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Heather Cassils: Artist Talk
February 18, 2015 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Type:
* Lecture
* Social
This Event:
* Has LGBTQ content
* May be of interest to the LGBTQ community
Artist’s Talk
Wednesday, Feb 18, 7:00 PM
Location: Elvehjem L150
Heather Cassils is an artist who uses the physical body as sculptural mass with which to rupture societal norms. Cassils performs trans not as something about a crossing from one sex to another, but rather as a continual becoming, a process-oriented way of being that works in a space of indeterminacy, spasm, and slipperiness. Forging a series of powerfully trained bodies for different performative and formal purposes, it is with sweat, blood, and sinew that Cassils constructs a visual critique and discourse around physical and gendered ideologies and histories.
Sponsored by the Center for Visual Cultures. Co-sponsored by Art History. Organized in conjunction with The Wet Archive. Funded by the UW-Madison Anonymous Fund.