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FASTWRMS (Kim Kozzi, Dai Skuse)

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Associate Professors

Sculpture Studio

School of Fine Art and Music

Directors, Lead Researchers

Digital Media Studio (DMS)

Education

Dai Skuse

1978Bachelor of Fine Arts, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
1984Camera/Film Stripper, George Brown College, Toronto

Kim Kozzi

1978A.O.C.A. (Honours), Ontario College of Art, Toronto
1972Alfred University, N.Y., Ceramic technology, (Scholarship)
1970University of Manitoba, Summer French Immersion

FASTWRMS, Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2006 HONKYOWN, Installation, Paul Petro Contemporary, Toronto
2005 BLOOD CLOCK, Installation, Gladstone Hotel, RM 206, Toronto Alternative Art Fair International
SPLICE THIS! Installation of Super 8 stills, X SPACE, Toronto, Retrospective screening, catalogue essay
2004 GUSSETT NATION, Installation/DVD, Paul Petro Contemporary, Toronto
PIRATE HEAD, Installation/ DVD, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto
2003 BLOOD & SWASH, Exhibition/Performance, MANIF D'ART, Quebec City
SHAGBAT, Performance/Video, IMAGES Festival, @ Paul Petro, Toronto
2002 BLOOD & SWASH, Installation/Performance, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto
THE POLLINATORS, Installation/Performance, VAV Gallery, Montreal
2000 TWO FANG HOE, Installation, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
SUPERSTITION, Photography/Installation, Gallery TPW, Toronto
1999 HOUSE of BANGS, Installation/Performance, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto
HAWK 33, Installation, Art Gallery of Mississauga
PEGGYS COVEN, Installation, Art Metropole, Toronto
1998 DEMETER 13, Installation, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco
1995 HOCKEY WITCH, Installation, Genereux Gallery, Toronto
1994 SNO-MAN, Site installation, Centre for the Fine Arts, Miami
WURMHOLE, Installation, Koffler Gallery, North York
1993 SELF AND OTTER, Installation, Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto
1990 GROUND to GROUND, Site Installation, Osaka 90, Japan
BIRCH HIVE, Site Installation, Skydome, Toronto
CAMPO VERMI VELOCI I, Installation, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
1988 CAMPO VERMI VELOCI, Installation, Canadian Cultural Centre, Rome
SHEET- ROCK -XOANA, Installation, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1987 CHEW OR DIE, Installation, The Ydessa Gallery, Toronto
1997 BIRCH GIRL P[LAZA, Installation, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff
1985 KNOW BY HEART LODGE + SIX-FEET-BY-OTTER-SPOT, Installation, The Ydessa Gallery, Toronto
1984 NEC UNG DEO/NEC MILLE SCUTA, Installation, The Ydessa Gallery, Toronto
1983 SNOW-SHE-BONES, Installation, The Ydessa Gallery, Toronto
1981 JAMBON VOLANT BIVOUAC, Installation, The Ydessa Gallery, Toronto

FASTWURMS, Selected Group Exhibitions:

