WIRED: We watched an artist set fire to themselves on stage

WIRED magazine profiles Cassils’s performance of “Inextinguishable Fire” at London’s National Theatre.

Cassils gazes expressionlessly over the audience. During the entire process, in fact, Cassils will say nothing. There is no explanation, no reassurance. We are left to guess what is happening — and, after it is over, to guess whether Cassils is unharmed. “Something I’m very interested in is implicating the viewer in the act of watching,” they said after the performance. “They’re not just passive people that walk up — they’re part of the piece.”

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