Episode 5
Listen to Season 2, Episode 5 of The ICA Podcast! Featuring winner of the 2021 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Performance Art, Gavin Krastin.
Krastin invites us into the intimate Bindery theatre to re-experience his visceral and spectacular 2018 participatory performance, Yet to be Determined – a haunting, ceremonial meditation on vulnerability, connection, pain, personhood and transformation.
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Gavin Krastin, Yet to be Determined, 2018 ICA Live Art Festival. Photos by Xolani Tulumani.
Gavin Krastin is a South African performance artist working in live art to occupy and subvert notions of presentation and representation, and winner of the 2021 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Performance Art. His work spans the worlds of theatre, visual arts and contemporary performance, and his interests lie in the permeability and politics of the body’s representation, limitation and operation in alternative, layered spaces. Krastin’s practice is inspired by his immediate South African environment and one’s positionality and transgression in the history embedded in its shifting socio-political landscape within a global-local framework.
Gavin Krastin. Photo by Simon Pamphilon.
About The ICA Podcast
The Podcast – launched in July 2020 – emerged out of the ICA's 2019 publication Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa and extends the work begun by the book through conversations with the creators and curators of Live Art. The role of the Podcast has been particularly important in this time of the pandemic, when live performance has been difficult and sometimes impossible, but the intimacy and expansiveness of listening remains critical.
Season 1 looked at the body of work of 8 diverse artists. In Season 2, we're doing things a bit differently by offering each episode as a deep dive into a single performance:
We the Not-Not People! -Things done, not told. Inscribed, not written by Donna Kukama
Things We Lost in the Rainbow by Athi-Patra Ruga
Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations by Kopano Maroga
Qash-Qash by Nomcebisi Moyikwa
Yet to be Determined by Gavin Krastin
Fragments of Encounters by nomi blum
Body of Evidence by Jay Pather
Looking ahead
In Episode 6 we'll be speaking to visual and performance artist Athi-Patra Ruga. Join us then!
Gavin Krastin, Yet to be Determined, 2018 ICA Live Art Festival. Photo by Xolani Tulumani.