive series of small acrylic paintings derived from a mixture of sources inspired by kafka's novel, including images culled from books and the internet, taking us even further afield from any notion of precisely recorded reality.Kafka Band Offers Amerika Full of Contradictions A number of these snapshots have also been excerpted from this sequence and are presented as lone images, inviting a more contemplative form of address on the viewer's part.

In keeping with this preference for imaginative projection over recorded experience AKA, the video is prefaced by a cautionary epigraph from the critic Jonathan Culler: 'Things are never expected to be real rather things are read as signs of themselves, idealized and often frustrated.' There follows a dizzying sequence of static snapshots, which takes the viewer on a rollercoaster ride from the heart of America's great cities to the breathtaking expanses of its desert wildernesses. Famously, Franz Kafka relied on secondary source material when writing his novel, Amerika, as he never actually visited the USA.

Eamon O'Kane's richly productive project AKA: After Kafka's Amerika has generated a profusion of art works in a range of media that includes painting, photography and video.

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