PERFORMANCE

Trophy (2015)

Conceived as a graveyard of partially exhumed dead dreams and ambitions, Trophy is a reflection on achievement and stagnation, on being chosen and being ‘benched’. The work was partially influenced by the removal and defacement of colonial monuments and statues in South Africa at the time and how these public colonial memorials are read as trophies of particular ideological strongholds. Indulging the word play of ‘trophy’ as a suffix denoting degeneration, the performance simultaneously subverts these trophy-memorials and representations of a white South African masculinity as withering and atrophying.

Trophy was performed at the Cape Town Fringe Festival 2015 (Cape Town, South Africa).

Created and choreographed-directed by Gavin Krastin.

Performed by Gavin Krastin, Alan Parker and Kai Luke Brummer.

Press:

A festival guide to the Cape Town Fringe | Between 10 and 5 | Gabrielle Pinto

Cape Town Fringe has tasty offerings | Weekend Argus | Robyn Cohen

Uneasy Packaging | Critter | Steve Kretzmann

 

gavin krastin with shining gold face and a cake on his head with a red candle on the top
Gavin Krastin's 'Trophy' concept image (2015). Photograph by Alan Parker.
gavin krastin broken and bent, hiding behind a broken chair during performance of 'trophy, south africa
Gavin Krastin's 'Trophy' (2015). Photograph by Robin Elam-Rye (Betalife Productions).
alan parker wrapped around a chair in dim light during performance of 'trophy', south africa
Gavin Krastin's 'Trophy' (2015). Photograph by Robin Elam-Rye (Betalife Productions).
alan parker attached to chair and gavin krastin wrapped in a plastic bag during performance of 'trophy', south africa
Gavin Krastin's 'Trophy' (2015). Photograph by Robin Elam-Rye (Betalife Productions).
alan parker flying from a chair during a performance of 'trophy, south africa
Gavin Krastin's 'Trophy' (2015). Photograph by Robin Elam-Rye (Betalife Productions).
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