Mouse size
Text size
High contrast
Black & white

An INTERVIEW with artist and activist CASSIE THORNTON (FEMINIST ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT). Thornton is a marvellous weaver of dreams, desires, and communities, and is using these skills to create projects about radical care and post-work. In the interview Dani Admiss speaks with Cassie Thornton about artworld abolition and how a gift economy is a viable alternative to the precarity and competition that comes with Capitalist-living.
Read the interview by pressing the Host Website button below.
Cassie Thornton is an artist and activist from the US, currently living between Canada and Berlin, Germany. She refers to herself as a feminist economist, a title that frames her work as that of a social scientist actively preparing for the economics of a future society that produces health and life without the tools that reproduce oppression— like money, police or prisons. She is currently the co-director of the Re-Imagining Value Action Lab in Thunder Bay, an art and social centre at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of The Hologram Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future available from Pluto Press. www.feministeconomicsdepartment.com / http://thehologram.xyz / www.linktr.ee/TheFeministEconDept