My Night
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Forever Bicycles, Nathan Phillips Square100 Queen Street West (At Bay Street)Remove from my night
InstallationComprised of 3,144 bicycles Forever Bicycles forms a complex labyrinth-like monument to the rapidly changing social environment in China and around the globe.
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry film screening at 7pm /9pm /11pm /1am /3am /5am
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Crash Cars, Nathan Phillips Square100 Queen Street WestRemove from my night
Performance ArtTwo driverless cars loop at a constant speed. The cars travel in a figure-eight loop tragectory, threatening to collide. Through a playful action and a cynical tone, the artist loops symbols of wealth and power.
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The Little People, Toronto City Hall100 Queen Street West (At Bay Street)Remove from my night
InstallationWorkparty is staging a small toy protest inside City Hall inspired by Russian activists who, in 2012, were banned from mounting a similar demonstration in response to alleged election corruption.
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1-855-IS IT ART (1-855-474-8278), Toronto City Hall100 Queen Street WestRemove from my night
Performance ArtIs this art? How much of an art is it? VSVSVS is here to help you question these questions. Call 1-855-474-8278 toll free to speak with a highly trained advisor. Visit City Hall to watch a live stream of the call centre.
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Toaster Work Wagon, Osgoode Rotunda Laneway361 University Avenue (Enter from south of 361 University Avenue or Nathan Phillips Square)Remove from my night
SculptureVarious-sized bicycles have been modified and made into double-headed pairs. Mounted back-to-back, the audience can test-ride the bikes by negotiating with each other who will take the lead.
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Sherri Newman, Tara Gaskin, Kristiana Schuhmann, Zack Eisenstein, Selen Levi, Megan Carroll, Sam Bruegger & William Vachon
Clothesline Canopy, Trinity SquareBay St. & Trinity Square (Located in front (west) of the Church of the Holy Trinity and accessible from Bay Street or Eaton Centre.)
InstallationA series of clotheslines are strung with 5,000 pairs of socks, creating a canopy overhead. The mass of socks reflect the number of people without adequate housing in Toronto.
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Smoke House, Richmond-Adelaide Centre111 Richmond Street WestRemove from my night
Performance ArtThe Everything Company will construct a large-scale cedar smoking hut powered by three bicycles. The artists will invite participants to pedal throughout the night to keep the salmon smoking, ultimately serving the smoked fish.
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Music Box, University Avenue & Armoury StreetRemove from my night
Kinetic Sound SculptureMusic Box is an absurd mechanical contraption that creates frenetic musical noise in joyful response to the carnival-like atmosphere of Nuit Blanche. Despite the rationality of gears and pulleys, it rejects logic in favour of an outburst of feeling.
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The Big Crunch, 1 Trinity Square (Access from Bay Street, south of Dundas Street West)Remove from my night
InstallationFranck Scurti's installation consists of bicycle wheels fitted with clockwork mechanisms. Each wheel mechanism also moves the hands of the clock in a reverse rotation.
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Paper Orbs, University Avenue & Armoury StreetRemove from my night
Performative InstallationJoin a ritual of slowly dismantling a massive origami float – dispersing into thousands of paper helmets worn by visitors. Paper Orbs activates a parade which culminates in the eventual creation of an alternate paper float.
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Tortoise, Campbell House Lawn160 Queen Street West (West of University Avenue)Remove from my night
SculptureTortoise is a series of assemblage sculptures using standard picnic tables — a representation of North American leisure culture — as building blocks to transform them into elaborate fort-like structures that resist their essential banality.
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Night Shift , Bay Adelaide Centre333 Bay Street (Accessible from Temperance Street)Remove from my night
Performance ArtNight Shift is a durational performance inspired by Louis XIV’s Le Ballet de la Nuit, where he played the Sun King. Dancers will endure from dusk until dawn, dancing and making gold confetti in anticipation of the Sun King’s appearance at sunrise.
