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Title: Cassils: Transgender Artist Goes to Extremes
Post by: stephaniec on November 21, 2015, 01:11:26 AM
Post by: stephaniec on November 21, 2015, 01:11:26 AM
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."
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."
Title: Re: Cassils: Transgender Artist Goes to Extremes
Post by: Peep on November 21, 2015, 06:45:35 AM
Post by: Peep on November 21, 2015, 06:45:35 AM
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
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
Title: Re: Cassils: Transgender Artist Goes to Extremes
Post by: stephaniec on November 21, 2015, 02:42:07 PM
Post by: stephaniec on November 21, 2015, 02:42:07 PM
Quote from: Peep on November 21, 2015, 06:45:35 AMgood to know
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