PERFORMANCE
Yet to be determined (2018)
An anti-narrative live art solo performance, Yet to be determined is a visual and performative ceremonial meditation on the irrevocable nature of change and the roles we play in alternating conditions. It is a participatory ritual providing opportunity for the involvement of audience, who play a part in determining the journey of the work. It is a powerfully visceral performance calling into question presence, visibility and responsibility. It pushes the boundaries of what a body experiences when adorned as beautiful, but also when it endures pain and elicits empathy from proximal bodies. In the work the gap between beauty and pain is so narrow that one can glide from one to the other in a blink of an eye or an action in the wrist.
Yet to be determined was performed at the National Arts Festival 2018 (Grahamstown, South Africa) and the ICA Live Art Festival 2018 (Cape Town, South Africa).
Created and performed by Gavin Krastin.
Press:
Yet to be determined: Vulnerable violence | The Critter | Steve Kretzmann
Defying Boundaries, Excavating Histories, Revisiting Trauma | ICA website | Prof. Ketu H. Katrak
