--- title: 2021_Cassils_The New York Times date: 2021-10-21T18:08:00-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-cassils-the-new-york-times" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) For This Artist, the Medium Is the Body The New York Times Oct 21, 2021 MANCHESTER, England — Rolling, scrubbing, shoving and stroking: The dance piece “Human Measure,” which premiered here earlier this month, is filled with bodies touching. Performed by the multimedia artist Cassils and five other mostly nude dancers, the choreography alternates between sensuously intimate and hedonistically frenetic. The tone set by low, red lighting and a droning, instrumental soundtrack is interrupted by intermittent photographic flashes that leave a blinding retinal burn in their wake: Is the audience seeing too much, or not enough? [**Read more here.**](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/arts/dance/cassils-human-measure.html)**[](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/arts/dance/cassils-human-measure.html)** Related News & Press Oct 20, 2021 [ ![Wilke Intra Venus 4 July 261992 February 19 1992 Edit](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke-Intra-Venus-4-July-261992-February-19-1992-Edit.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-wilke-art-in-america-online) Oct 20, 2021 Art in America [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [Hannah Wilke: Living as Art](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-wilke-art-in-america-online) Oct 13, 2021 [ ![Cassils Inextinguishable Fire Burn for Portrait 2007 2015 02](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils-Inextinguishable-Fire-Burn-for-Portrait-2007-2015_02.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-cassils-cnn-style) Oct 13, 2021 [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [Bodybuilding, boxing and fire: How Cassils pushes performance art to its extreme](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-cassils-cnn-style) Sep 01, 2021 [ ![Wilke So Help Me Hannah 1978 squatting looking back hair on face gun 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke-So-Help-Me-Hannah-1978-squatting-looking-back-hair-on-face-gun_1.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-wilke-art-in-america) Sep 01, 2021 Art in America [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [Living as Art](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-wilke-art-in-america) Aug 14, 2021 [ ![Wilke Intra Venus Marilyn Monroe 1992 1993 HWCALA Scharlatt VAGA ARS3 1200x780](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke-Intra-Venus-Marilyn-Monroe_-1992-1993-HWCALA-%C2%A9-Scharlatt_VAGA_ARS3-1200x780.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-wilke-hyperallergic) Aug 14, 2021 Hyperallergic [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [The Willful Jouissance of Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-wilke-hyperallergic) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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