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Post by kelvin on Oct 4, 2008 17:04:07 GMT -5
www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/For one sleepless night, experience Toronto transformed by artists. Discover art in galleries, museums and unexpected places. From bridges and tunnels to warehouses and stadiums, choose from more than 155 destinations and chart your own path.
October 4, 2008
6:52 pm to sunriseCheck the 2008 Nuit Blanche Programme to see which exhibitions to go to! www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/zone.shtmlPublic WashroomsYonge-Dundas Square Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen OCAD, 100 McCaul Maple Leaf Gardens, 60 Carlton College Park, 444 Yonge Toronto Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge Metro Central YMCA, 20 Grosvenor Queen's Park North Parkette Scotia Plaza, 40 King West St. James Park, 65 Church Rainbow Cinemas, 80 Front East Lamport Stadium and parking lot, 1155 King West Exhibition Place Metro (Dominion) parking lot, 100 Lynn Williams Studio City, 1 Pardee
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Post by kelvin on Oct 4, 2008 17:13:16 GMT -5
Zone A Samples
Scintillator AGO Light Installationwww.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/iProjects.aspx?zone=A&rowID=2"As the AGO completes its transformation project, artist Leo Villareal will create a special Nuit Blanche metamorphosis of the Gallery's south facade. Responding to the architecture of Frank Gehry, Villareal will create light installation at the top of the AGO's new south tower." Stereoscope at Toronto City Hallwww.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/exhibition.aspx?zone=A&rowID=0"Stereoscope is an interactive light installation at Toronto City Hall. This installation by the German group Project Blinkenlights transforms the landmark towers into a huge display screen by arranging lamps behind each of the 960 windows of the building." Domaine de l'angle at Massey Hallwww.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/exhibition.aspx?zone=A&rowID=0"The Quebec City-based art collective BGL is known for installations that take over architecture and wryly comment on institutional space. BGL will construct a 40 metre long drop ceiling in the alley of St. Enoch's Square beside Massey Hall, framing the dumpsters, recycling bins and other life of the alleyway in the cool fluorescent light of the modern office." Fifteen Seconds at Dundas Squarewww.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/exhibition.aspx?zone=A&rowID=3"Daniel Olson's work, "Fifteen Seconds", is inspired by Andy Warhol's famous dictum, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes." From a small guard tower equipped with a follow spot - a familiar scenario appearing in countless films - Olson will highlight certain people, transforming them into instant celebrities. In this performance everyone is offered the chance to have their moment of fame." Into the Blue at Eaton's Centrewww.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/exhibition.aspx?zone=A&rowID=1"Fujiwara Takahiro's "Into the Blue" is a giant, illuminated, transparent cone-shaped balloon. Its shape is achieved through the stacking of inflatable donut-shaped soft acrylic tubes of successively diminishing sizes." Zombies in Condoland in College Parkwww.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/exhibition.aspx?zone=A&rowID=5"Zombies in Condoland is a series of night actions that mimic a film screening set for a low-budget horror film such as the type made famous by George Romero. Anyone can participate and be a zombie. They are encouraged also to do their makeup en route, in cafes, bars, and mass transit. There will also be make-up tents and zombie clothing available on site."
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Post by kelvin on Oct 4, 2008 17:19:29 GMT -5
Zone B SamplesHorroridor at Union Stationwww.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/exhibition.aspx?zone=B&rowID=1"Horroridor is a multi-channel DVD installation utilizing found footage from horror-thriller movies..."Horroridor" strips away narrative to a non-articulated response of rage, pain and frustration, by isolating media recordings of men and women screaming to unknown forces that threaten existence. Viewers will be guided toward a long corridor where they will pass through the approximately 20-foot dual projections of visual and audio recordings of hundreds of people screaming on either side of them. Parental guidance advised." Toronto Nocturnes Iwww.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/exhibition.aspx?zone=B&rowID=2"In The Nocturns, (night shots), the city is seen with a new focus. Without people, the artefacts are more visible, and together, build an essential, memorable cityscape. Photography is the best medium to represent this night life without humans. The medium is quite unable to 'fix' or suspend life, because life, like time, is fleeting. The exact moment the shot was taken no longer exists."
Don Coyote & Quixotic at St. James Cathedralwww.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/exhibition.aspx?zone=B&rowID=6"Matt Masters, Terrance Houle and a six piece band present an intimate Western cabaret called "Don Coyote" in St. James Church. Andrew Ager, organist of St. James Cathedral, will fill this magnificent landmark in downtown Toronto with the thrilling sounds of improvised and composed works between performances. QUIXOTIC: a phantasmagoric roaming ritual. Composed of live performance, projected video, and found audio, watch as "La momma morta" reveals herself in protest as a spectral divine."
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Post by kelvin on Oct 4, 2008 17:21:02 GMT -5
Zone C SamplesUNTITLEDwww.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/exhibition.aspx?zone=C&rowID=0"Seven figures are dressed in camouflage, a fashion which has become increasingly popular since the War on Terror campaign. Click on the figures and they move. They copy, they imitate. Click one, click two. Choose a leader. Become a leader, and the rest will follow. Exercise 1-2-3-4. One Bend. Two Bend. Three Bend. Stay Look Straight - Don't See - STAY. We allow the media to think for us and amputate individual reasoning. Mental and physical activity slip from the mechanical to the mindless; into fear, chaos and violence against an enemy that does not exist." Future (? ? ? - - - ? ? ?) Perfect in the parking lotwww.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/exhibition.aspx?zone=C&rowID=1"Pulsing with a dramatic lighting score indicating S-O-S in Morse code, Brendan Fernandes' towering installation of shipping containers addresses the trauma of migration, displacement and change. The work has a local relevance, reflecting on the politics of gentrification and the displacements inherent to the project of urban renewal."
Overflow at the former Prison Chapelwww.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/exhibition.aspx?zone=C&rowID=5"2007 Sobey Award winner Michel de Broin is known for suspending a mobile home from a crane, creating a bicycle that generates its own smoke and converting a 1987 Buick Regal into a pedal-operated vehicle. For Nuit Blanche de Broin continues his investigations into resistance, reorganization and chaos with a waterfall flowing from a third story window."
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