Body of Work-Cassils-DEI Visiting Artist in Sculpture Intermedia

Art Building West 141 North Riverside Drive, Iowa City, IA, United States

Cassils is a transgender artist who makes their own body the material and protagonist of their performances.  Cassils’s art contemplates the history (s) of LGBTQ+ violence, representation, struggle, and survival. For Cassils, performance is a form of social sculpture: Drawing form the idea that bodies are formed in relation to forces of power and social expectations, Cassils...