Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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FASTWÜRMS is a 2023 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
Video directed by Priscilla Galvez et Jeff Pavlopoulos.
A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance.
The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts."
For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca
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Transcript:
Formed in 1979, the artist FASTWÜRMS is a joint authorship, the trademark of Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse.
FASTWÜRMS is a witch queer epistemology. We make art as the feral code to knowledge and wisdom. Reimagining the future as a commonwealth of boundless diversity and poetic cosmology.
We expand fields. We build worlds and utopias and make working models of new ways of being in the world.
FASTWÜRMS is a positivity economy. We conflate ecological and libidinal economies. We build social making models. We create proliferation prototypes of mutualism, reciprocity and generosity.
FASTWÜRMS is as a liberation narrative. We have a ‘Can’t stop, won’t stop’ compulsion to exceed boundaries and limitations, to build a bountiful, beautiful, polymorphous and poly-cultural Avalon.
We live and work in the territory of Treaty 18, in an old farmhouse with many outbuildings with our family of eight feral rescue cats next to a swamp and a moon pond surrounded by wild fields and transplanted trees.
Right now, we are creating work for our project, _Volcano Lover,_ tufting textiles, firing Raku ceramics and painting pyroclastic watercolours that tell the story of queer volcanology—a geo-queer liberation narrative. _Volcano Lover_ conflates maximalist aesthetics and queer futurity with the world-building profusion and procreative power of the volcano. We are making the seismic data of sustainable love.
FASTWÜRMS’ ethos is determined by the witch ethics algorithm: Do what you want. Harm unto none. Love is the law.
Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada.
FASTWÜRMS is a 2023 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
Video directed by Priscilla Galvez et Jeff Pavlopoulos.
A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance.
The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts."
For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca
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Transcript:
Formed in 1979, the artist FASTWÜRMS is a joint authorship, the trademark of Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse.
FASTWÜRMS is a witch queer epistemology. We make art as the feral code to knowledge and wisdom. Reimagining the future as a commonwealth of boundless diversity and poetic cosmology.
We expand fields. We build worlds and utopias and make working models of new ways of being in the world.
FASTWÜRMS is a positivity economy. We conflate ecological and libidinal economies. We build social making models. We create proliferation prototypes of mutualism, reciprocity and generosity.
FASTWÜRMS is as a liberation narrative. We have a ‘Can’t stop, won’t stop’ compulsion to exceed boundaries and limitations, to build a bountiful, beautiful, polymorphous and poly-cultural Avalon.
We live and work in the territory of Treaty 18, in an old farmhouse with many outbuildings with our family of eight feral rescue cats next to a swamp and a moon pond surrounded by wild fields and transplanted trees.
Right now, we are creating work for our project, _Volcano Lover,_ tufting textiles, firing Raku ceramics and painting pyroclastic watercolours that tell the story of queer volcanology—a geo-queer liberation narrative. _Volcano Lover_ conflates maximalist aesthetics and queer futurity with the world-building profusion and procreative power of the volcano. We are making the seismic data of sustainable love.
FASTWÜRMS’ ethos is determined by the witch ethics algorithm: Do what you want. Harm unto none. Love is the law.
