Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Scotiabank Nuit Blanche

Arrivals/Departures

Marie-Claude Langevin — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:35:22 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Fernandes, Michael

Artwork creator(s):

Fernandes, Michael

Text author(s):

Public; Fernandes, Michael

Text author(s):

Public

Fernandes, Michael

Installation year:

2010

Artwork description

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Description:

Grand tableau noir où les gens sont invités à inscrire avec une craie leur réflexion personnelle à 11 questions : What are you up to? Who are you? What do you miss? What do you want? What did you do? What will you be? What are your plans? What are you missing? What has happened? Where have you been? Where are you heading?

Text of the artwork:

What are you up to? Who are you? What do you miss? What do you want? What did you do? What will you be? What are your plans? What are you missing? What has happened? Where have you been? Where are you heading?

Réponse du public

Text theme:

La vie, réflexion personnelle, être dans l’instant présent

Artwork theme:

La vie, expérience personnelle

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Michael Fernandes

Document(s):

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche: Should I Stay Or Should I Go

Arrivals/Departures, 2010

Pendle Witches

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:56:17 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Yanover, Shirley

Artwork creator(s):

Yanover, Shirley

Text author(s):

Yanover, Shirley

Text author(s):

Yanover, Shirley

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

Façade et côté de l’établissement

Artwork description

Source: Photo transmise par Shirley Yanover

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Remarques sur l'image:

Image 1 : détail («moondance. Elizabeth Device»). Image 1/12. Image 2 : vue de l’installation.

Text of the artwork:

[image 1/12]

moonshine

Jennet Preston

[image 2/12]

moondance

Elizabeth Device

[image 3/12]

moonbeam

James Device

[image 4/12]

moonstruck

Elizabeth Southerns

[image 5/12]

moonlight

Anne Whittle

[image 6/12]

moonlit

Anne Redfern

[image 7/12]

moonlighting

Katherine Hewitt

[image 8/12]

moonwalk

Alice Nutter

[image 9/12]

mooning

Elizabeth Robey

[image 10/12]

moonglow

Mizon Device

[image 11/12]

blue moon

Jane Bulcock

[image 12/12]

honeymoon

John Bulcock

Text theme:

Noms de femmes victimes du procès de Pendle ; vocabulaire lunaire

Artwork theme:

Les process des sorcières de Pendle (Lancaster, Angleterre, 1612), sexualité des femmes, pouvoir, la lune, la peur

History

History:

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON.

Nuit du 29 septembre 2007.

Event date(s):

2007

Dimensions

Height:

7.62m

Width:

6.1m

Other information

Artist's biography:

Yanover, Shirley

Propriétaire(s):

Collection de l’artiste

Document(s):

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. Toronto Canada 2007. Shirley Yanover 2007. Pendle Witches

What Will You Do?

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:57:55 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Czegledy, Nina; Judelman, Greg; Hession, Deborah; Barber, Daniel

Artwork creator(s):

Czegledy, Nina

Judelman, Greg

Hession, Deborah

Barber, Daniel

Text author(s):

Public

Text author(s):

Public

Collaborator(s):

Hession, Deb

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

Site B10 sur la carte de l’événement

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2007). Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2007/artists/b10.html)

Description:

Une installation interactive projette sur une affiche la question, Que ferez-vous (pour arrêter les changements climatiques)? Les artistes invitent le public à répondre avec un message SMS. Les réponses s'affichent en quelques secondes dans le cadre d'une visualisation projetée en temps réel.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

[Texte en surface]

WHAT WILL YOU DO? TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE Finish The Sentence With A Text Message To 416-555-1234 [Texte de fond (liste partielle?)] Eat less meat Read books about it Use the compost Turn the lights off Educate my kids Take the bus Fly less Buy organic food Lose mu air conditioner Get a smaller car Change my job Start a sustainable business Heat my home less in winter Use less water

[Texte sur l’écran à Simcoe et Queen (liste partielle)]

