O mer Fa st 07 September-23 October 2005 at inIVA In his first UK exhibition, Godville is constructed from interviews with eighteenth-century characters – interpreters in Colonial Williamsburg, a living-history museum in Virginia, USA. The piece presents portraits from a town somewhere in America unmoored and floating between the past and the present. The Institute of International Visual Arts For further information please contact: (inIVA) is a contemporary arts organisation promoting artists from diverse cultural inIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts) backgrounds through exhibitions, 6-8 Standard Place, Rivington Street publications, research and educational London EC2A 3BE, United Kingdom ventures. inIVA has a special interest in new Tel.: +44 20 7729 9616 technologies, international collaborations Fax: +44 20 7729 9509 and commissioning site-specific artworks. Email: [email protected] Wednesday–Saturday, 7 September – 23 www.iniva.org October 2005, 12.00–6.00pm and Sunday 18 September & 23 October Registered Charity no. 1031721 2005, 12.00–6.00pm Admission free Opposite: Omer Fast, Godville, production still (Detail), 2004 Education Curated by Nadia Fischer 20 June – 20 July In Media Res: Information, Whitechapel, London Review Postmasters (Review), Flash and Katja Garcia Anton, 13 Facing Footage, Two-Person Contre-Information, Galerie of Books, vol.27, 6 January Art, May/June 2003 MFA, Hunter College of the June – 16 September Exhibition (with Jeanne Faust) Art & Essai, Universite 2005 Roberta Smith, Art in Review: City University of New York, (catalogue) Pinakothek der Moderne, Rennes, France (catalogue) Simon Gould, Voluntary Omer Fast (Review), New 2000 The Imaginary Number, Munich, 19 May – 4 July 14 May – 21 June Memory: Imagining the York Times, 18 April 2003 Kunstwerke, Berlin Storytelling, George Eastman Contemporary Art/Recent Invisible Past, Contemporary, Peter Schjeldahl, Goings on Curated by Anselm Franke House, Rochester, New York Acquisitions, Jewish issue 70, December 2004 about Town: Omer Fast at Selected Solo Shows and Hila Peleg, 4 June – 11 14 May – 4 July Museum, New York Omar Calderon, Christine Postmasters, New Yorker, Oct 2005 September (catalogue) Ars Viva 03/04, Frankfurter 11 April – 27 July Calderon, Peter Dorsey, eds, 21–28 April 2003 Postmasters Gallery, New Covering the Real, Museum Kunstverein, Frankfurt, 27 [based upon] True Stories, Beyond Form: Architecture David Deitcher, Get Real: Two York of Fine Arts, Basel January – 14 March [title correct?] Witte de With, and Art in the Space of contemporary Israeli artists 15 September – 15 October Curated by Hartwig Fischer, 1 Video X, Momenta Art, Rotterdam Media, Lusitania Press, New subvert the documentary The Institute of International May – 21 August (catalogue) Brooklyn Curated by Catherine David York, 2004 tradition (Review), Time Out Visual Arts, London Reprocessing Reality, 23 January – 23 February and Jean-Pierre Rehm, 23 Omer Fast (Review), New York, 10–17 April 2003 7 September – 23 October Château de Nyon, Visions du January – 30 March Contemporary Visual Arts, Régis Durand, (based upon) Midway Contemporary, Réel, Nyon 2003 Pol.i.tick, Williams College No.61, March 2004 true stories, Art Press, April Minneapolis, Minnesota Curated by Claudia Spinelli, Works from the Collection, Museum of Art, Omer Fast au Centre national 2003 14 May – 25 June (catalogue) 17 April – 17 May (catalogue) Museum of Contemporary Massachusetts de la Photographie, Les Silvia Rottenberg, [Based Fair Use: Appropriation in Art, Basel Curated by Lisa Dorin, 18 Inrockutibles, Upon] True Stories (Review), 2004 Recent Film and Video, Curated by Philipp Kaiser, January – 29 June February–March 2004 De Witte Raaf, No.102, National Centre of Hammer Museum, UCLA, December – March 2004 Think Big, Saidye Bronfman Sandra Danicke, Was wahr March–April 2003 Photography, Paris Los Angeles Film in der Kunst: Omer Fast Centre for the Arts, Montreal sein könnte, Frankfurter Silke Hohmann, Wenn ich 25 February – 22 March Curated by Matthew and Jeanne Faust, Curated by Cate Rimmer, 7 Rundschau, 4 February 2004 Soldat bin (Review), Thompson, 1 March – 29 Brandenburgischer November 2002 – 5 January Konstanze Crüwell, Eine Frankfurter Rundschau, 19 2003 May Kunstverein, Potsdam Nagelschere für den February 2003 Centre for Contemporary Art, Life: Once More, Witte de (catalogue) 2002 Vorgarten, Frankfurter Christoph Schütte, Blick aus Fribourg, Switzerland With, Rotterdam 2 October – 12 November Monitor: Video 2, Gagosian Allgemeine Zeitung, 28 dem Panzer (Review), 4 July – 16 September Curated by Sven Lütticken, Incommunicado, Hayward Gallery, New York January 2004 Frankfurter Allgemeine Postmasters Gallery, New 27 January – 27 March Gallery National Touring 25 June – 9 August Felicity