It is a normal day, everyone is bored, everything good seems impossible.
A small white woman has a tantrum in your school’s cafeteria about her
for-profit education at a “public institution,” the way her school has
colonized the city and her zero-sum future of shallow work, un-payable
debt, and constant eviction. It is Cassie Thornton, or one of her agents.
Cassie produces perversely hard-hitting social situations that result in
unexpected transformations on the streets, in workplaces, and at
schools. She stops time to summon up the unknown unknowns that
reside in the silences between people, institutions, and economies. Also
referred to as the Feminist Economics Department (the FED), Cassie’s
work investigates and reveals the impact of governmental and economic
systems on public affect, behavior, and unconscious, with a focus on
debt and security. She is a feminist economist and artist who uses
dance, writing, visual art, hypnosis, experimental research, tours, and
radio to reveal debt as a source of solidarity.