WHAT WILL YOU DO? TO COOL OUR EARTH? RESPOND NOW BY TEXT MESSAGE TO 647-449-9932 --- I will Reduce, Re-use and Recycle. I will dominate the arctic oil fields I will get a household energy audit. I will try to wash my dishes by hand. I will buy a really expensive hybrid car. I will consume less. I will water my lawn less frequently. I will give used clothes to charity instead of throwing them out. I will make sweet love in the environmental faculty. I will make love to mother earth and make new baby ones I will learn to spell properly to that people will respect my environmental ideas. I will not use condoms for they pollute the planet. I will tell omar to turn out his lights. I will use both sides of my toilet paper! I will car pool to work. I will only shower once per week. I will not buy disposable plates and utensils. I will pick up one extra piece of litter a day. I will not move to the suburbs like my stupid friends. I will paint myself green and run naked in the streets. I will replace my old refrigerator. I will eat tofu instead of burgers. I will reuse my plastic fork until I forcibly break it on a steak. I will keep my car tuned up. I will check my car tire pressure regularly. I will bathe every 2 days! I will buy recycled paper products. I will shower in cold water despite shrinkage. I will not eat at hot dog vendors who use styrofoam. I won’t use toilet paper when I go for number 2. I will live like a caveman. I will try to reduce my electricity use. I will plant my own vegetable garden. I will move in with Al Gore. I will eat less cats. I will volunteer to green NGO’s. I will make sure I will turn off my lights when I am not home. I will try to print less at work. I will turn off my lights when I am not using them. I will hug the person next to me when I see this message. I Won’t Drive A Car. Ever. I will overthrow capitalism. I will shut this screen down to save energy. I will buy fresh instead of frozen foods. I will mostly all-natural, biodegradable cleaning products. I will never wash again… I will not over-dry clothes. I will ride my bike more. I will exhale less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. I will show the same respect to the world it has shown me. I will demand to know what’s in my food and where it comes from. I will not participate in balloon abundant activities. I will practice dimming lights in my home. I will buy products with less packaging. We will eat vegetarian. I will take a shower once a month.

Text theme:

Adoption d’un mode de vie (plus) écologique

Artwork theme:

Le climat

History

History:

Du coucher du soleil à 7:03 pm le samedi, 29 septembre, au lever du soleil à 7:14 h le dimanche, le 30 septembre 2007, Toronto a été très animée avec des performances et des installations d'art contemporain ans trois zones à travers la ville .

Événement: Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2007

Event date(s):

2007

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Nina Czegledy. Bio

Author's biography:

Greg Judelman. Bio

Source:

1. Nina Czegledy czegledy@interlog.com 2. Greg Judelman judelman@gmail.com 3. Deborah Hession Deborah@actionpactdesigns.com 4. Daniel Barber dabarber@uga.edu

Document(s):

Green Art

Exhibition: WHAT WILL YOU DO?, 2007

Imagine Peace

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:29:25 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Ono, Yoko

Artwork creator(s):

Ono, Yoko

Text author(s):

Ono, Yoko

Text author(s):

Ono, Yoko

Installation year:

2008

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2008). Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2008/artists/c8.html)

Description:

Pour Arbre à souhaits, les participants sont invités à écrire un souhait sur un morceau de papier et de l'attacher à la branche d'un arbre.

Le Imagine Peace se retrouve dans un panneau-réclame. Cette oeuvre poursuit la stratégie publicitaire de la "guerre est finie!".

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

IMAGINE PEACE
yoko ono 2008

Artwork theme:

Amour et la paix mondiale

History

History:

Événement: Yoko Ono: Imagine Peace, Noga Samek Art Gallery [3^e niveau, Langone Center, Bucknell University, 701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PA 17837, États-Unis.] Date:25 août au 8 octobre 2008.

Événement: Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Date: Nuit du 4 octobre 2008

Historique: Le projet prend la forme d’un panneau publicitaire.

Événement: Vancouver Sculpture Biennale/Open Spaces : Vancouver International Sculpture Project, Vancouver, Colombie-Britannique.

Event date(s):

2008

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

Contribution publique : les noms des auteurs des «vœux», membres du public, n’ont pas été notés.

Artist's biography:

Ono, Yoko

Source:

1.Yoko Ono (représentée par la galerie Lelong à New York et la galerie Shoshana Wayne à Santa Monica) a. Galerie Lelong 528 West 26th Street, New York, New York, 10001, États-Unis Tél: 212.315.0470 fax: 212.262.0624 Vice-President/Partner: Mary Sabbatino Directeur: Marc Hughes Courriel: art@galerielelong.com b. Shoshana Wayne Gallery Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue B1, Santa Monica, CA 90404, Tel. 310.453.7535, fax. 310.453.1595, mail@shoshanawayne.com 2. Giannina Warren Media Relations, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 416-395-7318 gwarren@toronto.ca informations générales : scotiabanknuitblanche@toronto.ca

Document(s):

Beginning to See the Light. Yoko Ono, Imagine Peace

A long night's journey into art. (The Globe Review) (NUIT BLANCHE) (Chronology)

ICONOCLASH : NIGHT OF AWE DANCE PARTY

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:45:37 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Shiff, Melissa

Artwork creator(s):

Shiff, Melissa

Text author(s):

Shiff, Melissa

Text author(s):

Shiff, Melissa

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

B7 sur la carte de visite de l’événement (zone B, exposition numéro 7). Niveau Grange Road. Située à l’extrémité nord du parc.

