From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Omer Fast
Omer Fast
Omer Fast (born 1972, Jerusalem, Israel) is a contempo-
rary video artist. He received his BFA from Tufts Univer-
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sity, School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1995 and an [1] Hunter College Department of Art
MFA from Hunter College in 2000.[1] Fast uses his films [2] "Omer Fast: About the Artist". Whitney Museum of
to explore the various possibilities offered by cinematic American Art. 2008. http://whitney.org/www/
medium. His piece The Casting (2007), produced by Com- 2008biennial/www/
monwealth Projects, was featured in the 2008 Whitney ?section=artists&page=artist_fast. Retrieved
Biennial.[2] 2008-06-03.
[3] Sherry Wong: Televisions, July 22nd, 2002
[4] Garcia, Carnelia. "Omer Fast." Modern Painters,
Artwork November 2009.
The Casting
The viewer walks into the screening room of the The
Bibliography
Casting initially encountering two hanging projection • Holland Cotter, "Is It Reality or Fantasy?" New York
screens. Each screen contains a different depiction of a Times, January 7, 2010 [1]
narrative showing the characters acting while silent and • Sabine Schaschl (ed.): "Omer Fast. In Memorry / Zur
remaining completely still. The projection screens are Erinnerung", Berlin (The Green Box) 2010. (English/
double sided and contain two additional images on the German) ISBN 9783941644144
rear side where the viewer sees two men engaged in • Mark Godfrey, TJ Demos, Eyal Weizman, Ayesha
an interview. The two men are a young American Army Hameed: "Rights of Passage." Tate etc. Issue 19
sergeant and the artist in a dialog about the narrative. (Summer 2010).
The artist states during the interview that he is interest-
ed only in memory and how memory gets mediated; he
says the work he is trying to achieve has or should have
External links
no political slant. Although the work is politically am- • Hunter College Art Department
biguous it shows the powerlessness of an American Army • Bucksbaum Award
sergeant in the current Iraqi conflict and possibly the • Whitney Biennial
powerlessness of perceived American hegemonic power. • Tufts University Alumni
• Postmasters Gallery
CNN Concatenated Persondata
In 2002, Fast released CNN Concatenated, an 18-minute Name Fast, Omer
long single-channel video which uses CNN footage. The Alternative names
video is cut so that each word is spoken by a different
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newsperson. The pieces literally asks the viewers ques-
tions about media authenticity and give CNN a distinct Date of birth 1972
voice.[3] Place of birth
Date of death
Nostalgia
Place of death
In October 2009, Fast’s exhibition "Nostalgia" opened at
South London Gallery. The exhibition included Nostalgia,
a three-part film installation that intermingles a man’s
account of his struggle for asylum in Britain with a reen-
actment of his story as a 1970s science fiction movie in
which he attempts to flee a dystopian Europe and relo-
cate to a colony in Africa.[4]
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