{"id":234,"date":"2008-10-17T20:05:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T02:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=234"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:20:23","slug":"screening-october-23rd-6pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2008\/10\/17\/screening-october-23rd-6pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Omer Fast: Recent Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Thursday, October 23, 6pm<\/strong> | <em>Omer Fast in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<address>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/omer-fast450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1452\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/omer-fast450.jpg\" alt=\"Omer Fast, The Casting (2007). Image courtesy of the artist.\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Omer Fast, The Casting (2007). Image courtesy of the artist.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/address>\n<p>The provocative, whip-smart work of Berlin-based artist Omer Fast is garnering international acclaim, and with good reason.  Showcasing an incisive eye, sharp technique and keen wit, Fast\u2019s videos and installations of funeral directors, Colonial Williamsburg re-enactors, <em>Schindler\u2019s List<\/em> extras, and Iraq war veterans stitch history, personal experience, and mass media conventions into intellectually dissonant, emotionally resonant narratives. In conjunction with his debut Chicago exhibition at SAIC\u2019s Rymer Gallery, Fast will present his latest video, <em>Take a Deep Breath<\/em> (2008), as well as <em>Looking Pretty For God (After GW) <\/em>(co-commissioned by SAIC and the Manifesta Foundation, 2008), which draws parallels between mortuary services and a children\u2019s commercial shoot, a single-channel version of <em>The Casting<\/em> (2007) in which a soldier\u2019s professional and personal trauma underscores a series of tableaux vivants and for which he received the 2008 Whitney Biennial\u2019s Bucksbaum Award, and excerpts from earlier works. Co-presented by SAIC\u2019s Visiting Artists Program and the Department of Exhibitions and Events. 2003\u20142008, Omer Fast, various countries, multiple formats, ca 90 min.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Omer Fast<\/strong> was born in 1972 in Jerusalem. He lives and works in Berlin. He holds a BA\/BFA from Tufts University\/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and an MFA from Hunter of the City University of New York. Selected solo exhibitions in 2008 include the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, the Hannover Kunstverein and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. Upcoming exhibitions are planned at Tate Liverpool and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Omer Fast is the winner of this year\u2019s Bucksbaum Award, the largest award given to an individual visual artist, presented to an artist who is shown in the Whitney Biennial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitney.org\/www\/2008biennial\/www\/?section=artists&amp;page=artist_fast\">Whitney Biennial: Omer Fast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbook.org\/cultural\/feature.html?id=825\">Nextbook: The Reanimator<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 23, 6pm | Omer Fast in person! Omer Fast, The Casting (2007). Image courtesy of the artist. The provocative, whip-smart work of Berlin-based artist Omer Fast is garnering international acclaim, and with good reason. Showcasing an incisive eye, sharp technique and keen wit, Fast\u2019s videos and installations of funeral directors, Colonial Williamsburg re-enactors, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2008\/10\/17\/screening-october-23rd-6pm\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Omer Fast: Recent Works<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[206,416,423,476],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-13","tag-europe","tag-middle-east","tag-monographic-shows","tag-political"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8734,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/8734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}