Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2010 program announced
The City of Toronto today announced the entire artistic program
for the fifth edition of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, featuring 40
City-produced exhibition projects and 93 community-produced
independent projects taking place on October 2. This year's
event will also present a series of special events celebrating
the fifth anniversary and extending Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
beyond one night.
“This five-year milestone offers a great opportunity to not only
look back and celebrate the successes of the first four years,
but also look forward to the growth and expansion of Scotiabank
Nuit Blanche as one of Canada’s marquee art events,” said Rita
Davies, Executive Director Culture, City of Toronto. “Once
again, our diverse and dynamic artistic community has developed
a robust program that will delight and challenge audiences and
transform Toronto’s streets into a nocturnal playground of
contemporary art.”
City-produced exhibition highlights
The City-produced exhibition projects will be positioned
directly on the Yonge-University TTC subway line. Yonge Street
will be entirely closed to car traffic between Bloor Street and
Front Street, giving pedestrians safe and easy access to the
exhibitions.
Curator Gerald McMaster’s exhibition entitled “The Good Night”
features 10 projects in and around Yorkville, from Yonge Street
to St. George.
Highlights include the Lower Bay Station, which will become an
interactive landscape of light in Daan Roosegaarde’s
installation "Interactive Landscape Dune", while the Village of
Yorkville Park will feature a billion-year-old chunk of the
Canadian Shield transformed into the pulsing heart of Mother
Earth by Kent Monkman’s alter-ego Miss Chief Eagle Testikle in
"Iskootāo".
Anthony Kiendl will curate seven projects along the west side of
Yonge Street from Dundas Street to Queen Street West in “Sound
and Vision.” Nathan Phillips Square will be transformed into a
sensory oasis as Daniel Lanois prepares, produces and performs
the soundtrack to a multi-channel, multi-screen media experience
in "Later That Night at the Drive-In". Atop the new Podium Green
Roof at City Hall, Dan Graham’s "Performance Café with
Perforated Sides" will feature one of the artist’s
world-renowned reflective pavilions, beckoning as a space for
human interaction on a grand or intimate scale.
Sarah Robayo Sheridan’s exhibition entitled “The Night of Future
Past” will be located on the east side of Yonge from Carlton
Street south to Queen Street. She will curate eight projects,
including Ryan Gander’s "Just Because You Can Feel It, Doesn’t
Mean It’s There", which will set Yonge-Dundas Square ablaze in a
social sculpture of ambiguous designation but of unmistakable
scale and presence. In "Reunion" on the Ryerson Theatre Stage,
the historic artistic convergence of the same name that occurred
in 1968 will be celebrated and remounted by local and
international performers influenced by the twin legacies of
Marcel Duchamp and John Cage.
Christof Migone will curate 15 projects in the Financial
District, straddling Yonge Street from Queen Street to Front
Street. “Should I Stay or Should I Go” will feature Max
Streicher’s "Endgame (Coulrophobia)", which will either delight
or frighten audiences who discover the giant inflatable clown
heads wedged between two buildings in a back alley.
At Commerce Court, Davide Balula’s performance entitled "The
Endless Pace" will feature 60 dancers mimicking the passage of
time in a clock formed from human movement. Kim Adams’ "Auto
Lamp" will become a beacon of light for night owls; a sculptural
lighthouse on land at the corner of Yonge and Queen. At
Brookfield Place, Martin Arnold and Micah Lexier have
collaborated to present "Erik Satie’s Vexations" - two pianos
playing a score simultaneously 840 times over 12 hours - the
first time this difficult score has been played in such a way
and in such short a time.
Community-produced independent exhibition highlights The
community-produced portion of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche will
feature new or existing installations created by cultural and
educational institutions, neighbourhoods and individual artists
that extend the boundaries of the event city-wide and showcase
the diversity of Toronto’s arts community. Casa Loma, CN Tower,
the Bata Shoe Museum, Ryerson University, TIFF and many more
organizations are hosting important projects in their unique
venues. Entire neighbourhoods like Parkdale, Liberty Village,
Queen West, the Distillery District and the area in and around
Trinity Bellwoods Park will feature multiple installations by
local artists.
Fifth anniversary program
Starting September 20 until October 3, a retrospective
exhibition titled "Some Enchanted Evenings" celebrating the
first four years of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche will be showcased at
Scotia Plaza, 40 King St. W. Selected artworks by past artists,
as well as photos and video will be featured in an exhibition
curated by Fern Bayer, one of the original curators from 2006.
To further commemorate the fifth anniversary, "Nuit Talks" will
offer an engaging series of talks covering five topics in five
venues over five days.
The discussions will explore the boundaries of contemporary art
in public space within the context of the event - and will
include an intimate conversation with Jian Gomeshi and Daniel
Lanois, as well as other diverse examinations of the event’s
influence on the commercial contemporary art market, the
curatorial process and more. A full list of events, speakers,
locations and times can be found online.
Full programming details are available at
http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca.
The public can sign up for the e-newsletter on the website,
follow @sbnuitblancheTO on Twitter, or visit
www.facebook.com/sbnuitblancheTO for behind the scenes
information and updates as the event draws near.
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is Toronto’s annual all-night
celebration of contemporary art, produced by the City of Toronto
in collaboration with Toronto’s arts community. It has been
honoured with the prestigious Urban Leadership Award and the
Globe and Mail Business for the Arts Award and was voted by Now
Magazine as Toronto’s "Best Art Event" in 2008 and 2009.
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