2006 SAO PAULO BIENALE, Sao Paulo, Brasil
M.L.A., Montecore Liberation Army, recruitment & fundraising Performance (w/ Jill Henderson), TAAFI, Toronto
Dark Pool/Dark Hart, Nuit Blanche @ Hart House, Toronto
JINGLE, Gladstone Hotel
ICE FOLLIES, Site installation, Lake Nippissing
W.K. P. Kennedy Gallery, North Bay
TAME, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie
2005 BUG CITY, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
2004 STRADFORD BIENALE, Gallery Stratford, Stratford
2003 MOSAICANADA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2001 Godzilla vs. Skateboarders, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina (traveling)
RED OF TOOTH & KAW, Abattoirs by Artists, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
MUSEOPATHY, Display Cult, @ Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
2000 SPACE CAMP 2000, Installation, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina
INTO THE VOID, Tailgate Performance #1, Mercer Union, Toronto
WILDSIGN, ZONE 6B, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton Artists Inc.
BEAVER TALES, GIANT BEAVER CHARM,, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
K.A.W., Site installation, LOGO CITY, Blackwood Galleries, Mississauga
1998 KUVEN 11, Installation, BIENNALE de MONTREAL, C.I.A.C., Montreal
WALDEN 69, 360@ the CN Tower, Toronto
WALDEN 69, Dazibao, Montreal
1997 ANACOWDA & 3MOON, Installation, Rococo Tattoo, The Power Plant, Toronto
1996 DIORAMA, Installation, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff
1995 30 Seconds + Title, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1994 Channel: Open Project, Ideal Copy Office, Kyoto, Japan
1993 La IV Bienalle de Poesia, Zapata Subway Station, Mexico City
1992 ALLOCATIONS, Site installation, Zoetermeer, the Netherlands
1992 The Age of Discovery, Site installation, EDGE 92, Madrid, Spain & London, U.K
Artes Moriendi, Site sculpture, Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto
1990 ONZE BESOINS, Installation, C.I.A.C., Montreal
1990TEAM SPIRIT, Independent Curators Inc., New York, Touring exhibition, 8 Art Centers, U.S.A.
1989 BEE-STILL, Grace Hopper, Toronto
GH 89, Installation, Les Cents Jours, C.I.A.C., Montreal
1988 SIX-PITCH-OTTER-SLIDE, Installation, Winnipeg Perspective '88, Winnipeg
1987 ERRATICI PERCORSI, Installation, Acireale, Sicily
POLYPHONIC, Installation, Genazzano, Italy

Catalogues

SPACE CAMP 2000, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, 2004. Curator: Anthony Kiendl
COMO ViIVER JUNTO, 27a Bienal De Sao Paulo. Curators: Lisette Lagnado, Christine Freire, Jose Roca
TAME, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie. Curator: Lise Hosein
MosaiCanada, Seoul Museum of Art, 2003. Curator: Wayne Baerwaldt, Nancy Campbell
MUSEOPATHY, Agnes Etherington, Kingston, 2002. Curator: Display Cult, Jennifer Fisher, Jim Drobnik
EX OVO OMNIA, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph. Curator Judith Nasby
Superstition, Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2000. Curator: John Marriot
Beaver Tales, Oakville Galleries, 2000. Curator: Reid Diamond, Marni Fleming
Rococo Tattoo, The Power Plant, Toronto 1998. Curator: Philip Monk
Juicy Fruit, Koffler Gallery, North York, 1995. Curator: John Massier
WURMHOLE, Koffler Gallery, North York, 1994. Curator: Carolyn Bell-Farrell
SNO-MAN, Centre for the Fine Arts, Miami, 1994. Curator: Louis Grachos
Team Spirit, Independent Curators Inc., New York. Curator: Susan Sollins
Allocaties, Zoetermeer, Netherlands, 1992. Curators: Jouke Kleerebezem, Maria Sosa-Boezem
Edge 92, Madrid, Spain/London, U.K.. Curator: Jon Bewley, Tracy Warr
GROUND to GROUND, Osaka 90, Japan. Curator: Fern Bayer
Theatre Tableaux, Winnipeg Perspective '88. Curator: Shirley Madill
FASTWRMS, Perspective 88, A.G.O.. Curator: Barbara Fischer
Erratici Percorsi, Sicily 1986, Gennazzano 1987. Curator: Achille Bonito Oliva
BIRCH GIRL PLAZA, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, 1987. Curator: Daina Augaitis

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Scottish Sculpture Workshop

HD video production, Ice Station Isis

Huntly, Scotland, July 25-August 16, 2006.

Development of performance for Samhain @ Huntly Casle, 2007

MAP MAGAZINE 8, Scotland.

Artist project : Ice Station Isis (2 pages).

Web based project: Ice Station Isis (video trailer)

Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo , Brazil

October 7-December 17, 2006

Chief Curator: Lisette Lagnado,

Co-Curators: Critina Freire, Rosa Martinez, Adriano Pedrosa, & Jose Roca.

