Events
Between biennials, CAFKA is very active producing and co-producing a number of special events. CAFKA’s events are intended to facilitate connections between people, to introduce our organization to the community and to initiate a critical dialogue around the issues of contemporary art in public spaces.
CAFKA produces a bi-annual video cabaret we affectionately call "I Heart Video Art," a social event around the presentation of some of the most interesting and lively examples of contemporary video art. CAFKA also participates in community arts initiatives such as the Steel Rails Sessions and FEST 3, where a number of cultural organizations collaborate to create memorable cross-disciplinary events.
Steel Rails II: Preloved Actions by Johannes Zits, 24-06-2011
On June 24, CAFKA will be participating in Steel Rail Sessions II. Organized by RQ Magazine’s Hilary Abel and Neal Moogk-Soulis of the Waterloo Central Railway, the Steel Rail Sessions is an art party on the train running between Waterloo and St. Jacobs. The event will feature great food, great music and great art installations and performances on each car.
In the CAFKA car we will be featuring Preloved Actions by performance artist Johannes Zits. In this work, Zits’ manipulates clothing once worn by others, to contemplate the bodies that may have at one time filled those clothes. Zits’ manipulations and interactions with clothing often confound their original intent as physical covering and fashion statements. Over the course of a performance a single item of clothing may be interpreted and worn in a variety of different ways, challenging and reinventing clothing as a medium of concealment and expression.
Johannes Zits will be accompanied in the performance by Miranda EJ Warner and by the percussionist An-D.
