The past year CAFKA produced its 11th exhibition of art in the public spaces of the Region of Waterloo. CAFKA.16 featured a total of 30 artist projects, performances, projections and interventions, with fourteen projects produced by CAFKA, and joined by projects by the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, the Critical Media Lab, the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery and the Idea Exchange, Art & Design. Below is a fond look back at some of the highlights of this past year's biennial.
Jimmy Limit (St. Catharines, ON): Photos for Windows
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Robert McNair
Jaime Angelopoulos (Toronto): Swoon
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Michelle Purchase
Scenocosme (St. Étienne, FR): Akousmaflore
Produced by CAFKA
Videography: Marijana Vorkapic
Mary Ma (Mississauga): Wind Water Wave
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Robert McNair
Mary Ma (Mississauga): Wind Water Wave
Photo: Michelle Purchase
Paul Chartrand (Dunnville, ON): Percolator
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Robert McNair
Ed Pien (Toronto): Staging
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Robert McNair
Claire Ashley (Chicago): limes and bricks suck pink you tasteless hunk
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Robert McNair
Vanessa Yanow & John Tinholt (Montreal): By Hook or By Crook
Produced by Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery
Photo: Robert McNair
Lisa Birke (Kitchener): Bombshell
Produced by CAFKA
Video still
Meg Harder (Kitchener): Civilization of the Wild
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Robert McNair
Jaime Angelopoulos (Toronto): Swoon
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Robert McNair
David Jensenius (Kitchener): Telephone Booth
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Marijana Vorkapic
Acapulco (Quebec City): Monuments
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Robert McNair
GIF Reel: People of the Future, featuring Jennifer Chan (Toronto), Clint Enns (Toronto), Winston Hacking (Toronto), Jodie Mack (Chicago), Alison S. M. Kobayashi (Toronto/New York), Phillip David Stearns (Brooklyn)
Produced by Open Ears Festival of Musica and Sound
Photo: Robert McNair
David Jensenius (Kitchener): Telephone Booth
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Gordon Hatt
Jimmy Limit (St. Catharines): Photos for Windows
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Gordon Hatt
Scenocosme (St. Étienne, FR): Akousmaflore
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Victoria Kent
Dodolab (Guelph): To the Synanthropes
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Marijana Vorkapic
Tristan Perich (New York): Microtonal Wall
Produced by Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound
Photo: Gordon Hatt
Meg Harder (Kitchener): Civilization of the Wild
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Green Light Arts
Jamelie Hassan (London, ON), ﻚ [kaaf]
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Robert McNair
Jamelie Hassan (London, ON), ﻚ [kaaf]
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Robert McNair
Tristan Perich: Machine Drawing
Produced by Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound
Video: Gordon Hatt
Vessna Perunovich (Toronto): Shifting Shelter
Produced by University of Waterloo Art Gallery
Photo: Robert McNair
Zhaoyi Kang (Toronto), The Well
Produced by Idea Exchange Art & Design
Photo: Robert McNair
Rory MacDonald (Summerville, NS), blue lovers no landscape
Produced by Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery
Photo: Robert McNair
Ron Benner (London, ON): Transmission 101
Produced by Kitchener - Waterloo Art Gallery
Photo: Gordon Hatt
MAW Collective (Hamilton/Toronto): Untitled White Van
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Robert McNair
Lisa Birke: Bombshell
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Robert McNair
Adrian Stimson & Lori Blondeau (Saskatoon), Belle & Boy’s Savage Buffalo Happy Hour
Produced by University of Waterloo Art Gallery
Photo: Robert McNair
Francisco-Fernando Granados (Toronto), NEW PRIMARIES: fill in
Produced by University of Waterloo Art Gallery
Photo: Robert McNair
Nahed Mansour (Toronto), Safe
Produced by University of Waterloo Art Gallery
Photo: Robert McNair
Jaime Angelopoulos (Toronto): Swoon
Produced by CAFKA
Photo: Shaquille de Peazer
Ryan Maguire (Charlottesville, VA): The Ghost in the MP3
Produced by Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound
Photo: Robert McNair
Andrew McPhail (Hamilton): Insecure Ts
Produced by University of Waterloo Art Gallery
Photo: Robert McNair
CAFKA ARTIST PARTY FEATURING PURRPELLE // SCARLET SPADES // ADEEL KHAN + BJORN BORG COLLECTIVE
Photo: Al Doerksen