Quinzaine Film Program

October 4-18, 2006

ANTHEM, group exhibition,

Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa

Curated by Ryan Rice, Aboriginal Curator In Residence

May 14-August 22, 2007

Art Gallery at York University, North York, Ontario

Survey exhibition curated by Phillip Monk

Fall 2007

Catalogue 2008

Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

Survey exhibition curated by Jenifer Papararro, Christina Ritchie

Winter 2008

Catalogue 2008

Periodicals:

Enright, Robert, "Crafting, Every Witch Way", Border Crossings ,Pgs 40-51, Issue No.97, 2006
Sandals, Leah, Review of Gusset Nation, Sculpture Magazine, June 2006
Nayman, Adam, "Splice of Life", Now Magazine, June 30, 2005
Vaughan, R.M., "Room to swing a cat", National post, Nov. 27, 2004
Vaughan, R.M., Review of Pirate Head, Canadian Art, Winter 2004
Milroy, Sarah, "Beware the bra web and the panty net", Globe & Mail, Dec 4, 2004
Goddard, Peter, "Fastwurms cover a lot of ground", Toronto Star, Dec. 4, 2004
Hanna Dierdre."Art Team Scores", Now Magazine, Cover Story, Feb. 17, 2000
Dault, Gary Michael. "Review of Superstition", Globe & Mail, Feb. 19., 2000
Whyte, Ryan, Review of HAWK 33, art/text #67, 1999
Nuvolar, Alessio. "Hawking Art & Ethics", Tandem Corriere Canadese, July 4, 1999
Mackay, Gillian. "Peggys Coven", Globe & Mail, June 1999
Heartney, Eleanor. "Quotidian in Quebec", Art in America, February 1999
Simon, Cheryl and McSherry, Fred, "Destination Montreal", C Magazine, #60, November 1998
Palmer, Laurie. "Montreal Biennale", Frieze, issue 44, 1999
Miller, Marcus. "Alien Idealism", Voir, December 1998
Everett-Green. Robert, "To Boldy Go", The Globe and Mail, May 26, 1998
Gabrielle Mark. Lisa "Rococo Tattoo", Art Forum, No.3, November 1997
"Commisions", Sculpture Magazine, Vol. 17, No.2, Feb. 1998
Hart, Matthew. "A Golden Pond", Canadian Art, Vol. 14, No.3, fall 1997
McKay, Sally. "FASTWRMS", Flash Art, March/April 1996
Hanna, Dierdre."FioFire hockey team scores", Now Magazine, Jan.11, 1996
Hart, Matthew. "Fastwrms", Canadian Art, winter 1995
Hanna Dierdre. "Fastwrms Space Out at Koffler", Now Magazine, Sept.8, 1994
Girling, Oliver. "To Boldly Go Where No Wrm has before" Eye Magazine, Sept. 1, 1994
Schulman, Sandra Carol. "As Black as Snow", XS Magazine, Miami, May 11, 1994
Kohen, Helen. "Potent CFA Exhibition Gets Down to Earth" Miami Herald, May 1, 1994
Armstrong, John. "Artes Moriendi", C Magazine, summer 1993
Taylor, Kate. "Environmentally Conscious Creativity", The Globe & Mail, June 1993
Hume, Christopher. "Fastwrms Fills its Cases With Contradictions", The Toronto Star, June 1993
Gravel, Claire. "Guy Blackburn et Fastwrms", Vie Des Arts, No.141
Cembalest, Robin. "The Ecological Art Explosion", Art News, summer 1991
MolinVasseur, Marie. "Eco-Logique, cho-Politique", Etc, Montral, #13
Sloan, Johanne. "FASTWRMS: and the Art of Recycling the Canadian Landscape" Parachute #63
Mays, John Bentley. "Salvage Paradigm Sometimes Engaging" The Globe & Mail, Sept.28, 1990
Vincent, Isabel. "Exploring Nature in An Urban Hive", Globe & Mail, Sept. 1, 1990
Rochon, Lisa. "Natural Inclinations" Canadian Art, Vol. 7 #2
Mays, John Bentley. The Globe & Mail, Apr. 26, 1990
Lypchuk, Donna. "Wacky Wonderful FASTWRMS, Metropolis, Aug. 19, 1990
Portugais, Lynda. "Les Cents Jours D'Art Contemporain" Parachute #58
Gravel, Claire. "FASTWRMS: Anti-Colonialists", Le Devoir Sept.2 1989
