Description: Gavin Krastin is a South African performance artist and live artist whose interests lie in the permeability politics of boundaries and their transgressions.
About Artist Statement Curriculum Vitae Curatorial Arcade 2019: Call for applications (closed) Performance 2018 Yet to be determined 2017 Nil Collapsing into representation 2016 Pig Headed 2015 Trophy On seeing red and other fantasies 2014 #omnomnom Epoxy I Live Here 2013 Rough Musick 2012 Discharge The Misses/Missus 2011 Sub Scenography Ghostdance for one (2017) Sacre for one (2016) Detritus for one (2015) Cellardoor (2012) Retrospective – altered daily (2011) Press & Publications General Performance-speci
Gavin Krastin is a South African performance artist and live artist, scenographer and arts educator. He is Cape Town based and his work spans the worlds of theatre, visual arts and contemporary performance. Gavin's interests lie in the permeability and politics of the body’s representation, limitation and operation in alternative, layered spaces. His practice is inspired by his immediate South African environment and one’s positionality and transgression in the history embedded in its shifting socio-politic
“ Gavin Krastin has always straddled theatre and dance with work that is full of beauty, but not always easy to stomach.” – City Press