Update: I couldn’t find the actual names of the artists who put this together when I initially posted the video, but thankfully they came to me! Cheers to Gigi and Pipi for the marvelous performance!
Nuit Blanche is an annual “all-night contemporary art thing” that sees hundreds of thousands of people come out to see public art sprout up along the city streets. This is my second Nuit Blanche, having missed the first, and it’s always a really great feeling being out and seeing the streets packed with people who are all so excited to see what the night’s got ahead of them.
I was about to throw in the towel and call it a night at around 5am when I came across a stunning display at St. James Park on King Street East that really made the night for me. Enjoy the haunting performance “La Mamma Morta” staged right next to Toronto’s historic St. James Cathedral and look forward to more video from Nuit Blanche coming soon!
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Aw man! I am so upset that I missed this!! I was frequenting Zone A and B.
Nuit Blanche 2008 in Toronto, was a hit. Nearly 800,000 people took to the streets. Regretfully, the installations were rather disappointing. Amanta Scott invited visitors into a very warm and private space for 15 Minutes of Fame, featuring Karla Homolka’s prison bed!! Into the Blue was an enormous, blue, ‘turd’-shaped balloon. More thoughts at:
http://winstoninwonderlandart.blogspot.com/2008/10/nuit-blanche-2008-in-toronto.html
I actually thought ” Into the blue” was quite interesting. You don’t get the full-effect till you stand underneath it for some time and absorb the view. My only criticism would be for it to have a more dynamic lighting to ” make it shine”.
The Ryerson Pond was again another dramatic one with unwanted audience participation. While last year we had one of the audience pee into the toilet installations, the current one had around a few dozen/hundred people coming in to steal all the rubber duckies. And like last year, those people will probably be in some ER or walk-in-clinic getting treated for some disease (considering bums and drunks actually relieve themselves there at night).
All-in-all, I wish I had a bigger entourage. Most of mine had to work the next day so I had my adventure cut off at 1am.
I missed “Into the Blue” but heard a lot about it! The photos looks pretty impressive. It’s disappointing to hear of theft/vandalism of exhibits again this year - really unfortunate.
You should have kept going after 1 though! The video shot above was while I had gone solo. There’s some art that’s really impressive when you experience it on your own!
well here is a public thank you to deartoronto’s Adam for this wonderful document of our 2boys.tv performance at Nuit Blanche 2008!!!! thank you, many people have told us that they have gone to your site to watch it again! what a lovely elegant document of that wild evening…
come and see our performance ZONA this January at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre… and please introduce yourself afterwards, we’d love to meet you in person (love your site)
bises
gigi and pipi
Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for putting the whole thing together, it was a pleasure. I’ll for sure stop by in January
Take care,
Adam.
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