5 installations to check out at Nuit Blanche 2014
Posted October 4, 2014 12:22 pm.
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Saturday night marks the ninth annual Nuit Blanche, which turns downtown Toronto into a living art gallery.
Here are a just a handful of installations that you might want to check out between 6:53 p.m. Saturday and sunrise on Sunday morning.
Screaming Booth
Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin of Montreal provides the public with a soundproofed booth (three of them, actually, spread across the downtown) where you can yell without “disturbing anyone, appearing crazy, or alarming your friends without cause.”
The artist statement says that the installation “examines the relationship between city dwellers and their environment, focusing on the inhibitions that individuals internalize in public spaces. It is a solution to the lack of places in the city where we can freely express our emotions. It offers instead a place of release, where screams no longer have to be suppressed.”
Where: There are three spots to “yell it out:” 280 Spadina Ave. (southwest corner at Dundas Street West), 290 Queen St. W. (north side, between Soho Street and Beverley Street) and 180 Spadina Ave. (east side, north of Queen Street West).
Made In China, 2014
CityNews reporter Stella Acquisto tells us all about the installation by Maria Ezcurra, which has already been turning heads downtown.
Where: 330 Spadina Ave., north of Dundas Street West.
Background Scenery #2
Toronto’s Brianna Lowe presents a video installation project described as “a collection of pilfered movie landscapes, stripped of human presence then reanimated with a virtual camera,” becoming “slippery and shifting like online geographies” of cultural sites and shared pop culture memories.
Where: Magic Lantern Theatres Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton St. (just east of College subway station).
Wisdom of the North: Moose Cree and Attawapiskat
The photography installation by Toronto’s Johan Hallberg-Campbell documents his time travelling with the Canadian Red Cross to photograph volunteers working in the many communities needing their help, including Moose Cree and Attawapiskat.
Where: Metro Hall, on the walls on the south side of King Street West, just east of John Street.
Écoute pour voir, The Esplanade moves
Emmanuel Jouthe of Montreal presents a series of “short movement-based performances” along The Esplanade’s promenade throughout the night.
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Where: The Esplanade and Berkeley Street.
