Dallas Havoc is a performer, craftsperson & fabricator based in Los Angeles, CA.

Dallas (he/him) is an anti-disciplinary artist practicing sculptural object and costume making in craft: textiles, fiber, ceramics, woodworking, mold-making, and a wide variety of mixed media such as foams, resin, silicone, and found materials. He is a performer whose object-making is engaged in the larger field of his performance work. He works within the union of craft and performance; a craft that begs to be performed, of a performativity that serves its craft in time and place. His work exclaims: craft is by its nature, experience-based art. Objects, costumes, puppets and sets become new cultural devices. They offer a sensual, corporal mythology as the tactile magic of craft and its processes are transmuted into live experiences and memory.

Dallas works with a commitment to ethics of craft: storytelling, and honoring our root network. He dissects, restructures and queers narratives around labor, productivity, and identity with communal play, collaborative game, and ritual making.

Craft is all at once, devoted apprenticeship to technique, and meditative ground for experiment and radical play. Through his work, he is able to construct a self-referential feedback loop between material object and phenomenological experience. With play, games, and ritual, he upends outdated social structures, reveals the mechanization of human life inside the capital beast, and imagines ways we can reject participation. Through the ecstasy found in events of communion, we find new bonds and strengthen existing ones. He—we, invent new stories louder than old fatal ones. Through object oriented ontology he crafts the props and tools of new mythologies to re-enchant everyday life. Through radicalization of the body, the voice and the spirit in relationship to object, the natural world, social theatre and performance, we find new ways of being. We can be radical from dawn to dusk.