{"id":16024,"date":"2012-10-30T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=16024"},"modified":"2014-10-04T15:54:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T19:54:45","slug":"cannibal-nympho-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=16024","title":{"rendered":"Cannibal Nympho Witch at Paul Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CNW-Catnip-grow-op-lo-res1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16025\" title=\"CNW  Catnip grow op lo res\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CNW-Catnip-grow-op-lo-res1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CNW-Catnip-grow-op-lo-res1.jpg 964w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CNW-Catnip-grow-op-lo-res1-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CNW-Catnip-grow-op-lo-res1-250x149.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cannibal Nympho Witch by FASTW\u00dcRMS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>October 12 &#8211; November 10, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>PAUL PETRO CONTEMPORARY ART<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FASTW\u00dcRMS, you cast a spell, or you c-a-t-s a spell? I haven\u2019t stopped thinking about Cannibal Nympho Witch, since it\u2019s opening earlier this month. On the walls, a series of feral felines greet us. One cat after the next, distorted and psychedelic, somehow both crossed-eyed and menacing, watch you watch them. Off-stream the flow of gallery-vanters, I find myself against a catnip grow-op tent that hums and emits lambent violet light. In the next room, a sculpture of a litter box\u2014complete with bronze cat excrement \u2014 is found at the bottom of the stairs, a familiar site for objects of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>Together, <em>Kim Kozzi<\/em> and <em>Dai Skuse<\/em> \u2014 <em>FASTW\u00dcRMS<\/em> duo since 1979\u2014 use subversive practices to build on what has become a panoply of multidisciplinary projects. As life partners and co-creators, Kossi and Skuse are free to play and engage in an art practice that feels entirely without self-consciousness or trepidation. The show, at times was like walking through the radiant conduit of a kaleidoscope, and had me questioning every turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Sarah Sands Phillips<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One cat after the next, distorted and psychedelic, somehow both crossed-eyed and menacing, watch you watch them<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=16024\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16024"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16056,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16024\/revisions\/16056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}