The Body as Social Sculpture Cassils

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Prominent artist Cassils will discuss their latest work regarding social sculpture, the human body, and gender.

Listed by the Huffington Post as "one of ten transgender artists who are changing the landscape of contemporary art," Cassils has achieved international recognition for a rigorous engagement with the body as a form of social sculpture.  Featuring a series of bodies transformed by strict physical training regimes, Cassils' artworks offer shared experiences for contemplating histories of violence, representation, struggle, and survival, often juxtaposing the immediacy, urgency and ephemerality of live performance against constructed acts for camera in order to challenge the "documentarian truth factor" of images.

Bashing through gendered binaries, Cassils performs transgender not as a crossing from one sex to another but rather as a continual process of becoming, a form of embodiment that works in a space of indeterminacy, spasm, and slipperiness.

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