Live Art, Performance and Scenography
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-political landscape within a global-local framework.
“Gavin Krastin has always straddled theatre and dance with work that is full of beauty, but not always easy to stomach.” – City Press
Performance
Rather than using performance as a means of escaping the politics of the body, Gavin uses liveness as a means to occupy and unveil the body politic in order to challenge and subvert notions of presentation and representation.
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Scenography
In conversation with his performance practice is his work as a scenographer and designer for live performance. Apart from his own performance-design, Gavin often collaborates as scenographer for his long-time partner, choreographer and performer Alan Parker.
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