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CAFKA Contemporary Art Forum Probing into the Distance Kitchener and Area September 20 - 28 2003 Projects by: janet bellotto TORONTO marianne corless VICTORIA linda duvall SASKATOON david floren VANCOUVER juan geuer ALMONTE, ON david hunsberger KITCHENER instant coffee TORONTO luis jacob TORONTO lisa kalpstock TORONTO valerie lamontagne MONTREAL jillian mcdonald BROOKLYN system hm2t LENGE, GERMANY vessna perunovich TORONTO micheal pinsky LONDON, UK mark prier TORONTO ping qui BERLIN ilan sandler HALIFAX susan schuppli LONDON, ON robert sprachman TORONTO ed video GUELPH 20 International artists take over Kitchener's downtown for "Probing into the Distance" from September 20th to September 28th, 2003. Kitchener's annual exhibition of international contemporary art, Contemporary Art Forum | Kitchener and Area.03 (CAFKA) takes place from September 20th- 28th, 2003 at Kitchener City Hall and in Downtown Kitchener. One of the most original visual art festivals in Canada, Contemporary Art Forum takes cutting edge art out of the galleries and brings it to street level for 9 days each September. Artists are on hand to animate their innovative works: sculpture, installation, performance, video, and all forms of artistic intervention into the urban landscape. The thematic title, "Probing into the Distance" was chosen to mark the 150th anniversary of the Waterloo Region. The phrase is an excerpt from Northrop Frye's The Bush Garden (House of Anansi Press, 1971), p.222: "The sense of probing into the distance, of fixing the eyes on the skyline, is something that Canadian sensibility has inherited from the voyageurs." Artists were asked to consider landscape, mapping, boarders, and ways in which we parcel and understand the very ground that sustains us. Many of the projects deal specifically with these issues, while others could be termed as exploration and experimentation using these ideas as aesthetic starting points. On September 20th, Kitchener will welcome 20 artists from across Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and China. Round Table Discussions feature an impressive roster of museum, arts, and academic professionals who will debate issues related to art in the information age, and the landscape as a site for belonging. Contemporary Art Forum | Kitchener and Area P.O Box 1122, 141 Whitney Place Kitchener, ON N2G 4G1 Canada tel (519) 744-5123 fax (519) 744-9342 cafka@contemporaryartforum.ca http://www.contemporaryartforum.ca instant coffee vanning the kitch |
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