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

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Jaime Angelopoulos (Toronto): Swoon

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Michelle Purchase

 

Scenocosme (St. Étienne, FR): Akousmaflore

Produced by CAFKA

Videography: Marijana Vorkapic

 

Mary Ma (Mississauga): Wind Water Wave

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Mary Ma (Mississauga): Wind Water Wave

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Photo: Michelle Purchase

 

Paul Chartrand (Dunnville, ON): Percolator

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Ed Pien (Toronto): Staging

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Claire Ashley (Chicago): limes and bricks suck pink you tasteless hunk

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Vanessa Yanow & John Tinholt (Montreal): By Hook or By Crook

Produced by Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Lisa Birke (Kitchener): Bombshell

Produced by CAFKA

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Meg Harder (Kitchener): Civilization of the Wild

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Jaime Angelopoulos (Toronto): Swoon

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

David Jensenius (Kitchener): Telephone Booth

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Marijana Vorkapic

 

Acapulco (Quebec City): Monuments

Produced by CAFKA

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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

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

David Jensenius (Kitchener): Telephone Booth

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Gordon Hatt

 

Jimmy Limit (St. Catharines): Photos for Windows

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Gordon Hatt

 

Scenocosme (St. Étienne, FR): Akousmaflore

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Victoria Kent

 

Dodolab (Guelph): To the Synanthropes 

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Marijana Vorkapic

 

Tristan Perich (New York): Microtonal Wall

Produced by Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound

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Photo: Gordon Hatt

 

Meg Harder (Kitchener): Civilization of the Wild

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Green Light Arts

 

Jamelie Hassan (London, ON), ﻚ [kaaf]

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Jamelie Hassan (London, ON), ﻚ [kaaf]

Produced by CAFKA

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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

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Zhaoyi Kang (Toronto), The Well

Produced by Idea Exchange Art & Design

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Rory MacDonald (Summerville, NS), blue lovers no landscape

Produced by Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Ron Benner (London, ON): Transmission 101

Produced by Kitchener - Waterloo Art Gallery

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Photo: Gordon Hatt

 

MAW Collective (Hamilton/Toronto): Untitled White Van

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Lisa Birke: Bombshell

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Adrian Stimson & Lori Blondeau (Saskatoon), Belle & Boy’s Savage Buffalo Happy Hour

Produced by University of Waterloo Art Gallery

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Francisco-Fernando Granados (Toronto), NEW PRIMARIES: fill in

Produced by University of Waterloo Art Gallery

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Nahed Mansour (Toronto), Safe

Produced by University of Waterloo Art Gallery

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Jaime Angelopoulos (Toronto): Swoon

Produced by CAFKA

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Photo: Shaquille de Peazer

 

Ryan Maguire (Charlottesville, VA): The Ghost in the MP3

Produced by Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

Andrew McPhail (Hamilton): Insecure Ts

Produced by University of Waterloo Art Gallery

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Photo: Robert McNair

 

CAFKA ARTIST PARTY FEATURING PURRPELLE // SCARLET SPADES // ADEEL KHAN + BJORN BORG COLLECTIVE

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Photo: Al Doerksen

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