Tranimacies and Affective Trans Embodiment in Nina Arsenault'sSilicone Diariesand Cassils'sBecoming an Image

2018/05/04 by Ana Werkmann Horvat · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Art, Politics, and Modernism #Posthumanist Ethics and Activism #Geographies of human-animal interactions

paper · doi:10.1080/08989575.2018.1445588

openalex publication_date 2018/05/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06

Abstract

In Nina Arsenault's Silicone Diaries and Cassils's Becoming an Image, the artists perform trans embodiment through engaging with the animacy of silicone and clay. Arsenault and Cassils work toward defining trans embodiment as affective entanglements with (in)animate objects and foreground trans agency, creation, and movement.

Citations

• The Transgender Studies Reader

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