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2007) Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2007. ( http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2007/artists/b7.html)

Description:

Projection multimédia d'image, de musique. Les gens sont projetés sur l'écran avec des animations.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

The monotheistic god of the second commandment plumps for abstraction so that He can demand a new discipline to be enforced on His subjects alone- The paradoxical result Is not NO image It is instead the image of abstraction that is to be produced. Caroline Jones Making Abs […] -- MY CULTURE IS YOUR FETIS[H] -- […] residing […] of a cow […] -- «come worship ye the Golden god of pleasure! [for he is] of Israel -- The term "idol" in the western context has always been used to refer to deities in pagan religions. In "idolatry" the agency of the person is thought to be displaced, irrationally, into the agency of the thing. But in polytheistic traditions, the deity is not a thing : the image, icon, or representation Is animated by the […] -- For Judaism, The desire to index Divinity With the Golden Calf Can be viewed as an ethical […]

Text theme:

Judaïsme, tensions religieuses, idolâtrie

Artwork theme:

Judaïsme, tensions religieuses, idolâtrie

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Shiff, Melissa

Source:

1. Melissa Shiff, artiste 72 Major Street Toronto (Ontario) M5S 2L1 Tél : 647-273-6140 Courriel : melissa@melissashiff.com 2. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Giannina Warren Media relations 416-395-7318 gwarren@toronto.ca informations générales : scotiabanknuitblanche@toronto.ca

Document(s):

Archive. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2007 Zone B. Curated Exhibition. ICONOCLASH: NIGHT of AWE DANCE PARTY, 2007

Four Sisters

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:21:02 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Armstrong, John; Collins, Paul

Artwork creator(s):

Armstrong, John

Collins, Paul

Text author(s):

Armstrong, John; Collins, Paul

Text author(s):

Armstrong, John

Collins, Paul

Installation year:

2008

Remarks on location:

Terrain de stationnement à l’intersection des rues Bay et Elm. Site A5 sur la carte de l’événement.

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2008). Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2008/artists/a5.html)

Description:

L'oeuvre est un film de trente minutes montrant un trajet de voiture sur l'autoroute Gardiner Expressway. Sous les images, une bande de texte défile, relatant 11 courts récits anecdotiques, soit en anglais soit en français.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Remarques sur l'image:

Image 1 : détail; still. Texte en français. Image 2 : détail; still. Texte en anglais. Image 3 : vue de l’installation. Projection en cours. Image 4 : vue de l’installation. Projection en cours.

Text of the artwork:

[Narration 1/11] —

John, who has a penchant for institutional, self-service food, was excited about trying out the new cafeteria at Ikea. We were driving west along the Gardiner Expressway, the lake was on our left, occasionally visible between the Victorian fairground pavilions. Further along, on the right, we passed a series of topiary gardens where the shrubbery depicts various corporate logos and brand names: HP, Westinghouse, Sears, Deloitte & Touche, FedEx, Manulife Financial, Parmalat, Rogers, CGI, Weber, Waterhouse, CN, United Way, Ford, and the City of Toronto. As we drew parallel to the four towering chimneys of the Lakeview Generating Station, John suggested that we should call our new collaborative project “Lakeshore.” I readily agreed, but had great difficulty believing that we were actually going to Ikea to eat.

[une de onze narrations] —

There was a time when a person could make a respectable living by creating handlettered signage with nothing more sophisticated than a decent lettering brush and a pot of paint. A good signpainter was trained in proportion, scale and detail, understood the origins of typefaces, and had a penchant for experimentation. The trade also attracted other, less assiduous folk, who used it simply as a way to earn some quick cash and then crawl away inside a bottle. You could earn a surprising fee for just several hours’ work. Those of us who thought of ourselves as professionals would speculate on the identity of our fly-by-night competitors whose work was always a shaky, garish mess. Their lettering typically advertised a greasy-spoon restaurant or a discount yard-goods retailer — the proprietors of which presumably didn’t know or care that signpainters, who could have done a real job of it, existed. One such mystery artist we called the Phantom. His work was everywhere. The advent of computer-driven, polyvinyl letter-cutting machines in the ‘80s reduced the trade to a shambles. You no longer came across the Phantom’s work, or anybody else’s who had even a passing acquaintance with the systematic pleasure of twisting a letter out of a brush. What you saw instead was a digital smear of plastic, reams of bad layout and grating colour schemes seemingly shot out of a cannon by dolts who apparently knew how to stack enough dollars in a pile to buy the computer rig but didn’t understand the nature of the graphic travesty they unfurled in the public’s eye. Twenty-five years later, the signmaking business has tamed its machinery and discovered the secrets of composition and balance. Since most everything is plastic, vinyl lettering seamlessly blends in. Handlettering even rears its noble head occasionally when good taste prevails and budgets are extended. Just yesterday I caught myself gladdened to see the front window of a down-market eatery only recently lettered by someone with no ability.

