TRANSACTIVATIONS: FANTASTIC VIDEO BY MAE RYAN OF KPCC

Heather Cassils gained 24 pounds in muscle over six months for the sake of art. Zackary Drucker asked audience members to tweeze the hairs from her bare body. These LA artists use their bodies as canvases to defy gender norms. Video by Mae Ryan Music: Rotation by Blindfold

Posted at 4:38 am on March 6, 2012 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

CURRENTLY ON VIEW TILL APRIL 28TH IN NYC: Have We Met Before? RONALD FELDMAN FINE ART GALLERY

Artists: Eleanor Antin | Chris Burden | Lynda Benglis | Heather Cassils | Marcel Duchamp | Yishay Garbasz | Detlef Henrichs | Christopher Makos | Man Ray | Andy Warhol | Hannah Wilke | Gil Yefman | Rona Yefman  February 18 – March 24, 2012  Have We Met Before? Ronald Feldman Gallery brings together several generations [...]

Posted at 4:29 am on February 7, 2012 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

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REACH ME: CASSILS@HOTMAIL.COM

I am an artist, stunt person and a body builder who uses an exaggerated physique to intervene in various contexts in order to interrogate systems of power, control and gender. Often employing many of the same strategies used by FLUXUS and guerrilla theater, my method is multidisciplinary and crosses a spectrum of performance, film, drawing, video, photography and event planning. I  am a founding member of the Los Angeles based performance group the Toxic Titties.

My work responds to the industrial production of images. To inhabit Los Angeles is to live on a film set – indeed, to inhabit any city whose culture is defined by mass culture of consumption is to find oneself defined by the images one consumes.

I have exhibited at the White Chapel and Thomas Danes gallery in London, Manifesta, Schnitt Ausstellungsraum, Edith Ruß Site for Media Art in Germany, LGBT film festival in Paris, France, at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwigin Vienna, Austria, at MUCA Roma and International Festival,Ex-Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City, at Art in General in NYC, most recently at the Yurba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and at LACE and at the USC Center for Feminist Research in Los Angeles as well as at Art Basel Miami Beach in Florida.


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