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The Anthropocene, Bay Adelaide Centre26 Temperance Street (Adjacent to the underground parking lot entrance)Remove from my night
Mixed Media InstallationCaledonia Dance Curry (Swoon) is a street artist based in New York City. She is known for her wheat pasted art that appears across the world. They are often pasted in areas that interact with their physical space and the community where they exist.
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Ferris Wheel, University Avenue & Dundas Street WestRemove from my night
Sculpture“Ferris Wheel” returns to the simplest roots of the spectacle. The homespun midway attraction explores how a steel structure created in the backyard and decorated with multi-coloured wire and LED lights can convey a sense of magical celebration.
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PARALLAX, University Avenue & Edward StreetRemove from my night
Light InstallationComposed of horizontally stacked tubes of different sizes, PARALLAX uses light to articulate movement. The tubes are tightly packed apertures, a dot screen controlling the amount of light the viewer can see based on their location.
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Garden Tower in Toronto, Metropolitan United Church56 Queen Street East (At Church Street)Remove from my night
InstallationChairs contain memories, as if each person who sat on them left a piece of himself. This work evokes the Babel Tower myth: a humanity speaking with one voice and engaged in building a better future.
Tadashi Kawamata is represented by kamel mennour, Paris.
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Take a Load Off, Ditty LaneQueen Street East & Berti Street (Enter Ditty Lane from Berti Street, south of Queen Street East)Remove from my night
Interactive InstallationTake a Load Off creeps through an alley: a centipede assemblage of found furniture. Curl up in the glow of old lamps, sink into hybrid couches, and discover the histories embedded in the objects of this surreal living room.
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Fight or fight, Roy Thomson Hall pond219 King Street WestRemove from my night
Kinetic SculptureCan machines fight for what they want? In an automated tug of war played out in the arena of the Roy Thomson Hall artificial pond, animated fishing rods battle over their quarry. Theses mechanical performers are imbued with a desire to compete.
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(X)Static Clown Factory, University Avenue & Gerrard Street WestRemove from my night
Multi-media and street performance(X)Static Clown Factory is a Seuss-inspired enactment of the economy of desire. These are working clowns, the float is their workshop, the parade route their assembly line, and we will all experience the night shift.
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Shrine, 21 Jordan StreetRemove from my night
SculptureShrine is the destination of an unexpected nocturnal pilgrimage. The most humble of objects, the common garbage bin, rises up in monumental stacks to form a sacred space; that of a Gothic Cathedral.
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Burrman, Roaming project221 King Street West (Follow Burrman's location on Twitter: @burrman13)Remove from my night
Performance ArtFusing his landscape-based art practice with a strange ancient Scottish ritual, Simon Frank will cover himself in burrs, the ingenious hooked seed of the Burdock plant, and walk throughout the Financial District. Follow @burrman13 on Twitter.
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Art Gallery of Ontario
Your Temper, My Weather, Art Gallery of Ontario317 Dundas Street West, 416
Performance ArtOne hundred regional beekeepers dressed in their bee-suits will participate in a massive collective meditation.
The choreographed work will feature periods of guided silent meditation, synchronized stretching, and musical accompaniment.
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Howl, Bay Street & Richmond Street West (Enter alley from Richmond Street or Temperance Street, west of Bay Street)Remove from my night
Kinetic SculptureIn Howl, a loading dock is transformed into the site of a hunt. A coyote-on-rabbit chase loops along the rails of a steel roller coaster surrounded by mechanical birds and decoy deer, offering an absurdist take on how we represent the natural world.
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Tanks, David Pecaut Square221 King Street WestRemove from my night
SculptureLane’s sculptures involve the cutting of lace patterns into steel oil tanks and I-beams. Alternately strong and delicate, masculine and feminine, they confuse function and ornament,turningrecycled steel into emblems of a lost industrial age.
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Coral Short
Plush, Metro Hall55 John Street (Roaming)
Performance ArtA magical roving creature covered head to toe with soft colorful stuffed animals! Do you want to replace your sadness with joy? Come find this incredible being and she will give you a big cozy hug!
