Cassie Thornton
IAS Open Programme
Independent Artist
Cassie Thornton is an artist, writer and organizer who makes a 鈥渟afe space鈥� for the unknown, for disobedience, and for unanticipated collectivity. In her recent work she explores the struggle of reorganizing and using privilege in the apocalypse.
She uses social practices including institutional critique, insurgent architecture, and “healing modalities” like hypnosis and yoga to find soft spots in the hard surfaces of capitalist life.
Cassie has invented a grassroots alternative credit reporting service for the survivors of gentrification, has hypnotized hedge fund managers, has finger-painted with the grime found inside banks, has donated cursed paintings to profiteering bankers, and has taught feminist economics to yogis (and vice versa). She is currently a co-organizer of a bar that is an undercover clinic in Berlin. Her 2020 book, The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future, is available from Pluto Press.
During their IAS Fellowship, Cassie is collaborating with Dr Lucy Lopez the Curator of Radar, Dr Jade French from the Department of English, , Dr Catherine Coveney from the Department of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy and Dr Rachael Grew & Dr Victoria Browne, both from Department of International Relations, Politics and History.