Talk ShowOmer Fast
| Nov ’09 |
| 11 |
| 7:00 pm |
with Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fund
For Performa 09 Omer Fast will combine the familiar childhood game of “Broken Telephone” with the confessional talk show format. In a theatrical setting, invited guests will recount personal memories with direct links to current global events and the projection of power and freedom. As each guest begins speaking, an actor appears alongside, as an observer, listening to the guest’s account for the first time. When the guest is finished, the actor retells what he or she has just heard, while another actor listens to the account and subsequently narrates his or her own rendition of the story. This sequence repeats several times over the course of the evening, allowing the story to spontaneously transform from individual memory to communal recitation, from version to version into its own fluid text.
Working with film, video, and television footage, Omer Fast examines how individuals and histories interact with each other through narrative. He mixes sound and image into stories that often veer between personal and mass media-based accounts of current events and history. Fast was born in Jerusalem in 1972, studied in the United States, and currently works and lives in Berlin. His video installation, “The Casting” (2008), was presented at the 2008 Whitney Biennial and won Fast the 2008 Bucksbaum Award.
Nov. 11, 12, and 13 at 7pm
Tickets: $20 / $16 Performa Members
