Showing posts with label Nuit Blanche. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nuit Blanche. Show all posts

Wednesday, 9 October 2019

Lichty + Dewancker + Heckmann

From Toronto's Nuit Blanche this past Saturday ...

Gareth Lichty's Hoarding at The Bentway:




Christine Dewancker's Daylighting (Without You I Would Be Lost) near the intersection of Fort York Boulevard and Bathurst Street:



Markus Heckmann's LAB001 (Licht Am Bau 001) at the former Wellington Street Incinerator:


Sunday, 30 September 2018

Sunday, 29 April 2018

White Line Light

Carsten Nicolai and Olaf Bender’s light/sound installation White Line Light at Strachan Avenue Old Police Station from Toronto’s 2007 Nuit Blanche is still one of my best NB experiences.  (Sad that it's been all going downhill now year after year.)  Sorry I couldn't find a good clip of the Toronto installation online.  Here's a later iteration in the Hague:


Video from mediateletipos's Vimeo channel

Sunday, 9 October 2016

(Life and) Death Of The Sun

Depicting the life cycle of the Sun, Director X's installation/projection Death Of The Sun for Nuit Blanche last week is still showing nightly at Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto:






Sunday, 2 October 2016

Browsing

I decided to stay away from the Nuit Blanche crowd this year.  But that doesn't mean I would have to miss everything.  I went early to see my favourite artist Kelly Jazvac's installation Browsing before heading home.

Jazvac at (the now closed) David Mirvish Books, Toronto last night:







Friday, 27 November 2015

The Soniferous Æther Of The Land Beyond The Land Beyond 2

I first saw this short film two years ago at Toronto's Nuit Blanche.  I was very pleased to see Charles Stankievech's The Soniferous Æther Of The Land Beyond The Land Beyond showing here again at Prefix ICA last week.  Perpetual nights of the unforgiving Nunavut winter, where everything seems to have frozen ...



















Sunday, 4 October 2015

Friday, 25 April 2014