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Baycrest Health Sciences & the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine
My Virtual Dream, Outside the Leslie L. Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Building144 College Street (Look out for the dome to the east side of the Leslie H. Dan Pharmacy Building.)
Interactive InstallationCreate your dream with The Virtual Brain. Wear wireless headsets to transmit your brain waves to live musicians, and steer the animations inside a dome.
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Monster Child, Queens Park Crescent East & College StreetRemove from my night
Interactive InstallationA child meets a giant spider that is considering vengeance for all the insects that we have killed. This is an interactive work where you move the spider, spin a wheel of fortune, ask the child/oracle a question and hear her answer. Action and insight.
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Laurence Vallières
There is an elephant in the truck, Queen's Park Crescent East & Grosvenor Street (Located near the food trucks in the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche hospitality area.), 514
SculptureObserve a sculpture in cardboard of an elephant’s head emerging from the back end of a white cube truck. The work uses animal imagery to symbolize political issues especially how we often avoid facing even the most obvious issues around us.
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Human Sweat Generator , Queens Park Crescent East & Wellesley Street WestRemove from my night
Interactive InstallationThese hybrid machines, part exercise bike, part bicycle, connected to electrical generators, will power various electronic/electrical systems. The participants complete the work by pedaling.
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A Quack Cure, Queens Park Crescent East & Wellesley Street WestRemove from my night
Performance ArtInspired by traditional mummers parades, A Quack Cure will bring to life a merry troupe of otherwise-extinct creatures for a night of revelry aboard a float designed especially for these strange animals.
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HYBRID GLOBE, Queens Park Crescent East & St. Joseph StreetRemove from my night
Interactive InstallationThe sphere with its pure & powerful geometry is at once familiar & strange. It is deployed as an interactive armature for carrying the temporal imaging that will create a dynamic spatial & social experience within the environment of the parade.
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Canadian Music Centre
A Touch of Light, Canadian Music Centre20 St. Joseph Street
Light InstallationExploring the intersection of sound and sight, A Touch of Light is a visualization of the live performances taking place at the CMC. The piece repurposes over 100 light bulbs into a real-time processing of alternative musical notation and energy.
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Moss and Lam
The Somnambulist, Joe Fresh589 Queen Street West
InstallationWe are inspired by the beauty of words that sparkle like stars in the night and phrases that embed themselves into memory in our piece "The Somnambulist".
Texts from Hemingway and Proust are displayed in glittering crystals evocative of advertising.
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Urban Visuals
lightbridge, Puente de LuzFront Street West & Portland Street (Access bridge from the north at Portland Street, from the south at Iceboat Terrace and Dan Leckie Way)
Light and Sound Installationlightbridge is inspired by the notion that light is like a bridge connecting the earth and the stars.
Through an enclosure of LED lights and a hypnotic musical score, lightbridge transforms a 250 ft pedestrian bridge into a kind of hyperspace tunnel.
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Gardiner Museum
Everyday Marvels, Gardiner Museum111 Queen's Park, 416
Performance ArtEveryday Marvels is an episodic performance installation conceived, created and directed by Shannon Litzenberger. The 16 miniature vignettes have been created by 8 local choreographers based on Lorna Crozier’s recently published volume of poetry.
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Kagame Murray
THE ILLUSION OF LINEAR TIME, The Four Seasons Hotel60 Yorkville Avenue (THE ILLUSION OF LINEAR TIME will be located outside at the front door entrance to The Four Seasons Hotel.)
SculptureThis sculpture is a futuristic presentation involving 400 lbs of poured transparent plastic saturated with 4,000 feet of fibre optic tails. This astonishing work of art has metamorphic lighting qualities.
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Abraham Galway and Lauren Poon
The Other Side of the Gardiner, Bathurst & Fort York Blvd (Located beneath the Gardiner Expressway, south of Fort York.)
InstallationThe Other Side of the Gardiner re-envisions the space beneath a familiar piece of urban infrastructure with atmospheric tools of light, snow and sound. It creates a surreal and inviting landscape to suggest new type of public realm.