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About Me
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Born in the USSA (1986): Columbus, OH
Lives and works in the bay area.
cassandra [at] cassandratroyan [dot] [com]
Cassandra Troyan is a writer, ex-artist, and pétroleuse whose writing, 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.” Their work demarcates spaces for experience through exploration of myths, normative (gender) roles, historical legacies, and cultural influence as a means to re-organizing agency in the disorganization of daily life. As a desirous voyeur wanting to reanimate the most gorgeous impulses in the unlikeliest of places, they are a trans-historical operator deriving pleasure and power from situations of submission, violence, labor, queer romance, sex work, horror, and capital.
They are the author of THRONE OF BLOOD (Solar Luxuriance, 2013), BLACKEN ME BLACKEN ME, GROWLED (Tiny Hardcore Press, 2014), KILL MANUAL (Artifice Books, 2014) and the chapbook HATRED OF WOMEN (Solar Luxuriance, 2014). Forthcoming in 2016 is a chapbook from Kenning Editions' Ordinance series, entitled "FREEDOM & PROSTITUTION."
age of influence
- 140 Billion Animals Slaughtered Every Year
- Altes Finanzamt
- Anarchist Without Content
- Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, And Economics
- Bad at Sports
- Brennende Autos Berlin
- Bureau for Open Culture
- Claire Fontaine
- Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
- Dropping Knowledge
- ES REGNET KAVIAR
- Environmental Health Clinic
- General Public
- INSTITUT FÜR RAUMEXPERIMENTE
- In Edit Mode Press
- Institute for Experimental Freedom
- LINEbreak
- Lumpen
- Malmoe Free University for Women (MFK)
- Mark Baumer
- Migrating Forms
- NGBK
- Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner
- Ola Stahl
- PRO QM
- PennSound
- Real, Vital, Urgent
- Sarah Cowles
- Sator Press
- Schizophrenic Summer
- Semiotext(e)
- Sharon Hayes
- Supervalent Thought: Lauren Berlant
- Swampland
- The Marvin K. Mooney Society
- The Pinocchio Theory
- The Renaissance Society
- The Stranger
- VITALforms conversations for Line of Flight
- Write Your Own Academic Sentence
- bright stupid confetti, A Digital Journal of the Arts
- inCUBATE
- populutionworks
Wasting paint is not the same as wasting food. Paint wasted, whether through creating a bad piece of artwork or unnecessarily re-painting a room or a house, could not have been used by a less-fortunate person to survive. When you waste food, you are wasting something that people actually need to like...live. Maybe people wasting paint hurts your artist soul, but people wasting food hurts real people's empy stomachs.
ReplyDeleteIf Cassie had produced enough paintings to fill the gallery she would have devoted far more resources which could have, hypothetically, been allocated to "real people's empty stomachs." You would have no problem with the hundreds of dollars it takes to buy canvases, paint, painting material, studio space, and frames but you do have a problem with the small amount of money used to buy rice and potatoes? Separate point: Our system of industrial food production depends on waste and over production. Our government has routinely subsidized over production and destruction of food grown by farmers to fix pricing. Or if you want to talk about wasting food, how about the inordinate amount of resources it takes to produce a cow to eat? Each time you eat meat, you are eating a waste of resources since more useful food goes into those animals then comes out.
ReplyDeleteSo out of meat production, industrial agriculture, farmer subsidies and a local artist actually spending less money that she would have in traditional painting supplies, which is the thing to complain about?