CNN

Bodybuilding, boxing and fire: How Cassils pushes performance art to its extreme

Canadian artist Cassils has been set alight on stage, wrestled a 2,000-pound block of clay in the pitch dark and trained as a bodybuilder on a cocktail of steroids, raw eggs and protein. If art exists ...
Wired

We watched an artist set fire to themselves on stage

Have you ever seen a person set on fire? Of course you have -- you've seen it in the movies. Denethor in Lord of the Rings; Anakin in Revenge of the Sith; vampires in everything from Blade to Buffy.
The New York Times

For This Artist, the Medium Is the Body

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Cassils adds a dance piece to a body of multidisciplinary work that interrogates gender and the treatment of transgender people. By Josie ...
KEYT

Bodybuilding, boxing and fire: How Cassils pushes performance art to its extreme

Canadian artist Cassils has been set alight on stage, wrestled a 2,000-pound block of clay in the pitch dark and trained as a bodybuilder on a cocktail of steroids, raw eggs and protein. If art exists ...