Artist from Gran Canaria, based in Tenerife (Spain)
Crossed by hybrid trans-antidisciplinarity
Koset Talavera is an anti-disciplinary artist whose practice emerges from observation,
the body, and everyday experience.
They studied Drama at the Escuela de Actores de Canarias (Tenerife, 2018–2022) and completed a Master’s degree in Stage/Theatrical Creation at UC3M in Madrid (2023), directed by Juan Mayorga. They hold two distinctions: one in Performing Arts and another corresponding to the Higher Degree in Dramatic Arts. Their artistic career develops between the Canary Islands and Vienna, while remaining active in artistic and pedagogical projects in Spain.
Koset explores themes such as identity, memory, intimacy, sexuality, resistance, and collective forms of being together, understanding creation as a space of encounter and shared transformation. Their practice expands like a mycelial network—growing between languages and disciplines—where theatre, dance, performance, and visual arts contaminate and regenerate one another. From this intersection, they cultivate a transgressive aesthetic and an antidisciplinary gaze that questions hegemonic ways of
seeing and organizing the body and the scene.Visually, collage, photography, video, and object-based practices function as tools for research and atmosphere-building, while improvisation, objects, and collective processes shape their performative approach. They are particularly interested in the encounter between performance, space, and communities, generating ecosystems of participation and exchange.
It's usual to see them travelling between Barcelona and Berlin to conduct research with Normies Study Group and Observatorio del Placer, and their recent projects connect Barcelona, Berlin, Norway, and the Canary Islands, focusing on body–object relations and intimacy through performative practices. Alongside their own work, they collaborate with national and international artists and support artistic movements grounded in social and political commitment, with a focus on gender identity, queerness, and the body. In 2024, they founded La Sísmica, a physical company working with bodies and objects, presented at venues such as the Auditorio de Tenerife and the MUECA International Festival. Internationally, between 2023 and 2025, they were part of the Creative Europe–funded project Moving Matters, focused on connections between non-urban peripheries, collaborated with companies such as Young Boy Dancing Group, and were awarded a Culture Moves Europe grant for their new work SH! Silent Heritage.
They have performed and danced in spaces such as Teatro Victoria, Teatro Pradillo, Escuela Vilarinyo, among others. Their work unfolds across multiple formats, with a strong focus on performativity, relational practices, and experimental contexts rather than closed or product-oriented outcomes. Instead of producing finished objects, they generate situations, questions, and displacements activated through contact with people, spaces, and territories. Their practice moves fluidly between physical theatre, dance, dramaturgy, pedagogy, visual arts, and collective social practices: positioning them both as a stage creator and a thinker. Through ongoing documentary and practice-based research.
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