Lunn, Fiction or Zeitung, 18 February 2003 York (catalogue) Exhibition: While U Wait, MOT, London Reality (Review), Artforum, Jennifer Allen, A Tank 22 March – 26 April Sainsbury Centre for Visual 14 June – 7 July December 2003 Translated, catalogue, Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2004 Arts, Norwich, UK (catalogue) Here and Now, Büro Jennifer Ostrower, Omer Fast Insideout, Fifth Festival of Frankfurt Faces in the Crowd, 30 September – 14 Friedrich, Berlin at Postmasters (Review), Art Contemporary Art, Berlin, 4 February – 23 February Whitechapel Art Gallery, December 18 May – 28 July in America, October 2003 2002 London Travels to Cornerhouse, Submerge, New art from New Brigitte Weingart and Jennifer Charlotte Laupard, Think Fast 2002 Curated by Carolyn Christov Manchester, 21 May – 11 July York, Kunstbunker Nürnberg, Allen, Facing Footage – Film (Review), Technikart (Paris), &: gb Agency, Paris Bakargiev, 3 December – 28 Gestes d’attention, Nuremberg, Germany, in Art, issue 64, July–August, 2002 (catalogue) February 2005 Printemps de Septembre, Curated by Eva Scharrer, 11 Catalogue published for the Emmanuelle Lequeux, Omer 1 June – 15 July Travels to Castello di Rivoli, Toulouse (catalogue) April – 5 May three exhibitions Fast, Citoyen d’un Monde qui Turin, 4 April - 10 July 2005 Curated by Marta Gili, 26 Biennial 2002, Whitney accompanying the Ars Viva Cloche, Le Monde (Aden), 19 2005 (catalogue) September – 19 October Museum of American Art, award, October 2003 June 2002 Selected Group Shows Pickup, Public, Paris Hidden in Daylight, Foksal New York Anke Kempkes, Hidden in Judicäel Lavrador, with 2005 Curated by Guillaume Gallery Foundation in Curated by Lawrence Rinder, Daylight, Frieze, No.78, introduction by Tracy Adler, Mixed Doubles: Nam June Désanges, 26 November – 19 collaboration with 3rd Annual 7 March – 26 May (catalogue) October 2003 Omer Fast: I wanna tell you Paik and Omer Fast, Carnegie December 2004 Film Festival, Cieszyn, Poland Second Site, Alumni Jennifer Allen, Openings: something, catalogue, Museum, Pittsburgh Voluntary Memory, Austrian Curated by Joanna Exhibition, Hunter College Omer Fast, Artforum, published by &: gb Agency, Curated by Elizabeth Cultural Forum, London Mytkowska, Andrzej MFA Gallery, New York September 2003 Paris, 2002 Thomas, 16 August – 9 Curated by Alona Pardo, 19 Przywara, Adam Szymczyk, Curated by Lynn Sullivan, 27 Chris Chang, Vision: Omer Holland Cotter, Never Mind October November – 19 December 17 July – 27 July February – 20 April Fast, Film Comment, the Art Police, These Six CUT/Film as Found Object, Rear View Mirror, Kettle’s Kaap Helder, 2003, Kunst en (catalogue) July/August 2003 Matter, New York Times, 5 Milwaukee Art Museum Yard, Cambridge, UK Cultuur Noord-Holland, Den Brian Boucher, History, May 2002 Curated by Stefano Basilico, Curated by Elizabeth Fisher, Helder, Holland (catalogue) Memory, Fiction: Omer Fast Biennial 2002, Whitney 25 June – 25 September 18 September – 7 November Curated by Peter de Rooden Selected Bibliography at Postmasters, Museum of American Art (catalogue) Busan Biennale (Moving and Nathalie Zonnenberg, 6 Ulrich Gutmair, Macht nur published online at (catalogue), New York, 2002 Travels from Museum of Picture Desire), Busan, Korea June – 3 August soviel Ihr Könnt, Netzeitung, 2 bbs.thing.net, May 2003 Holland Cotter, Art in Review: Contemporary Art, Miami (catalogue) Arcadia, Govett-Brewster Art August 2005 Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Second Site (Review), New 13 November 2004 – 30 21 August – 31 October Gallery, New Plymouth, New Mary Abbe, Below the Radar, Cream 3: Contemporary Art York Times, 21 March 2002 January A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Zealand Star Tribune, Minneapolis, 27 in Culture, Phaidon Press, Prague Biennale, Second Postmasters Gallery, New Curated by Hanna Scott, 10 May 2005 London, 2003 Sight York May – 20 July, Peter Campbell, At the Rachel Stevens, Omer Fast at the case of Godville, the viewer’s reading of called ‘fast-food ancestor worship’. the work is continuously jarred by the slippage between past and present: the character- During the shooting of Godville, I interpreters slip seamlessly between the deliberately tried to engage the two colonial past of Williamsburg and centuries that converge in Colonial contemporary reality. Willamsburg. In the beginning of each interview, I spoke to the performers as an OF: A part of what makes a time machine ideal visitor would. I asked them about the like Colonial Williamsburg work is the town they live in, what’s going on around mutual consent it requires. The performer them, their 18th-century life. At some point puts on a costume, emulates an accent though, I stopped the illusion and started and deliberately forgets the last two asking some of