PERFORMANCE

Nil (2017)

The notion of a raw, non-cultural body is an impossibility. An assemblage of performative actions, Nil pursues a sense of undoing in order to achieve a state of nothingness, but paradoxically generates a multitude of content and presence in its undoing and self-erasure. The performance queers and reconstitutes, and at times ridicules, notions of a white cultural body in South Africa; where conceptions of identity, so encumbered by representation, are eroded. Treading silliness and perversion, while undercut with a deep sense of civic concern, Nil agitates considerations of privilege, eroticism and patriotism as cultural capital in a regulated social economy.

Nil was performed at the National Arts Festival 2017 (Grahamstown, South Africa).

Created and performed by Gavin Krastin.

Press:

Black or white, it’s all dark | The Critter | Mike Loewe

Talk politics, privilege, and eroticism with Gavin Krastin | Cue Media | Chitalu Mwanakatwe

 

Gavin Krastin's Nil (2017). Photograph by Mia van der Merwe.
Gavin Krastin's Nil (2017). Photograph by Mia van der Merwe.
Gavin Krastin's Nil (2017). Photograph by Mia van der Merwe.
Gavin Krastin's Nil (2017). Photograph by Mia van der Merwe.
Gavin Krastin's Nil (2017). Photograph by Mia van der Merwe.
Gavin Krastin's Nil (2017). Photograph by Mia van der Merwe.
Gavin Krastin's Nil (2017). Photograph by Mia van der Merwe.
Gavin Krastin's Nil (2017). Photograph by Mia van der Merwe.
Gavin Krastin's Nil (2017). Photograph by Mia van der Merwe.
Gavin Krastin's Nil (2017). Photograph by Mia van der Merwe.
Gavin Krastin's Nil (2017). Photograph by Mia van der Merwe.
Gavin Krastin's Nil (2017). Photograph by Mia van der Merwe.
Gavin Krastin's Nil (2017). Photograph by Mia van der Merwe.
Gavin Krastin's Nil (2017). Photograph by Mia van der Merwe.

 

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