SELECTED ARTISTS
Gavin Krastin
South African Gavin Krastin is an award winning performance artist, theatre-maker, choreographer and designer-scenographer with an interest in the body’s representation, limitation and operation in alternative, layered spaces.
His work is inspired by his immediate South African environment and the history embedded in its shifting socio-political climate. Apart from operating within the conventional theatre context, Krastin advocates the migration towards unconventional spaces where unknown risk factors are imminent. The social underpinnings and philosophies of space intrigue him and inspire a questioning of operational systems, thresholds, proximities and the politics of boundary-crossings and transgressions (and the myth making thereof) in his work. His approach offers opportunity for intimate engagement, immersive journeys and unique participatory involvement.
Krastin holds a Master of Arts Degree in choreography and performance and an undergraduate degree in drama and art history and visual cultures. The dove-tailing of these various influences is evident in his multidisciplinary works which constantly seek to interrogate space, choreograph the visual and augment the body-silhouette. He presents works at numerous festivals in South Africa and internationally, has lectured at Rhodes University and the University of Cape Town and has worked with the First Physical Theatre Company.