Nuit Blanche 2015 / Artoronto.ca Picks

Saturday, October 3, 2015 / from sunset to sunrise

Nuit Blanche is as exciting as ever and all the city is preparing for the events. It is larger this year, so it would be easier to see more shows and performances. It would be an interesting and busy night for thousand of people for sure. Hopefully it wouldn’t rain all night so go out and have fun.

Here are our Picks:

PHIL ANDERSON, publisher:

Silent Knight  / Ekow Nimako, Toronto
50,000 pieces of lego
The Gardiner Museum  (Outdoor Platform)
111 Queen’s Park

Silent Knight by Ekow Nimako,

Beaufort 10: Frio Estudio del Desastre, 2014 / Los Carpinteros
Installation
Exterior of Westin Harbour Castle
1 Harbour Square

Beaufort 10: Frio Estudio del Desastre, 2014 by Los Carpinteros

Music Everywhere I Know I learned the Day My Son Was Born, 2015, / Alfredo Jaar, Santiago de Cuba
Sound Installation
Allan Gardens Conservatory
19 Horticultural Avenue

Music Everywhere I Know I learned the Day My Son Was Born, 2015, / Alfredo Jaar

EMESE KRUNÁK-HAJAGOS, publisher:

Inside Out, 2011 – 2015 / JR – Paris & New York, France & USA
Photography Installation, Interactive Installation
City Hall
100 Queen Street West

Inside Out, 2011 – 2015 by JR

Light Cave, 2014 / Friends WithYou – Los Angeles, USA
Installation
Drake One Fifty (Lower Patio)
150 York Street (Accessible entrance available at 181 University Street.

Light Cave, 2014 by Friends WithYou

Genesis: Memory Lane
Interactive Installation featuring 15 artists and nine stunning large-scale installationsInteractive Installation featuring 15 artists and nine stunning large-scale installation
Spadina Museum
285 Spadina Road (Accessible via the Dupont and St. Clair West Stations. Walk north on Spadina from Dupont or south on Spadina from St. Clair)

Genesis: Memory Lane

STEVE ROCKWELL, publisher:

Time of the Empress, 2012 / Aziz + Cucher – New York City, USA
New Media Installation
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
252 Bloor Street West (Best viewed from across the street, on Bloor Street and Devonshire Place, next to Varsity Stadium)

Time of the Empress, 2012 by Aziz + Cucher

Music Everywhere I Know I learned the Day My Son Was Born, 2015, / Alfredo Jaar, Santiago de Cuba
Sound Installation
Allan Gardens Conservatory
19 Horticultural Avenue

Untitled, 2015 / Tania Bruguera – Havana, Cuba
Decontextualization of an action, Stage, Podium.
College Street & University Avenue – outdoors

Untitled, 2015 by Tania Bruguera

SUNNY KIM, writer/photographer:

Memory Alley – Toronto Fringe – Toronto, Canada
Performance Art
Honest Ed’s Alley
581 Bloor Street West (In the Allleyway)

Memory Alley

Domestic motion, 2005 / Olafur Eliasson – Copenhagen, Denmark
Light Installation
Union Station – Great Hall
65 Front Street West (Inside the Front Street main entrance in the Great Hall)

LEVIATHAN,  2015 / Johnny Hockin – Toronto, Canada, Thomas Cade – Toronto, Canada
Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street

LEVIATHAN,  2015 / Johnny Hockin

KATIE LAWSON, writer/photographer:

an occasion hosted by Isabel Lewis, 2014 / Isabel Lewis
AGO Walker Court
317 Dundas Street West

an occasion hosted by Isabel Lewis

Beaufort 10: Frio Estudio del Desastre , 2014 / Los Carpinteros
Installation
Exterior of Westin Harbour Castle
1 Harbour Square

Fugue by the Collective 7 ± 2 / 7:00-7:30
Interactive performance
Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street, both indoors and outdoors

Fugue by the Collective 7 ± 2

CATHERINE MACARTHUR FALLS, writer/photographer:

Domestic Motion, 2005 – Olafur Eliasson – Copenhagen, Denmark
Light Installation
Union Station, Great Hall
65 Front Street West (Inside the Front Street main entrance in the Great Hall) – indoors

Domestic Motion, 2005 by Olafur Eliasson

Creatures of Memory, 2015 – Juliana Neufeld – Toronto, Canada
Sculpture
Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street (First floor hallway display cases) – indoors

Odd shores, 2015

Reverence in Reverie, 2015 – Mary Ma – Toronto , Canada
Projection
St. George the Martyr Anglican Church, 197 John Street – indoors

Reverence in Reverie, 2015 by Mary Ma 

DAVID SARIC, writer/photographer

Beaufort 6: Hit, 2014 / Christof Migone, Toronto
Performance Art and Sound Installation
Queens Quay E. & Cooper St. (In park)

Beaufort 6: Hit, 2014 / Christof Migone

Beaufort 10: Frio Estudio del Desastre , 2014 / Los Carpinteros
Installation
Exterior of Westin Harbour Castle
1 Harbour Square

SIMON TERMINE, writer/photographer:

Beaufort 4: Lava Field No. 2, 2015 / Robert Wysocki – Syracuse, USA
Land Art
51 Dockside
51 Dockside Drive (The Lava Pour takes place on the parking lot north of George Brown College)

Beaufort 4: Lava Field No. 2, 2015 / Robert Wysocki

Beaufort 7: Destroyer and Preserver; hear o hear!, 2015 / Jon Sasaki
Installation
On the Waterfront Trail south of Queens Quay Terminal
Queens Quay East & The Waterfront Trail (Access at York Street and Queens Quay West)

Beaufort 12: Black Cloud, 2007 / Carlos Amorales, Mexico City, Mexico
Installation
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
231 Queens Quay West 

Beaufort 12: Black Cloud, 2007 / Carlos Amorales

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