Saturday, November 1, 8 pm @ Latvian House,
491 College St.
Fastwürms (Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse) originally
came together in 1979 to work on hardcore super 8 films. These
early collaborations grew into an exclusive partnership and
shared authorship, and a wide-reaching multidisciplinary practice,
but Fastwürms’ root and source language has always
been the queer and weirding ways of reading popular culture,
music, cinema and television. This program brings together
a wide collection of work from the early super 8 to the most
recent digital video Button Push (33 min., 2003).
“Button Push is a cultural construction
about the symphony of blood and outer space awe, the dialectics
of the firing sequence, re-entry anxiety, the haunted dress,
death and sex. The tease of the toggle switch must inevitably
pay off with big bang candy. The hesitant flick and the finger
push rhythm builds up to the climax of sparks, jagged chunks,
flaming balls, apocalyptic spew and cataclysmic cum: From
above, a Witch spreads her Crowley deck on a bleached denim,
magic marker pentagram card table cover, below an orange shag
rug, behind a louvered walnut Hi Fi cabinet, the sound of
the needle in the groove pumping out SALT-N-PEPA, Hot Cool
Vicious, Push It (Remix)”. (Fastwürms)
The 2002/2003 Board of Directors/ Programming Collectiveis Roberto Ariganello, Elena Bird, Daniel Cockburn, Arthur
Conway, Linda Feesey, Graham Hollings, Carolyn Kane, Chris Kennedy, Sunny
Kerr, Jinhan Ko, and Louise Liliefeldt. Tom Taylor is the Program Coordinator
Pleasure Domeis a year-round film and video exhibition group dedicated to the presentation of experimental film and video. Pleasure Dome acknowledges the support of our members, the Canada Council for the Arts - Media Arts Office, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Charles Street Video, Media City Festival, Trinity Square Video and V tape.
Pleasure Dome follows a policy of non-compliance with any
government (or other) censoring or prior-approval laws or bodies.
