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15/9/2011

CAFKA.11. Survive. Resist.

Different locations, Waterloo and Cambridge

The Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area announces its fall biennial program, CAFKA.11. Survive. Resist. running from September 16 through October 2, 2011.

The 8th edition of the Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area’s (CAFKA) exhibition of contemporary art projects in public places will open on September 16, 2011. The biennial exhibition began at the Kitchener City Hall in 2000, and since that time it has grown every year. It has grown in duration from a weekend festival of visual art to a 17-day program. It has expanded beyond the Kitchener City Hall to take place throughout Kitchener’s downtown and now embraces the neighbouring municipalities of Waterloo and Cambridge. Each year CAFKA’s projects, installations and projections are more ambitious.

Focussing on art in public spaces, the CAFKA programming committee has identified some of the most interesting work in contemporary public art and has invited these artists to develop projects for the biennial. In recognition of the variety of strategies employed by contemporary artists to negotiate the complex social, political, psychological and aesthetic terrain of a looming ecological dystopia, the theme for the 2011 biennial will be SURVIVE. RESIST.

New initiatives this year include CAFKA’s collaboration with its lead corporate sponsor, Christie, to develop content using Christie’s new 3-D imaging cave at the Communitech Hub. CAFKA has invited Guelph-based video artist Jenn E. Norton to work with lead engineers at Christie to develop her work Tesseract, will be presented during the biennial.

CAFKA will be collaborating with the 2011 conference of the Society for Literature, Science and Art (SLSA), which will take place in Kitchener the second weekend of the exhibition. The SLSA is an international academic society that explores the problems of science and representation, and the cultural and social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. Academics from across North America and Europe will present papers and participate in symposia. The SLSA conference will take place during CAFKA’s second weekend (September 22 - 25).

CAFKA will also be collaborating with various organizations who are presenting programming in concert with CAFKA. These organizations include Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge Sculpture Garden, The Critical Media Lab, Communitech HUB, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Clay & Glass Gallery, THEMUSEUM, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, and Sceneverse.

Artists featured in SURVIVE. RESIST. will be Michael Ambedian and Sheila McMath (Kitchener, ON) BGL (Quebec City, QC); Broken City Lab (Windsor, ON); Andrew Burton (Newcastle on Tyne, UK); Vincent Chevalier (Montreal, QC); David Clark, Kim Morgan, Rachelle Viader Knowles & David Ogborn (Halifax, NS, Regina, SK, Hamilton, ON); David Court (Queens, NY); Patrick Cull & Barbara Hobot (Kitchener, ON); Soheila Esfahani (Kitchener, ON); Lauren Hall (Kitchener, ON); Lucy Howe (Windsor, ON); Mammalian Diving Reflex (Toronto, ON); Zeke Moores (Windsor, ON); Jenn E. Norton (Guelph, ON); Mary Catherine Newcomb (Kitchener, ON); Roadsworth (Montreal, QC); spurse (USA); Reece Terris (Vancouver, BC); Aislinn Thomas (Whycocomagh, NS); Walter Van Broekhuizen (Amsterdam, NL).

CAFKA is supported by Ontario Trillium Foundation, Musagetes, Christie, the City of Kitchener, Scribblers’ Club, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund, the Ontario Arts Council, Sceneverse, Walter Fedy Partnership, Kitchener Wilmot Hydro, City of Waterloo, Research In Motion, Bingemans and by our members and individual donors.

Image: BGL - Fancy Fences, Waterloo Town Square. 75 King Street South. Waterloo, N2J 1P2

Between biennials, CAFKA is very active producing and co-producing a number of special events. Full program on http://cafka.org

Opening Reception Saturday, September 17, 2011
Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St. W., Kitchener 7 - 10 PM
Performance: Best Biscuit by Aislinn Thomas, Sat. Sept. 17, 12 - 1 PM
Admission to this CAFKA event is free and everyone is welcome!

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