Contact
andreaspisto@pm.me
@drespisto
Dre Spisto (he/they, b. Venezuela, 1989) is an artist whose work moves across live performance, experimental film, and installation. Rooted in sensory knowledge and subversive tenderness, their practice explores the entangled terrains of queerness, displacement, and desire often through surreal, non-linear compositions that invite audiences into states of not-knowing and participation often through mischief seeking and great hope.
Working across theatres, galleries, and club spaces, Dre draws on the energies of each to shape forms of encounter that are affective, participatory, and resistant to traditional spectatorship often blending and pulling from each other. Their performances often blur the edges of the absurd and the intimate, using humour not as distracting and disarming technology for closeness, a way to hold contradiction, rupture tightness, and pull the viewer close (instead of towards) understanding.
Time (crip time, autistic time, dream time) are both subjects and methods in their work. Rather than adhering to narrative structure or resolution, Dre privileges process, texture, and attunement. Slowness, fragmentation, and softness are not aesthetic gestures but refusals that challenge capitalist rhythms of coherence, clarity, and productivity. Softness/woundedness as an anarchic entry point to resistance.
A graduate of Arthaus Berlin in Lecoq and embodied practices, with a specialism in clown through mask, Dre merges movement, improvisation, and autobiographical character play with live and projected film. A graduate associate from Open School East (2025–2026), their practice evolved deeper into collaborative experimentation working with and alongside other artists/spectators/guests to explore the generative space between bodies, intentions, and forms. Alongside performance, Dre works as a process director and mentor and is a visiting lecture at Mountview Academy of Performing arts in the Theatre and Education department. Dre will continue their artistic research at the Dutch Art Institute 2026-2028. Dre is currently developing their auto-fiction feature film.
Process Direction
Alt Dramaturgy
Facilitation / Lecture
Collaborator
Consultant
Performer
Curation
Host
Researcher
Panelist
It Will:ll Come
Margate Pride Map
Crate Space
2026
Urchins, Mouths
For Ways Below
Open School East
2026
Gay Audacity
Off Season
Margate
2026