Camille Casemier – SAIC Graduate Exhibition 2022

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Camille Casemier

Post Baccalaureate

IMPACT Performance Festival

camillecasemier@gmail.com

camillecasemier.com

Camille Casemier is a performance artist based in Chicago, Illinois, born in Vermont in 1995. She received her BFA in Interarts Performance from the University of Michigan in 2020 and has taken additional workshops with Johannes Deimling of Performance Art Studies, Eiko Otake, and the Hinterlands. Camille’s performance practice traverses many disciplines including video, sculpture, dance, puppetry, and writing. She has performed at New York Live Art (NYC), Stonewall Inn (NYC), SiteLab’s Rumsey St. Project (Grand Rapids), Detroit Fringe Festival, Ypsi After Glow (Ypsilanti, MI), Phantom Theater (Warren, VT), the Hive on Pine (Burlington, VT), Ox-bow School of Art (Saugatuck), No Nation (CHI), and Streifen Performance Art Festival (Germany). She also shares her practice as an educator, working as a teaching artist at the Generator Makerspace and as a remote art mentor at U-32 High School.

Camille Casemier - Churnings

Churnings, 2021, Hand mixer, cinderblock, fish bowl, tire, table leaf from my great great great grandmother's writing desk, emergency blanket, mop, and string, Photo by Eugene Tang

Camille Casemier - Untitled

Untitled, 2021, Yellow pants, Photo by Monika Deimling of Performance Art Studies

Camille Casemier - Get Your Insides Out

Get Your Insides Out, 2021, Umbrella, butterfly net, yellow plastic bags, and bucket, Photo by Jan Treiber

Camille Casemier - Untiitled

Untiitled, 2021, Yard waste bag, Photo by Monika Deimling of Performance Art Studies

Camille Casemier - Daryl

Daryl, 2021, Doll arm mold, doll arm casts, rubber duckies, live cameras, light box, and slides, Photo by Mark Andrus of The Moon GR

Get Your Insides Out, 2021, Butterfly net, umbrella, plastic bags, bucket, and silver jacket, Video, 20 mins., Streifen Performance Art Festival, PAS #73 Goerlitz, Germany/Zgorzelec, Poland

Churnings, 2021, Fish bowl, cinder block, tire, hand mixer, emergency blanket, yellow string, mop, table leaf from my great great great grandmother’s writing desk, Video, 10 mins.

When I was learning to write, I put a pencil in each hand and wrote with both, simultaneously drawing the same letters, mirroring each mark, moving from the center to the outsides of the page. My teachers took my pencil away, made me sit on my left hand, until they believed this impulse in me to be satisfactorily erased.

I make performances to excavate this kind of information living in my body and to give utterance to my particular existence. The translation of interior information is ever inexact and the fickle nature of language is what I find myself recursively examining in my work, language understood in a most basic form as the intent to create a system for meaning to traverse a threshold.

My current body of work is developing an embodied visual language. I create systems with objects that question how my body and an object can mutually constitute and catalyze one another. I spent my formative years around Bread and Puppet where I learned about giving life to things. At some point, I realized I do not believe in the inanimate and that things around me are giving life to me too. I am interested in the dualist notions that language hinges upon, interior and exterior, the self and the other, the witness and the actor, animate and inanimate. The utterance transforms across these thresholds and I am curious about the potential experience of embracing these emergent, unfixed spaces in between. Presence is restorative. Presence, with the self and shared among many, eclipses the seeming impermeability of these fixed points of interior, exterior, self, other.