Cassandra Tytler
Cassandra Tytler is a video artist and researcher with a particular focus on performance practices. She works across single channel video, performance, site, and installation. Her research interests lie in the performance of video and its encounter within place, to create a relational and aware politics of resistance to normalising narratives of exclusion. In making site-based creative research, Tytler aims to pull people, other beings, and places together to foster an intwining of relations so that participants experience the work beyond their individual selves. She hopes that through these speculative art actions that people feel a part of larger ecosystems and therefore realise their responsibility to them.
Tytler's work combines an unsettling, wry humour with a playful sensibility. It is an ongoing examination of the mechanics of audio-visual performance, both onscreen and by the hand of the artist. She works from a feminist, queer, and anti-colonialist position.
She completed her practice-led PhD within the Faculty of Art (Theatre Performance) at Monash University, Naarm/Melbourne in 2021. Originally from Naarm/Melbourne, she moved to Boorloo/Perth in April 2023 as a Forrest Creative & Performance Fellow. During her fellowship she is situated with the Centre for People, Place, and Planet and working across the School of Education and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University.
Tytler has exhibited, screened and performed work nationally and internationally. She has received support and fellowships from numerous organizations such as the Forrest Foundation, City of Stirling, Monash Academy of Performing Arts, The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, The Cité des Internationales, Paris, The Australia Council, The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund, American Australian Association, NYC. Tytler has exhibited in galleries such as The Torrance Art Museum, L.A.; F.A.C.T. Liverpool; Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland; Harold Golen Gallery, Miami; MARS Gallery; The Counihan Gallery; Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne; Metro Arts, Brisbane.