Here are VoCA’s recommended must-sees of the night, listed as a walkable or bikable route that takes you from Zone A in Yorkville, through Zone B to Zone C along Queen Street West. You can always end up at the Drake or the Gladstone! Have a wonderful Nuit Blanche! Image: z.about.com IF YOU’RE STARTING AT ZONE A (YORKVILLE): 1. DSM5
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VoCA recommends…Top independent projects Part Two 1-BLOOR NIGHTLIGHT AT BLOOR & LANSDOWNE Throughout the Bloor Lansdowne neighbourhood Artist Dyan Marie has transformed into impresario for this event which involves over 50 artists united in their desire to motivate social change within the troubled community of Bloor and Lansdowne. How will they do this? Through light! Expect many creative uses of
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VoCA recommends…Top independent projects Part One 1-THEATRE OF EPHEMERAL MUSIC AT THE MUSIC GALLERYInside St George-the-Martyr Anglican Church, just north of the intersection of John and Stephanie StreetsIn Grange Park next to OCAD Hylozoists at the Music Gallery, 2006. Image: basic_sounds.blogspot.com The title for the Music Gallery’s Nuit Blanche project references LaMonte Young’s Theatre of Eternal Music. Throughout Nuit Blanche,
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Arabella Campbell, Physical Facts Series #4, 2005 – 2006. Image: catrionajeffries.com VoCA congratulates Vancouver artist Arabella Campbell, winner of this year’s $25,000 RBC Painting Competition. Campbell is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery. Calgary artist Chris Millar and Toronto’s Melanie Authier were the two honorable mentions, who each received $15,000. Chris Millar, FACEBITOR – The Untimely Transmorgrification of the Problem, 2006.
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VoCA recommends…Zone C Zone C is the Queen West Zone, extending along Queen from Trinity-Bellwoods Park, west to Dufferin and from Dundas down to King Street. Singh is an artist and curator at the very downtown Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, where she has mounted exhibitions using music, fashion and performance in unique and welcoming ways. 1. CARSTEN NICOLAI &
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VoCA recommends…Zone B Zone B extends more or less from College and Spadina to King and University, covering the Baldwin Street area, OCAD down to Queen and below to King. It’s curated by Michelle Jacques, assistant cuator at the Art Gallery of Ontario. 1. ADAD HANNAH: TRACES, 2007What to expect: If you think you know what you’re looking at, prepare
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VoCA recommends…Zone A The curated projects in Zone A (Yorkville and surrounding area) should be fantastic this year. Curated by Rhonda Corvese, who won the Untitled Art Award for Emerging Curator last year, the zone includes pieces off Yonge Street, in Yorkville and around King’s College and the University of Toronto. 1. JENNIFER MARMAN/DANIEL BORINS: EVENT HORIZON, 2007 What to
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Sunday:Best of Zone A with map Monday:Best of Zone B with map Tuesday:Best of Zone C with map Wednesday:Best of the off-site projects part 1 Thursday:Best of the off-site projects part 2 Friday:VoCA recommended routes through NB Saturday:Last minute details Or check out the official site HERE
From tomorrow through next Saturday, VoCA will feature the top installations to see on Toronto’s Nuit Blanche. VoCA’s poster, designed by Toronto artist Derek Sullivan. Picks will include work by Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman, Adad Hannah, Swintak, Craig Walsh, NewMindSpace and many others…
Marc Quinn, Sphinx (Fortuna), 2006. Image: saatchi-gallery.co.uk DHC/ART, Canada’s newest art foundation – perhaps to rival Toronto’s Ydessa Hendeles – will open on October 5th in Montreal with an exhibition by British sculptor Marc Quinn. DHC/ART Foundation is a privately endowed contemporary art organization. Located in a newly renovated building in Old Montreal, the foundation also supports off-site programming, like
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Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design...