Geoff Bland, Pay Katsuyuki,
Angus MacPherson, Steve Newberry,
Jennifer Norman, Hitoko Okada
Aleksandra Rdest, Reiko Shimizu,
Daisuke Takeya, Rhya Tamasauskas
A Collection of Foreign Objects (ACOFO) was founded in Japan in 2003 by a group of Canadian artists
living there at the time. These artists saw the important connections between the artwork they were
producing and the work produced by their Japanese contemporaries.
As a collective our goals are:
1) to promote young Canadian and Japanese artists to new audiences,
2) to facilitate connection, communication, and collaboration between young artists, and
3) to challenge audiences to see new things, and to enter into the unexpected.
A Collection of Foreign Objects [ website ]
Steve Newberry [ bio ]
[ cv ]
[ contact ]
Rhya Tamasauskas [ bio ]
[ cv ]
[ contact ]
Island Hopping: A Collection of Foreign Objects
Sculpture/Installation
[ selected photographs ]
Locations:
- Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park
- Wymilwood Student Building, Victoria University, 150 Charles Street West
- Ontario Ombudsman, 125 Queen's Park
- Emmanuel College, Victoria University, 75 Queen's Park Crescent
- Northrup Frye Hall, Victoria University, 73 Queen's Park Crescent
- Isabel Bader Theatre, Victoria University, 93 Charles Street West
If stuck amidst the asphalt and concrete for too long, the average urban dweller will inevitably talk about
escaping the city for a little while. When Torontonians think of escaping, they think of exotic places: a
secluded beach, a hiking expedition, a tropical paradise – anything but pavement. For one night, at the
intersection where cityscape meets dreamscape, the dreamy qualities of a vacation in paradise were brought
to the city sidewalks.
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