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October 1st, 2008 — Artists, Events/Talks, Exhibitions, Nuit Blanche Toronto 2008, Painting, Toronto
LIVE / Jonathan Meese
Saturday, 4 October / 6 PM / $4 Members, $6 Non-Members
The Power Plant
The German artist Jonathan Meese. Image: cfa-berlin.com
Controversial German artist Jonathan Meese, whose wild, unhinged installations and performances are sometimes described as “social exorcisms” comes to Toronto for his first Canadian exhibition and performance this weekend.
DO NOT MISS THIS!!
September 29th, 2008 — Nuit Blanche Toronto 2008, Toronto
Nuit Blanche Toronto takes place this Saturday, October 4th from dusk ’til dawn. Since last year’s audience doubled to 800,000 VoCA has selected what we think will be the evening’s highlights.
Click HERE for our critics picks of Zone A and HERE for Zone B.
Zone C is down in Toronto’s Liberty Village this year, and is made up of two exhibitions by two curators, Haema Sivanesan, executive director of SAVAC, the South Asian Visual Arts Centre in Toronto and Dave Dyment, artist and former co-director of Mercer Union Contemporary Art Centre, Toronto
Our picks for Dave Dyment’s exhibition, titled Beginning to See the Light, are:
1. Overflow, 2008 by Michel de Broin
Michel de Broin, Solitude, 2001. Image: micheldebroin.org
We’re pretty sure the 2007 Sobey Award winner won’t disappoint. This is the man who imagined suspendina a mobile home from a crane and risked arrest for driving a pedal-powered Buick Regal downtown.
This piece will present a waterfall flowing from a third story window.
July 28th, 2008 — Artists, Nuit Blanche Toronto 2008, Toronto
Zone B at this year’s Nuit Blanche Toronto extends from Queen Street down to the Lakeshore, from Simcoe Street in the West end and Church Street in the East.
Wayne Baerwaldt, director and curator at the Illingsworth Kerr Gallery at the Alberta College of Art and Design, will curate the zone and he has proposed a series of performative events and installations that will “skewer audience expectations by blurring the line between artist/performer and audience member.”
Here are VoCA’s top three must-sees for this zone:
1. Horroridor, 2008 by Kelly Mark
“In a nightmare, you can’t change the channel.”
Kelly Mark, REM (video installation), 2007. Image: ireallyshould.com
Prepare to be disturbed. A long corridor installed under Union Station filled with videos of hundreds of people screaming. A nice allegory to how you probably feel every day if you’re a commuter.
July 11th, 2008 — Artists, Nuit Blanche Toronto 2008, Toronto
We now know what this year’s 4 curators have planned for this year’s Nuit Blanche Toronto, which will take place on the night of OCTOBER 4, 2008.
Click HERE for the full list
Here are the first of VoCA picks for the night. Stay tuned for more over the coming weeks.
ZONE A: Curated by Gordon Hatt.
1. Without Persons, 2008 by Luis Jacob
Luis Jacob, The Inchoate Ensemble, 2007, colour photograph. Image: birchlibralato.com
The super-hot Toronto artist gets the best venue –the old Maple Leaf Gardens-that he’ll use as a haunting sound installation.
March 6th, 2008 — Events/Talks, News: Canada, Nuit Blanche Toronto 2008, Toronto
Curators announced for Nuit Blanche 2008!
And the curators are…Wayne Baerwaldt, Dave Dyment, Gordon Hatt and Haema Sivanesan.
Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design...Read full bio