Cassils spent a good chunk of this week trying to ensure that the 200-gallon tank of urine he was installing at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts didn’t leak through the floor and destroy all of the priceless art that currently might be stored in the gallery’s basement.
“Can you even imagine?” the transgender performance artist asked me when we sat down to chat about his second solo show at the New Your City gallery. The show, entitled Monumental, features a new work that he made by saving his urine for the last 200 days and collecting it in the tank.
The piece, PISSED, was created in response to President Donald Trump’s February decision to rescind President Obama’s directive that transgender students should be able to use the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity. PISSED will be unveiled at the gallery on Saturday night when, according to a press release for the show, Cassils will perform a related piece, Fountain, and thereby complete “the 200 day durational performance by linking their body to the minimalist structure.”
Cassils, a Canadian-born 2017 Guggenheim Fellow and 2015 Creative Capital Awardee currently living in Los Angeles, has made a career for himself by approaching and proposing theories and questions about the body, politics, gender, history, being transgender and other potentially incendiary topics through his performance-based art. Ahead of the debut of Monumental, he discussed the logistics of preserving so much urine for such a long period of time, his relationship to his body as a transgender artist, the divide between art and activism and more.
HuffPost: Did PISSED happen organically in response to Trump’s action in February or was it a piece you’d be conceptualizing in some way and Trump’s move ended up giving you the perfect opportunity to actualize what you’d been incubating?
This mentally ill bitch reminds me of the demented faggots who posts traps on Sup Forums. I am quite certain that they store their piss to bathe in and are obviously mentally ill for liking dudes dressed up like women. This faggot needs to be locked up in a padded room, wearing a (((straight))) jacket.
Leo Peterson
Haven´t seen you in a while
Kevin Myers
i feel so bad for the parents.
Josiah Thompson
Is that Dylann Roof
Evan Robinson
i can think of dozens of legit of uses for gallons of piss. art would not be anywhere near that list.
Jacob Perez
>This Artist Has Been Saving His Urine For The Last 200 Days Ive been an artist for 4 years and didnt even realize.
Justin Gonzalez
This cunts needs a good zyklon B shower
Jonathan Cooper
That's a woman?
Hudson Hall
lol
Landon Nguyen
Whatever it is, it's a cunt.
>PISSED IRL meme infringement makes me cringe
Adrian Brown
Test
Caleb Bell
>POWERFUL reason >"fuck drumpf!" I hope BBC Pidgin cover the story
Aiden Diaz
Piss bottles are art now? How much further can we fall
Dylan Perry
so deep and meaningful.
Jace Howard
dey woman of man be protect piss as art wen axed give answer "fok drumf"
David Sanchez
>his Mate, we can all see from here he is a tranny.
Grayson Nguyen
I look forward to the follow up exhibition: "SHITTED" by renowned Indian street artist Pajeet Mallesh
Xavier Mitchell
>Saving urine >Be considered as an artist >"Powerful reason" means trump
Gas yourselves degenerate sick minds
Jordan Davis
>Cassils, a Canadian-born 2017 Guggenheim Fellow
Isaiah Watson
how do you get one of these jobs. I can throw shit on a canvas, what's that worth?
Austin Gonzalez
Pretty fun story if you read the whole article. I liked the parts where it comes out that this "transgender artist" is in a relationship with a domina and another domina friend of his mistress who managed to get enough education instructed him how to sterilize his piss for months.
Connor Anderson
Jesus, just give him the tendies already.
Owen Sullivan
>opaque piss jugs liberals fuck up everything
Brayden White
what the fuck? did some cunt just delete archivebro's post? eat shit mods
Art died (or got redefined by people like Beuys) long ago. It's not about being aesthetically pleasing anymore, it's just about doing "something". Basically, anything that doesn't occur naturally can be called artificial therefore being art by definition. I don't like that trend which is why I revere stuff like elaborated handcraft more than modern art nowadays.
Pic related is from a moron who started to pour molten metal into ant hills and by now he's making a fortune with his "work". Fuck that shit.
Thomas Perez
At school the teacher asked us when we thought art died as a serious profession. Some said 2001, 1988, 1978, many different years. I remembered from another class that it couldn't be pinpointed, but that it was over by the 1880s thanks to improved photographic processes which made it more practical and much cheaper to get one of those instead of a painting. That's when you start seeing Van Gogh and other movements pop up as well, and the teacher said that from there on in art became a self-destructive process in which people try to see how little you can do and still call it art.
It's a shame he left the school about 3 months later. Seemed like a redpilled guy.
Xavier Peterson
>((((((artist))))))
Blake Turner
When I leave piss in a bottle it turns all gross, cloudy and shit after a week. Can't imagine this will go well.
Grayson Davis
It's a serious shift in cognition, but that's how we are. Human race is evolving to the next step.
