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.

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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.

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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.

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Curators announced for Nuit Blanche 2008!

And the curators are…Wayne Baerwaldt, Dave Dyment, Gordon Hatt and Haema Sivanesan.

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