FASTWÜRMS Visual Artists
Mulmur, Ontario
Video by Silent Tower Inc. (Priscilla Galvez and Jeff Pavlopoulos)

FASTWÜRMS was formed in 1979. It is the cultural project, trademark, and shared authorship of Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse. FASTWÜRMS create poly-disciplinary works of art that mix performance and performative events into the context of immersive installations, collective making and social exchange projects. FASTWÜRMS’ artwork is characterized by a determined DIY sensibility, Witch Nation identity politics, and a keen allegiance towards working class, queer alliance, and artist collaborations. FASTWÜRMS is a Witch polity and epistemology creating and circulating aesthetic knowledge as a shared emancipation and liberation narrative. They have exhibited works around the world, taught at arts schools in Canada, namely at the University of Guelph’s School of Fine Art and Music, and created permanent public art commissions. Their works are held in many public museums and private collections. FASTWÜRMS are based in Mulmur, Ontario.

“As an artist duo, FASTWÜRMS have done things that are incomparable in scope, longevity and scale. However, it is their impact through intergenerational collaboration with other artists that will have an even deeper effect—one that is felt through affective exchange rather than mammoth object production. [...] Their contribution to the work of other artists through these collaborations is generous, never competitive, radically supportive, inclusive and positive.” 

Nominators: Artists Diane Borsato, Deirdre Logue, and Allyson Mitchell

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“FASTWÜRMS have done things that are incomparable in scope, longevity and scale.”

Selected works

A white and black canopy is suspended above an orange igloo shape, several slender tree trunks and other objects in an arboreal theme.
A portrait of two people in black robes and witch hats, carrying scythes. They stand against a blue backdrop. At their feet are two orange cats.
Coloured lights shine from round holes in the surface of a tall column. A woodpecker perches on the side. The CN Tower is in the background.
The form of a flying bat with red eyes dominates the space. On the walls are works depicting cats, skulls, logos, hourglasses and text.
A reclining slate-blue gryphon shows menacing claws, a sharp beak and a beady eye, all in bronze. Its plinth is a thick book on its side.
The photograph shows two human figures in furry suits holding hands. Each carries a crossbow. Walls bear various pentagrams and lettering.
Multicoloured rectangles bearing acronyms in block letters are tightly arranged on a wall. Below, symbolic objects rest on a horizontal ladder.
A large rock and a pillow rest on a red rug. A window is daubed with pink. Hanging fabric tubes form a large rainbow curtain on a wall.
Tarpaulins painted with coloured circles cover walls and two tables. Among objects on them are grey spheres and a painting of a skeletal hand.
Outdoors at night, two people in coveralls and gloves hold buckets and daub ceramic skulls with whisk brooms. Smoke rises above their heads.

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