Fastwurms
Telepathicats | 2003 | 3:30mins | DV |Canada
Fastwurms has exhibited and created public commissions and installations, performance, video and film projects, across Canada and in the United States, Europe, Korea, and Japan. Fastwurms’ cultural politics are complex and strategically subversive, their critical aesthetics relational and inclusive with a bent towards working class, craft collaborations, and queer alliance. Exhibitions include ‘Anacowda- happy to feed the world’, for Rococo Tattoo at the Power Plant, ‘Superstition’ at Gallery TPW, ‘Red of Tooth and Kaw ‘at the Mendel Art Gallery, Toronto, and ‘BLOOD & SWASH 3’ at Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, N.Y., 27th Bienale de Sao Paulo, and ‘Donky@Ninja@Witch’ at the Art Gallery of York University, North York, the Contemporary Art Galley, Vancouver, and Plug In ICI, Winnipeg. They recently performed ‘Krummi Krunkar: Tarot+Tattoo’ in Reykjavik as part of the SEQUENCES Festival.
Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse formed Fastwurms in 1979. It is the trademark and joint authorship of these Toronto/Creemore- based multidisciplinary artists whose artwork melds high and popular cultures, bent identity politics, social exchange and a Witch positive DIY cinematic sensibility.
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Telepathacats elevates a minor character from the homoerotic subtext of the military industrial complex in Fantastic Voyage (1966), into a queer star/magical avatar. This occult character, “the man with the white glove”, is translated and reflected in the action sequence of a pair of circumpolar snow Witches who magically direct a posse of barn cats with the awesome love power of the black glove.
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