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Russell Smith: "Eat your heart out, Toronto-haters: Forget cerebral interpretations of the art, the party is the message of Toronto's Nuit Blanche event"... a snippet:
The citizens now understand, having experienced these odd interventions – projections, groups of people in costumes, giant inflatable rabbits – that this kind of art is not appreciable in terms of what it means, like a riddle: It's about a group experience. It only means what happens when there is a crowd interacting around it. If the artists had a clear message, they would have written an essay. (Some of them, of course, have done so: Those are the weaker ones.) People are going out in masses for that group experience. This represents the victory, really, of so-called impenetrable contemporary art: It has got around the problem of interpretation, it has shown a suspicious audience that their own reactions, unfiltered by museums' didactic panels and audio guides, constitute the work's explanation. The party is the message.
Fastwürms - Skry-Pod 2009 Nuit blanche in the Sheraton Center Waterfall gardens
Beth Stuart and R.M. Vaughan reading tarot with their iPods on the second floor of the waterfall gardens
More Nuit Blanche stuff from Leah Sandals
Dan Graham Pavilions:
A Guide
By Josh Thorpe
Toronto Book Launch with Dan Graham at Art Metropole, 788 King St. W., Toronto
Sunday October 4, 2009
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Nuit blanche Saturday Night: As with the past three years running, no matter what you go see, at the other end of town is an artwork that everyone else saw except you and on Sunday they won't shut the fuck up about how brilliant it was because in addition to the most transcendant art experience in the universe, they also got free chocolate, money and hand jobs.
In Zone B, Fastwürms with R.M. Vaughan, Beth Stuart and a cast of hundreds more (In Capes!) reading tarot at the Sheraton
Earl Miller has also curated an exhibition with works by:
Lisa Neighbour (Kops Records, 229 Queen St. West and Get Outside, 437 Queen St. West)
, Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman (Pages, 256 Queen Street West)
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Anne Fauteux (Cartel, 498 Queen St. West), Kerri Reid (Pull, 435 Queen St. West), and Kathryn Walter (Fashion Crimes, 322 1/2 Queen St. West).
(Or stay home with a bag of potato chips.)