Cassils was recently featured in Vice’s “The Creators Project”. Check out the video below and read the full story on VICE.
Inextinguishable Fire Premieres at 2016 Sundance Film Festival
The installation from Canadian, Los Angeles-based artist Cassils uses techniques borrowed from Hollywood stunts to speak to the violence of war. “Inextinguishable Fire put a match under our certainties and perceptions, making you…
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…
New York Times Interview, “Cassils: Transgender Artist Goes to Extremes”
The New York Times talks to Cassils about their performance of “Inextinguishable Fire” at London’s Spill Festival. Read the full article here.
The Guardian Reviews “Inextinguishable Fire” at the Spill Festival
The Guardian has reviewed Cassils’ performance of “Inextinguishable Fire” at London’s National Theatre. “Cassils makes you look; the artist dares you to avert your eyes from the safety of your theatre seat.…
Double Bill: Inextinguishable Fire + Tiresias @ Southbank Centre, London
November 8 – 29, 2015 Following my live performance of Inextinguishable Fire at the National Theatre as part of the SPILL Festival, London’s Southbank Centre will screen the film element of this…
Live Performance: Inextinguishable Fire @ London’s Spill Festival
November 8, 2015 Live performance of Inextinguishable Fire – Spill Festival of Performance,National Theatre, London, UK I am thrilled to be closing the 2015 SPILL Festival of Performance with the first and only live performance of Inextinguishable Fire, a…
Fall 2015: Performances, Exhibits & Screenings
ONGOING – Until December 1, 2015 Homosexualit_ies Group Exhibition at the Schwules Museum* and Deutsches Historishes Museum, Berlin, Germany Selections from Cuts: A Traditional Sculpture and Becoming an Image are included in…
Incendiary
MU Eindhoven in the Netherlands hosted Incendiary, my first solo exhibition in Europe, with a live performance of Becoming an Image and the world premiere of Inextinguishable Fire, a performance for camera…
Recent Interviews
Read an interview/ review:Huffington post with artist Kris Grey and performance scholar Julia Steinmetz on Inextinguishable Fire.Creative Capital by Alex Teplitz. Cassils Takes On Fire and ClayArt F city by Paddy…