Cassils
Discipline: Performance Art
Website: https://www.cassils.net/
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Twitter: @CASSILSartist
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Bio
Cassils is a multi-disciplinary artist with a specialization in live performance and experiences. They make their body material in their performances while making themselves the protagonist in their narrative. The works Cassils produces engage with narratives expressing the violence, representation, and survival of those of the LGBTQIAPK+ identities and experiences.
Artist Statement
The “Cuts” series is a contrast to Antin’s “Carving”. Cassils transforms to take a more masculine direction. In 23 weeks, they put on 23 pounds of muscle and was photographed throughout the process. On the 160th day of this series, Cassils teamed up with Robin Black to take photographs as an homage to Linda Benglis who created the legendary feminist piece, “Advertisement” in 1974. The piece was a photograph of Benglis holding a double-ended phallus on Artforum’s advertising spaces. In honor of Benglis, the phallus is replaced with Cassils’ masculine body and changing the messaging slightly. Cassils and Black dispersed these images to fashion and art magazines to share these images of self-empowering Transgender representation to their constituents. The series, “Advertisement: Homage to Benglis” is an attempt on highlighting feminist artists like Benglis in efforts to bring about change and a shift in the American Cultural Landscape through the context of the LGBT-specific media.
