Cassie Thornton

Cassie Thornton is an artist who is also referred to as the Feminist Economics Department (the FED). Her work investigates and reveals the impact of governmental and economic systems on public affect, behavior, and unconscious, with a focus on debt and security. Cassie’s works offer regular people an alternate route to find ‘financial success’ by revealing the value of complex personal narratives instead of credit scores, dreams over data, and value divorced from nasty cheating money. These opportunities are extended to the privileged and the poor– Cassie and the FED wish to invite all people to imagine debt as a physical obstacle that can be smashed like a piñata, to experience credit approval based on trustworthiness, and to witness the sense of duty and responsibility that comes when living is not a financial instrument.