OMER FAST: THE CASTING (2007)
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Prodcuced by Commonwealth Projects, Omat Fast’s The Casting is based on an interview with a U.S. Army sergeant. In the installation, the soldier's recollections provide a unifying soundtrack to tableaux vivants reenacting disparate moments from his experiences while stationed in Europe and then in Iraq. The seamless narration, however, has been spliced together and extended to include the artist's process of auditioning actors for his work. Positioned at the back of the installation, the interview plays the role of "reality" as the more theatrical images are projected at the front. While the narrator's speech remains casual, the tightly rendered tableaux vivants borrow from the stereotypical language of mass media even as the segments represent an ongoing human drama. Partitioned screens in The Casting encourage an open-ended experience of the video, offering a perspective on the Iraqi conflict that takes into account actual lives as opposed to only the political content.
Four-channel video installation, color, sound; 14 min.
Four-channel video installation, color, sound; 14 min.
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