Event overview
Part of the Digital Arts Computing Masterclass 2018/2019 series which brings together leading artists and DAC students to consider how computation shapes collective life.
Cassandra Troyan is a writer, teacher, and artist whose work, described by Blake Butler, “takes the Sade-ian end of the oversharing shtick, turning one's own private human pain into a diorama reflecting the environments and brains that birthed it.” They are the author of several books and chapbooks of poetry, including: Throne of Blood (Solar Luxuriance 2013), Blacken Me Blacken Me, Growled (Tiny Hardcore Press 2013/Civil Coping Mechanisms 2016), and Kill Manual (Artifice Books 2014); two chapbooks, Hatred of Women (Solar Luxuriance 2014) and A Theory in Tears (Annotations & Cases For Freedom & Prostitution)(Kenning Editions 2016). They have been invited to present, perform, exhibit, or screen their work at venues such as The University of Toronto’s “Sex Salon”; Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASSMoCA); the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (MCA); with video retrospectives at Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn, NY and at Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco, CA. Originally from the US, they currently live and teach in Kalmar, Sweden as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Design at Linnaeus University.
They will present/perform and discuss two video inter-textual works: "My Daughter, Never More," which is a visual presentation and intervention into material scenes of engagement/refusal. A hummingbird never returns. During a master seminar, Pavarotti teaches important nuances in breathing with pronunciations lent by the birds. Anticipation, rage, and melodramatic ecstasy take the stage through longing’s articulation in the form of opera, artificial nature, intimate performances, and animals’ birth/death/rest as ciphers for intuited knowledge.
In Unbearable/Broken (Please Reconstruct The Night), a video-textual intervention re-performs sections of the author’s book Kill Manual (2014). Culminating in a visually and aurally overwhelming encounter of submission, the work explores the mainstream popularization of BDSM (made possible by the Fifty Shades of Grey enterprise) and its influence on depictions of consent or non-consent in hardcore pornography through the technologies and apparatuses of sex.
*Content Warning: This work contains graphic depictions of BDSM pornography along with detailed descriptions of consensual sexual violence*
This talk is supported by Linnaeus University.
Dates & times
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7 Mar 2019 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
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