This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.What do you have to do to be seen for who you really are? In the case of Cassils, a visual artist who goes by one name and uses the pronoun they, the answer involves a large amount of highly athletic labour.
Cassils, a Canadian now working in L.A. and known for performances relating to the body, staged a heavy-duty event at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto on Thursday, a 90-minute endurance test in which they clawed themselves windows in a box of wet clay. The audience was ushered into a darkened exhibition space and invited to sit, stand or move around a large acrylic box, itself about the size of a small room.
Sometimes standing, sometimes swinging from a trapeze to reach higher up the sides, sometimes scraping effectively with clawing hands, sometimes slashing vainly with kicking feet, Cassils eventually revealed themselves. Here was a lean and muscular body, bare-chested and wearing only shorts, glistening with sweat from the effort, which must have been getting harder as the clay stiffened and dried.
I actually found the piece most evocative in its mysterious early stages when it felt as though the unseen Cassils was clawing their way out of the grave. Raw clay, the stuff of creation, seemed to have fashioned a tomb for the artist, suggesting a powerful image of life and death. The remains of the performance, as well as video footage, will be on display at the Gardiner as of March 5, when the ceramics museum opens an exhibition entitled Raw devoted to contemporary artists who use unfired clay. As well as Cassils, they include Magdolene Dykstra, Azza El Siddique and Linda Swanson.
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