{"id":463,"date":"2021-06-14T12:11:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T19:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/?p=463"},"modified":"2021-06-14T12:11:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T19:11:54","slug":"cassie-thornton-wednesday-june-3rd-2015-1130-100-pm-in-lecture-hall-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/cassie-thornton-wednesday-june-3rd-2015-1130-100-pm-in-lecture-hall-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassie Thornton: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015, 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2021\/06\/ALS-Cassie-Thornton-pic-225x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-464\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cassiethornton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cassie Thornton<\/a>&nbsp;is also known as the Feminist Economics Department (The FED). The FED works with imaginary financial limitations. On earth, we have amassed excessive public, private&nbsp;and personal debt, justifying an inability to provide shelter or food, education, or healthcare for many, and much less, go&nbsp;to space. Collective fear of debt is so strong that when we look at the sky we see the debt ceiling where the ozone used&nbsp;to be, rather than an expansive universe with infinite possibility. Thus, The FED\u2019s materials are in themselves financial forms\u2013 debt and its accomplice, security.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5>On earth, The FED constructs situations where members of the public observe and confront financialization\u2013 in&nbsp;order to see it as an idea that can be manipulated rather than the absolute way of living and being. Through producing&nbsp;experimental moments in public spaces, participants test and extend what can be considered \u2018real\u2019. This work involves&nbsp;ordinary people doing extraordinary things\u2014 dancers touching the surfaces inside financial institutions, actors selling&nbsp;their nervous breakdowns to pay off debt, security guards protecting public vulnerability by reciting poetry written on&nbsp;the job, and people screaming their debt to space over the radio.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Evergreen Art Lecture Series - Cassie Thronton\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VEs3uDjJSQA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassie Thornton&nbsp;is also known as the Feminist Economics Department (The FED). The FED works with imaginary financial limitations. On earth, we have amassed excessive public, private&nbsp;and personal debt, justifying an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[67,8],"tags":[3,84,29,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}