Cassils:
Listed as one of ten transgender artists who are changing the landscape of contemporary art, Cassils has achieved international recognition for a rigorous engagement with the body as a form of social sculpture. Cassils artworks offer shared experiences for contemplating histories of violence, representation, struggle, and survival often juxtaposing the immediacy, urgency and ephemerality of live performance against constructed acts for camera. Cassils is a gender non-conforming trans masculine visual artist. Cassils uses plural gender-neutral pronouns (they, them, their) and asks that journalists do likewise. This plurality reflects through language the position Cassils occupies as an artist. |
Shi Jin-Hua:
Shi Jin-Hua is a Taiwanese artist who specialised in conceptual art. Shi's artwork has always been interconnected to his life experiences, as he believes that art is a way of documenting and reflecting life. Art is also his means to ponder about the values of the society, or serves as a cure to alleviate the pain in the world. As a patient of type 1 diabetes, Shi lives a life greatly influenced by blood sugar control. It even becomes the way for him to survive, to know himself, and to know the outer environment. In the beginning, he was forced to measure the level of blood sugar, and he soon got tired of such a rational, objective, and scientific measurement. He uses the body as his tool and medium, adopting various non-traditional ways to take measurement. Through the absurd, non-standard, and non-objective way of measurement, he rebels the oppression of the system and questions the existence of the objective and the Subject. |