Tyler Lopez
That's why this "guy" reached out and contacted actual scientists about how to preserve "his" urine. :)
Jaxson Mitchell
>This mentally ill bitch reminds me of the demented faggots who posts traps on Sup Forums you are right, traps belong on pol and i agree with you that traps are not gay
Isaac Rivera
The funny thing is that was art school. >wtf was that for Gouvernment project that went wrong, had to bail and study was the only method legally available.
Oliver Howard
...
Carson Carter
UREA WILL SEPARATE FROM OTHER LIQUID RENDERING EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL
Dominic Martinez
I was just about to say this same thing. Dude looks like Dylan Roof.
Nathan James
>not turning the urine into gun power and using it to lodge a projectile into your skull
Eli Cox
They used rat poison to kill the fermentation. I text-to-speeched the article. Now I want to kill myself.
Ryan Moore
why was that post deleted?? also checked
Thomas Cooper
Archive bot
Jason Hughes
>he
Samuel Butler
(((((((((((((Ronald Feldman)))))))))))) """""""""""""""""" Fine Arts"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Levi Ortiz
Art is so inspiring!
Bentley White
There was a jackass on /b that bathed in his own piss a couple of months ago. Good times.
Dylan Myers
>you will never see the SS-Totenkopfverbände stand these people against a brick wall and aim rifles at their chests and when everything is all over a bunch of the bricks need to be replaced which is a pain in the ass but it's a small price to pay to heal the world and make it a better place for you and for me and the entire human race there are people crying and the people is me
Eli Clark
>blocks your path
Leo Smith
WERF
Julian Martin
WERFFFFFFFFFFF
Brayden Sanchez
So does my piss bottle collection make me an artist now?
Connor Bennett
WERFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFFFF
Levi Butler
>canadian /thread
Julian Miller
>(((Feldman)))
He smelt da gefilte. Oh hell, da mohel.
Noah Brooks
>He
Charles Wilson
it's their fault.
Kevin Sullivan
So brave. But wouldn't piss minimalism be something like a diet making you piss less? Do I get a Guggenheim for this idea, or do I have to cut my dick off first?
Mason Watson
That is by far the ugliest woman I have ever seen.
Mason Bailey
thats a pretty buff dyke wow
when being a woman is too difficult so you become a man with a vagina what an idea ladies and gent
>obligatory fat crippled tranny in a wheelchair for fucks sake is the car a Trans Am too?
Connor Adams
Fuckng ripped. Is that natty?
Samuel Richardson
The mods are now deleting Nordbot's posts? Nice, what a good use of administrative resources when there are 9000 "POL BTFO XD" and "BLACKED" threads that have nothing to do with politics
Robert Ward
>natty >without testicles Although I guess that would be standard for Canada
Dylan Nelson
What could you conceivably use it for?
Jayden Brooks
return of pisslord? youtube.com /watch?v=uyPNrPVKCzw
Landon Parker
A woman with 8% bodyfat would die. Probably risks dying at a week of 12% bodyfat.
Adam Mitchell
>Cassils will perform a related piece, Fountain, and thereby complete “the 200 day durational performance by linking their body to the minimalist structure I swear to God, if I was wondering by and that shitbird pissed on me I would burn the fucking place down. No survivors!
>the name of the piece is PISSED Is this the companion to SHITTED.COM ? What have we come to?
Evan Nguyen
Looks like Kathy Griffin cut her tits off.
Angel Young
>she's a leaf
Big shock, huh?
Colton Jenkins
good choice user
Angel Wright
Because we know that there's no degenerate art in Mer'ka... Oh, wait. It was the CIA who pushed all this shit to begin with. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ
Colton Watson
Who's autistic enough to outdo him by getting up to 201 gallons?
Joseph Diaz
It was just a general observation about bof occurence. Degeneracy is destroying America. Everywhere I look, Jewnigger trash rotting and stinking. America is a shitpile. No skin off my nose to admit and lament it. BUT! Just as a preponderence of the actual Slavs I've met in real life are redpilled, non nonsense manly sorts, the majority of Canadians I've met are degenerate fag-lovers who back down from fist fights. Just last year, a Canadian high school was in my hometown of International Falls, MN, for a softball tournament and the girls were all dye-haired dykes. On the American side, clean-cut Christian girls. It just seems to be a pattern in my personal experience.
Ian Phillips
Just a typical liberal faggot. Nothing shocking
Sebastian Sanders
Making gunpowder, fertilizer, and other substances derived from nitrates.
Easton Torres
How did you meet all these Slavs and all these Canadians? If you're comparing Canadian tourists to Slavs you meet through some right-wing channel it's not a very fair comparison. We have people like Jordan Peterson, Molyneux, Lauren Southern etc. All right-wing people with major followings. And there's a lot like this in Canada. If I went to New York I wouldn't expect to meet the same people as in small-town Montana. And I wouldn't worry about having to fight anyone either. I could reference all the Mer'cucks getting BTFO by nogs and then post this: youtu.be/R4qAgh1OW4w But are memes reality?