Richard Rhodes. "FASTWRMS" Artscribe Jan/Feb 1989
Deirdre, Hanna. "Scrap Plate Project Bears Striking Fruit", Now Magazine, Feb. 9, 1989
Lypchuk, Donna. "FASTWRMS" C Magazine, #20, 1989
Lypchuk, Donna. "Where wild things are", Metropolis, Aug. 1988
Rochon, Lisa. "Fastwrms, probes the nature of things,", The Globe and Mail,Sept. 1988
Trowell, Ian. "Fastwrms seek rebirth from decay" Review of "Arbor Vitae" London Free Press, London
Tousley, Nancy. "Artist trio concocts Heady Brew", Calgary Herald, Sept., 1987
McGrath, Jerry. Review, "Chew or Die", Vanguard, Nov. 1987. 36-37
Mays, John Bentley. "Myriad messages from a traveling trio", The Globe & Mail, 8 Aug., 1987, C15
D'Avossa, Antonio.Review of "Erratici Percorsi", Tema Celeste, April- June 1987. 89
Deirdre, Hanna. "Revitalizing avant garde, animating Toronto" Now Magazine, June 11-17, 1986, 41
Perry, Art. "Gallery's choices important". The Province, 12 May 1987, 33
Christov- Bakaragiev, Carolyn. Review of Erratici Percorsi. Flash Art, April/May, 1987102
Godley, Elizabeth. "Vag opens display of local works", The Vancouver Sun, Sat April 4, 1987
Pannepuccia, Cesare. " Un sogno d'arte genazzano", Flash Art, March, 1987.
Pontremoli, Lidia Reghini. "Il cielo scolpito da fasci di luce". Avanti, 17 January 1987. (Vol. 91, No 14),
Mays, John Bentley. Fastwrms at A.R.C.. The Globe & Mail, 23 Oct. 1986, D4
Deirdre, Hanna."Moulding Moral Myths", Now Magazine, Vol. 6, Oct 9-15, 1986
Lewis, Mark. "Rousseau Redux", C Magazine, No 9, spring 1985
McGrath, Jerry. "Props for the passion", C Magazine, No 4, winter 1985
Fastwrms. "Nec ung deo, Nec mille scuta", C Magazine, No 4, winter 1985
Lauder, Scott, "The National Set-Up", The Canadian Forum Dec. 1985
Dault , Gary Michael. "Fall by the Ydessa Gallery", Toronto Life, Oct., 1985
McFadden, David. Fastwrms at Gallery 620. Vanguard 14, No.3 April 1985
Mays, John Bentley. "Papal paintings just sentimental kitsch". The Globe & Mail, 15 Sept. 1984, E6
Hume, Christopher. "Zany trio stuck on tarpaper art", The Toronto Star, 14 Sept., 1984
Butt, Robyn Marie. "Wrms move faster than the eye", The Varsity, Oct. 1, 1984
Nemiroff, Diana. Review of "Snow-She-Bones", Vanguard, 12, No.7, Sept., 1983
Wallace, Ian. "Canada: Anyone, Anywhere, Anything" Flash Art March 1983
Gronau, Anna. Parallelogramme, 8, No.3, Feb./ Mar. 1983
Oille, Jennifer. "Rough Cut/Material Transformation". Vanguard, 11, No.8/9 Oct./Nov., 1982
Mays, John Bentley. "Earthbound portraits and a flying ham", The Globe & Mail, 5 Dec., 1981
Labonte, Richard. "Splash showcases off-beat film", The Citizen, 17 July, 1981
Bowen, Lisa Balfour. "Kozzi exhibit creates total environment", The Toronto Star, 28 Nov., 1981

Collections:

OAKVILLE GALLERIES
CANADA COUNCIL ART BANK
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
WINNIPEG ART GALLERY
MACDONALD STEWART ART CENTRE
BANFF CENTRE
SURREY ART GALLERY
BURNABY ART GALLERY
OPEN STUDIO
ROBERT McLAUGHLIN GALLERY
ART GALLEREY OF HAMILTON
MACINTOSH GALLERY
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Public Art Commissions:

DIGITAL STREAM (with Mary Anne Barkhouse & Michael Belmore), University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 2004
EX OVO OMNIA, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, 2000
TURTLE POND, SNOMUN, WOODPECKER COLUMN, Metro Toronto Convention Centre (Expansion), Toronto, 1997
BIRCH HIVE, Sky Dome, Toronto, 1990-92
MASSASSAUGA LILY, One Financial Place, Toronto, 1990