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Barbershop window on Bloor Street near Lansdowne, image courtesy of Lisa Neighbour
Orest Tataryn Bloor NIGHTLIGHT 2007 Bloor Street near Lansdowne for Nuit Blanche
Roti window on Bloor Street near Lansdowne, image courtesy of Lisa Neighbour
Heather Nichol Bloor NIGHTLIGHT 2007 Bloor Street near Lansdowne for Nuit Blanche
Lyla Rye's DVD projection in the Carla Garnet Project 2007 Bloor Street near Lansdowne
for Nuit Blanche
Bloor NIGHTLIGHT was a partnership Nuit Blanche event, meaning an all-volunteer grass-roots effort without official Nuit Blanche sources of funding for creation or installation.
(ahem ahem ahem ahem ahem ahem ahem ahem ahem ahem.)
Rachel McRae ABOMASUM 2007 chocolate, mixed media, pre-performance
Rachel McRae ABOMASUM 2007 performance shot
Rachel McRae ABOMASUM 2007 post-performance
This was my favourite performance, the middle image does not fully convey her grim determination during the slaughter of the deer. GVB & Sally stood well back of the cleaver action. (Rachel's blog.)
 Martin Reis (aka Tino) as Le Facteur (inspired by Jacques Tati), Nuit Noire, Sept. 29, 2007 Photo: Wendy Lucas  The personalised telegram I received, much to my surprise when we happend across Le Facteur on a street corner (scan by L.M.) |
Lisa Neighbour - WELCOME ALL FLIES 2007 installation for NIGHT SCHOOL at Hart House
during Nuit Blanche
Gordon Hicks - LIGHT RAIN TONIGHT 2007 polycarbonate, plumbing, water
20 inches diameter, 3.5 litres per hour
Gordon Hicks - LIGHT RAIN TONIGHT 2007
installation view on Bloor Street near Lansdowne for Nuit Blanche
Part of Bloor NIGHTLIGHT, during Nuit Blanche, this is one of ten Streetlight Sculptures - a project curated by Orest Tataryn. Other streetlights were by Lois Andison, Matthew Birch, Anne O'Callaghan, Thrush Holmes, Heather Nicol, Jonathan Sabine, Orest Tataryn, Christy Thompson and John Wilcox.
Sara Milroy reviewed Nuit Blanche
"A thought for next year. True, some of the real delights of the evening were the small things, like the stuffed architectural model of the city of Toronto by the UpBag collective, which we discovered by chance in a hallway at 401 Richmond. (I particularly enjoyed the Mies towers rendered in black corduroy, and the knitted CN Tower.) But the big guns - The Power Plant, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, the Royal Ontario Museum - were all more or less passive (throwing dance parties or staying open late to show your regular programming doesn't count), leaving it to Barbara Fischer at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, at Hart House, University of Toronto, to be the only museum director in town to catch the Nuit Blanche fever. Her Night School program was packed with onlookers when we checked in.I agree with the statement "what's wrong with these people?" but I have a problem with her solution of simply pouring more money onto their turf. I know too many artists who put together superlative pieces with very little funding, if any at all, so excuse my peevishness on this point.
What's wrong with these people? We shouldn't really need to apply the heart paddles - they are supposed to be the folks that believe in art, after all - but if heart paddles are indeed required, maybe the city/sponsors of Nuit Blanche or other patrons should consider grants to these leading centres to fund one major one-night-only project either in their gallery space or out in the city. (How about $20,000 each?)"