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Cassils

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Paint Your Pain Trailer

 

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A Fiery Attack on Gender Norms | TCP Meets Cassils

 

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Cassils on Up To and Including Their Limits

 

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CASSILS - Inextinguishable Fire (sound recordist)

 

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Who is Heather Cassils?

Cassils is a performance artist, body builder and personal trainer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada now based in Los Angeles, California, United States. Their work uses the body in a sculptural fashion, integrating feminism, body art, and gay male aesthetics. Cassils is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital Grant, a United States Artists Fellowship, a California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship (2012), several Canada Council for the Arts grants, and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship. Cassils is gender non-conforming and transmasculine, and goes by singular they pronouns.
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  • Collaborative practice with the Toxic Titties 

  • Becoming an Image 

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