Artists and Curators Talks with Cassils
Artists and Curators Talks with Cassils
Topic Tags: forces of power social expectations social scripture
- Body as a social sculpture
- Visual critique of ideologies and history
- Body is formed in relation to forces of power and social expectation
shared links by Cassils
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65BVkf8Uj7s
X map trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=LZUnm1ulvvE&feature=emb_title
web and some more links:
Live performance Becoming an Image, Cassils unleashes an attack on a 2,000 pound clay block in total darkness.
The spectacle is illuminated solely by the flash of a photographer, burning the image into the viewer’s retina. Becoming an Image was originally conceived as a site-specific work for the ONE Archives in Los Angeles, the oldest active LGBTQ archive in the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzM8GTL2WGo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQp1WYBRLlY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuZUfmgeNKg
Cassils is a visual artist working in live performance, film, sound, sculpture and photography. Cassils has achieved international recognition for a rigorous engagement with the body as a form of social sculpture. It is with sweat, blood, and sinew that Cassils constructs a visual critique around ideologies and histories. Cassils received Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (1997), and Master of Fine Arts in Art and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (2002). Their work has been shown in exhibitions worldwide; solo exhibition venues include Perth Museum of Contemporary Art, Perth; Station Museum, Texas; and Ronald Feldman Gallery (NYC), and Trinity Square Video (Toronto). They have also received several awards, fellowships, and residencies, including support from the Canada Council for the Arts (2020), John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), Creative Capital (2015), and a Villa Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation Fellow.
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