Performance
Gavin Krastin is a Cape Town based performance and live artist, theatre-maker, scenographer and performance educator. His interests lie in the permeability and politics of boundaries and their transgressions within the larger South African socio-political and spatial context, using live performance as means to occupy, subvert and challenge notions of presentation and representation. Krastin is inspired by his immediate South African environment and the histories and performative identities embedded in its shifting post-colonial and de-colonial socio-political climate. The social underpinnings and philosophies of space intrigue him and inspire a questioning and mythologizing of operational systems, behaviours, proximities and the politics of boundary-crossings and transgressions in his work.
Yet to be determined (2018)
An anti-narrative live art solo performance, performed at the National Arts Festival 2018 (Grahamstown, South Africa) and the ICA Live Art Festival 2018 (Cape Town, South Africa).
On seeing red and other fantasies (2015)
A seemingly nonsensical escape into a land of surreal images and arresting frivolity. On seeing red and other fantasies was performed at the National Arts Festival 2015 (Grahamstown, South Africa), the Dance Umbrella 2015 (Johannesburg, South Africa), and at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective 2015 (Cape Town, South Africa).
#omnomnom (2014)
Part performance, part dinner reservation and presented as a party, #omnomnom was performed at the National Arts Festival 2014 (Grahamstown, South Africa), in the Allan Webb Hall (Mother Cecile Memorial Hall), where it received a Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award.
Rough Musick (2013)
An anti-narrative live art solo performance, performed at the National Arts Festival 2018 (Grahamstown, South Africa) and the ICA Live Art Festival 2018 (Cape Town, South Africa).