Podcast: F*ck Yeah to Art for Social Change with Cassils (2024)

Video (1:02:52): Podcast F*ck Yeah to Art for Social Change with Cassils (2024) by podcasters Sarah Tomchesson and Robin Jennings.

Show notes: “We close out Season 3 with longtime friend of the pod and iconic artist, Cassils. We talk about the trajectory of Cassils’s art career starting with early childhood paintings on genitals, to putting their body through peril as a means of waking up viewers to the struggles of the queer and trans experience. In Cassils’s view, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Their work is not only a vehicle for social change, it is steeped in the tactics of queer artist/activists of the 70s and 80s. Cassils uses their body heavily in their work, sometimes putting themself in precarious situations to convey the urgency and immediacy of the issues they are tackling. Cassils most recent piece draws inspiration from die-ins and the AIDS quilt. They will create a large scale cyanotype for Trans Day of Visibility at the end of the month at the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall in Washington D.C. Our conversation touches on a number of Cassils’ pieces including Human Measure, Becoming an Image, In Plain Sight and and the throughline they weave through each.”

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