Camille Casemier, b 1995 in Vermont, uses her practice to study unwanted objects she encounters at her day job at a resale shop. Object led inquiries employ performance, video, and sculpture that occur in the studio, the resale shop, on stages, screens, and in public space. The idea of the occurrence is not limited to the presentation of a work, objects are understood in these terms as well, not only as the bearers of the burden of hyper sentimentality but also that objects occur by way of geopolitical events. There is a lot involved in the ideological and material production of these unwanted things that Americans also don’t want to be responsible to. Noticing objects that talk louder than others, Casemier comes up with ways of situating objects to speak to things she is learning how to speak about.

Casemier spent her formative years around Bread and Puppet, where she learned to see a liveness in things, she studied dance at the New School where she started thinking more critically about the movement of bodies and objects in physical and virtual space, later earning her bachelors of fine arts in performance from the University of Michigan, and then working as a projection designer for bands and theaters in Burlington, Detroit, and New York City.