Cassils: Transgender Artist Goes to Extremes

[stephaniec]

Cassils: Transgender Artist Goes to Extremes

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/arts/international/cassils-a-transgender-artist-goes-to-extremes.html

The New York Times/By STEPHEN HEYMANNOV. 18, 2015

"The Canadian transgender artist Cassils specializes in physically demanding performances that often require intense training regimens to transform the artist's form into that of a bodybuilder or a mixed martial artist.

"I see the body as a social sculpture," says Cassils, whose work has critiqued the pursuit of an unsustainable physique or the difficulty of representing violence in art. One of Cassils' first major performances required the artist to stand still, nude, for five hours flush against an ice sculpture of a neoclassical male bust until it melted from the artist's body heat."

[Peep]

I'm shivering just thinking about that :P

ETA: I actually just looked through this artist's website and they're pretty incredible, worth checking out if you're interested in photography/ performance art

[stephaniec]

I'm shivering just thinking about that

ETA: I actually just looked through this artist's website and they're pretty incredible, worth checking out if you're interested in photography/ performance art

good to know