Cassandra Troyan

About Me

Cassandra Troyan

Born in the USA
Lives and works in Chicago, IL

cassandra [at] cassandratroyan.com

Cassandra Troyan is an artist and writer born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Chicago in Visual Arts. She hopes to live on a boat in the main harbor of Stockholm after graduation. She has a chapbook written with her brother Cody Troyan, entitled, Big Bill and the Lonely Nation, and Part II: PLACES TO GO TO DIE, was recently released at Pangur Ban Party. Her first collection of poetry, THE THINGS WE EMBODY ARE THE THINGS WE DESTROY is slated for publication from Tiny Hardcore Press in 2013. She curates the reading and performance series EAR EATER, with Colin Winnette in Chicago, IL. She has performed at local Chicago venues such as Roxaboxen Exhibitions, Heaven Gallery, and threewalls.

She is a member of Bureau for Open Culture, Red76 and collaborates with Genevieve White, Zefrey Throwell, Ola Stahl, and with Rachel Ellison as JIMMY BROOKS. She has exhibited or screened her work nationally and internationally, at the Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH; Moving Frames Festival in Mylitene, Greece; One Minute Film Festival, Narrowsburg, NY; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; FASAD Gallery in Malmo, Sweden; Modern Art Oxford, UK; Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland; MASS MoCA, North Adams MA; Art Factory Malakta, Malax, Finland; PERFORMA 2011, New York City, NY and the SMART Museum of Art, Chicago, IL.

She is young and ambitious and is in constant search of naps and snacks.

Everything is © of Cassandra Troyan.
Seriously.

Publications:

Can still be purchased at the poetry shelf at Modern Art Oxford, UK

Official release date, September 17th, 2010
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Big Bill and the Lonely Nation, Part II: PLACES TO GO TO DIE
Cassandra/Cody
TROYAN
(Pangur Ban Party, August 2011)
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A Manual for the Immaterial Worker: Bureau for Open Culture
(Printer Matter, Inc., July 2011)
Available for free at Printed Matter in NYC, NY.

My work is currently or forthcoming in these publications:

ONLINE:
allwritethen

amphibi.us

Double Shiny
decomP
Everyday Genius
H_NGM_N
INTERNET POETRY
JMWW
LET PEOPLE POEMS
THE LAKE EFFECT
Metazen
My Name Is Mud (upcoming)

Negative Suck

New Wave Vomit
PANGUR BAN PARTY

Pop Serial, Issue 2
Pop Serial, Issue 3 (upcoming)
Right Hand Pointing
Red Lightbulbs

The Scrambler

Secret Journal (upcoming)
Smalldoggies Magazine
unsure if i will allow my beard to grow for much longer

UP

PRINT:
Bluestem (Spring 2012)
My Name Is Mud
Pop Serial, Issue 2
Smalldoggies Reading Series Chapbook 2

Anthologies:

Very Beautiful Women at PANGUR BAN PARTY

VOMIT, El Gaviero Ediciones, (upcoming)

INTERVIEWS:
Evans, Walker. Columbus Underground. Local Artist Spotlight: Cassandra Troyan, March 11, 2010

Kitchell, Mike. HTML Giant. "Interview with Cassandra Troyan about the EAR EATER Readings Series." February 24, 2011

Payne, James. BANALIZATION. "Interview with Filmmaker, Cassandra Troyan,"
September 19, 2010

PROJECTS:

ALIENATION TODAY

BUREAU FOR OPEN CULTURE

Artist Statement

Everyday we are met with the impossibility of ourselves. The separation that exists between the meaning we wish to make, and all the quotidian hinderances that prevent our efficacy in the world. My work seeks to investigate the supposedly hidden structures of our desires by rendering visible the daily ways we make meaning in the world, and find ourselves in relation to others. Dancing with people. Coming with people. Smoking or drinking or walking or fighting or crying or talking or standing or sitting together in silence. I am not interested in creating my own micro-utopia. Plenty already exist. I am interested in creating scenes for emotional encounters through the clarity and contradiction enabled by polarities. I focus on embodying the moment of inarticulateness. I believe that in my body of work the aspect of collaboration becomes a material in of itself, or how the seemingly disparate medias at play resemble the friction between the desire for immediate intimacy and recognition for the viewer; and the inability to fill, or reconcile that feeling.

Following the belief of Deleuze and Guattari, if all we have is desire, it can be tempered through different sources and means. Sometimes we wish to transcend the mundane through absurd and pleasured realms with “a nascent subjectivity, which we will continually find in dreams, deliré, creative exaltation, or the feeling of love…” (Guattari, Chaosmosis, 6). Other times perhaps relinquishing delight in materiality can lead not to escape, but the palpable. The hope of putting ourselves and words into a space of action as pleading for enunciation.

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Recognition & Press:

Coup de Foudre, Journal of Short Film: Volume 16, 2009
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Coup de Foudre, “Transcending Silence” University at Albany, NY, journal review, Spring 2009

House, Patricia, The Lantern, OSU Newspaper. “Hot Air Balloon Creates Art in Communication,” October 28, 2009

Gilson, Nancy, The Columbus Dispatch. “Exhibition Provides Its Own Dialogue,” November 24, 2009

Werle, Shannon, Metropolismag.com. “Ear to the Ground,” January 11, 2010

Deville, Chris, The Alive. "Your Life Is Not My Playground," February 11, 2010

Review by Lori Waxman: the 60wrd/minute Art Critic.

Ljones, Erik, Skanksa.se. "I skyltfönstret finns kärleken," May 29, 2010

Deville, Chris. The Alive. Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, February 2011.

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