Once again Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013 transformed my city into a huge, interactive, indoor/outdoor art gallery. Just because you can’t see it all in one night doesn’t mean I wasn’t gonna try. This year I made the trek entirely on foot, covering about 20k of Toronto’s core and taking in around 40 of the exhibits . Although the event goes from sunset to sunrise I only made it until about 3:30 a.m. when the rain started and I realized the number of inebriated 20-somethings pouring out of clubs into the night was growing exponentially with every passing minute. That was my cue to call it a night. Taxi!

10 Favourite Exhibits from Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013

1. Hybrid Globe, Queens Park Crescent East & St. Joseph Street

Interactive Installation
Arthur Wrigglesworth, Mohammad Mehdi Ghiyaei & Mojtaba Samimi – Toronto, Canada

Hybrid Globe on University Ave.

2. Ferris Wheel, University Avenue & Dundas Street West

Sculpture
Katharine Harvey – Markham, Canada

    • I could have stayed at this one all night taking light painting shots.

    3. Light_Scape, The Bata Shoe Museum

    Interactive Installation

    [R]ed[U]x Lab

    • 4. Parallax, University Avenue & Edward Street

    Idea Tank Design Collective – Toronto, Canada

    Light Installation

    • 5. Forever Bicycles, Nathan Phillips Square

    Ai Weiwei – Beijing, China

    Installation

    • 6. Queen of the Parade, University Avenue & Queen Street West

    Video, Fashion, Performance Art

    Lisa Anita Wegner & Vanessa Lee Wishart – Toronto, Canada

    • Her point-of-view must have been amazing.

    7. Ad Astra, Bata Shoe Museum

    Light Installation

    Bata Shoe Museum & [R]ed[U]x Lab

    • R]ed[U]x Lab:
    Neveen Abdel-Aal – Designer – Toronto, Canada
    Ryan Giuricich, Jamie Kwan , Kevin Pu, Setareh Shams , Helena Skonieczna, Sandra Wojtecki , & Marcelle Andree Carneiro – Toronto, Canada

    8. Monster Child, Queens Park Crescent East & College Street

    Interactive Installation

    Libby Hague – Toronto, Canada

    • 9. The rose is without why, Nathan Phillips Square

    Sculpture

    Boris Achour – Paris, France

    • “The rose is without why, it blooms because it blooms, it cares not for itself, asks not if it is seen”

    10. lightbridge, Front Street West & Portland Street

    Light and Sound Installation

    Nathan Whitford – Toronto, Canada
    Konstantinos Mavromichalis – London, UK
    John Farah – Toronto, Canada
    Sarah Keenlyside – Toronto, Canada

    • Additional Exhibits

    Garden Tower in Toronto, on Oct 1st pre-event
    Garden Tower in Toronto, Metropolitain United Church
    EIS SEGUNDOS DE TODO EL MUNDO (Six Seconds from Everyone), New Media Installation, Hayden St., Geoffrey Shea & Rob King – Toronto, Canada
    THE ILLUSION OF LINEAR TIME, Light Installation, The Four Seasons Hotel
    THE ILLUSION OF LINEAR TIME, Kagame Murray – Toronto, Canada
    RevitaLight, [R]ed[U]x Lab
    RevitaLight, Installation, Bata Shoe Museum
    The Trappings of Power, Sculpture, David Pecaut Square
    The Trappings of Power, Robin Tinney – Toronto, Canada
    Tanks, Cal Lane – Putnam Valley, New York, USA
    Tanks, Sculpture, David Pecaut Square
    Fight or flight, Kinetic Sculpture, Roy Thompson Hall pool, Peter Flemming – Montréal, Canada
    Subaru Art Car, Mural, King St. West & York St.
    Subaru Art Car, Gene Pendon
    Pink Punch v.2, Light Installation, First Canadian Place, Polymetis Michaela MacLeod – New York, USA Nicholas Croft – New York, USA
    The (Re) Generator Project, Interactive Multimedia Installation, Yonge & Dundas, Chinedu Ukabam & Gabrielle Lasporte – Toronto, Canada
    he Anthropocene, Caledonia Dance Curry – Brooklyn, USA Swoon – Brooklyn, USA
    The Anthropocene, Mixed Media Installation, Temperance St.
    Clothesline Canopy, Installation, Bell Trinity Square, Sherri Newman, Tara Gaskin, Kristiana Schuhmann, Zack Eisenstein, Selen Levi, Megan Carroll, Sam Bruegger & William Vachon
    The Big Crunch, Installation, 1 Trinity Square, Franck Scurti – Paris, France
    Mariner 9 | See the blog post for more pix and info
    Mariner 9, Video Installation, Commerce Court
    PLASTIC BAGS, Pascale Marthine Tayou – Ghent, Belgium
    PLASTIC BAGS, Sculpture, Bell Trinity Square
    Music Box, University Avenue & Armoury Street, John Dickson, – Toronto, Canada
    Toaster Work Wagon, Sculpture, Osgoode Rotunda Laneway, Kim Adams – Toronto, Canada
    (X)Static Clown Factory, Multi-media and street performance, University Avenue & Gerrard Street West
    (X)Static Clown Factory, Ruth Spitzer & Claire Ironside – Toronto, Canada
    Cancer is our Story (Overcome), Max Dean & Joel S. Silver – Toronto, Canada
    Cancer is our Story (Overcome), Video Installation, University Avenue & Orde Street
    Rumbling Drumlins, Installation, University Avenue & College Street
    Rumbling Drumlins, AGATHOM Co. – Toronto, Canada
    This I Build For You, Queens Park Crescent East at Grosvenor Street, David R. Harper – Toronto, ON
    Human Sweat Generator, Warren Quigley – Ridgeway, Canada
    Human Sweat Generator, Interactive Installation, Queens Park Crescent East & Wellesley Street West
    A Quack Cure, A Quack Cure, Lisa Hirmer, as DodoLab – Guelph, Canada
    A Quack Cure, Performance Art
    A Quack Cure, Performance Art
    A Quack Cure, Queens Park Crescent East & Wellesley Street West
    The Other Side of the Gardiner, Installation, Bathurst & Fort York Blvd
    The Other Side of the Gardiner
    The Other Side of the Gardiner, Abraham Galway and Lauren Poon
    The Somnambulist, Installation, 589 Queen Street West, Moss and Lam – Toronto, Canada
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    2 Comments

    1. Hello Susan,

      That is nice a photo of my work ‘Fight or fight’ that you have. Would you mind if I use it as part of documentation of the project? It would never be for any commercial use. I would put it on my art website (see link) and possibly use as illustration of my work in proposals etc. You would be credited as photographer, of course.

      If yes, would you have a high res version you could email me?

      thanks and all the best,

      Peter

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