[une de onze narrations] —

After finishing art college, I worked with Cliff for about a year in his West Toronto sign shop. The business was located on the ground level of a renovated warehouse, and Cliff’s unit had a large storefront window that faced out onto a quiet street of other light-industrial concerns. The candymaker Rowntree was just down the road from us. The sweet smell of chocolate frequently hung in the air. Business was intermittent. It was the early ‘80s and there was a recession. The computer-generated vinyl lettering that would soon replace the handpainted signage that Cliff specialized in was still a few years off, and on occasion we did get large jobs: showcards announcing seminars at dental conferences, outdoor signs advertising new residential developments, showpiece wooden signs for upscale restaurants. Often this work was last minute, and we would paint late into the night. Invariably, when this occurred we would get a call from a sexual prankster. He would dryly relate to us in great detail how terrific it was to masturbate while listening to the sound of our voices. Whenever I picked up the phone to find him on the other end, I would immediately slam down the receiver. This was an involuntary reaction, and may well have been exactly what the caller was looking for. Cliff, on the other hand, would switch the caller onto speakerphone, and engage him for some time by sarcastically playing along.

History

History:

1. Historique : crée en 2007. Présentée dans une galerie. Événement : Logo Cities: An International Symposium on Signage, Branding, and Lettering in Public Space, Concordia University, Montréal, QC Dates : 4-5 mai 2007

2. Historique : En collaboration avec le Consulat Général de France à Toronto. Première exposition de l’œuvre dans un espace public. Événement : Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON Date : nuit du 4 octobre 2008

3. Événement : Four Sisters, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON Date : 10 octobre 2008

4. Événement : Soirées performance, École Supérieure d’Art de Toulon Provence Méditerranée, Toulon, France Date : 10 décembre 2008

Event date(s):

2008

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Logo Cities: An International Symposium on Signage, Branding, and Lettering in Public Space

Source:

John Armstrong jc.armstrong@utoronto.ca Paul Collins pcollins@club.fr

Document(s):

Painting in public. An illustrated overview of collective and individual work

Nuit blanche: Toronto en veille

Bulletin culturel

Archive. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2008

Presence and Resistance

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:27:33 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Heap of Birds, Edgar

Artwork creator(s):

Heap of Birds, Edgar

Text author(s):

Heap of Birds, Edgar

Text author(s):

Heap of Birds, Edgar

Installation year:

2006

Remarks on location:

Trois emplacements le long de la rue Queen Ouest: 1) niveau de la rue Fennings; 2) niveau entre la rue Lisgar et Dovercourt (Queen’s Car Wash, éventuellement devenu aujourd’hui Royal Car Wash, 1106 rue Queen Ouest, Toronto, ON M6J 1H9); 3) niveau entre Gladstone et Beaconfield : entre l’avenue Northcote et l’avenue Beaconfield, d’après la carte de l’événement (éventuellement au Mr Sub, aujourd’hui entre Gladstone et Northcote, 1181 rue Queen Ouest, Toronto, ON M6J 1J4); Officiellement, ces trois emplacements se situent aux intersections de la rue Queen Ouest et la rue Dovercourt; de la rue Queen Ouest et l’avenue Gladstone.

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2006). Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2006/artists/c2.html)

Description:

Installation d'art public / panneaux d'affichage et l'affichage public des textes

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

[Panneau publicitaire recto-verso, niveau de la rue Fennings]

IMPERIAL CANADA RESISTANCE DEFIANCE OKA INSURGENT MESSAGES FOR CANADA HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS 2006 scotiabank nuit blanche

[Panneau publicitaire recto-verso, niveau de la rue Fennings]

IMPERIAL CANADA WHERE IS YOUR STATUS CARD? INSURGENT MESSAGES FOR CANADA HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS 2006 scotiabank nuit blanche

[Panneau publicitaire recto-verso, à proximité de Queen’s Car Wash]

IMPERIAL CANADA STOP BLACK ROBES ABUSE INSURGENT MESSAGES FOR CANADA HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS 2006 scotiabank nuit blanche

[Panneau publicitaire recto-verso, à proximité de Queen’s Car Wash]

IMPERIAL CANADA SHARE STOLEN LANDS INSURGENT MESSAGES FOR CANADA HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS 2006 scotiabank nuit blanche

[Panneau publicitaire recto-verso, au dessus du commerce Mr. Sub]

IMPERIAL CANADA WHO’S YOUR DADDY? LOUIS RIEL INSURGENT MESSAGES FOR CANADA HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS 2006

[Panneau publicitaire recto-verso, au dessus du commerce Mr. Sub]

IMPERIAL CANADA METIS YOUR REALITY INSURGENT MESSAGES FOR CANADA HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS 2006 scotiabank nuit blanche

Artwork theme:

Injustices commises envers les peuples amérindiens par le gouvernement canadien

History

History:

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche (commissaire de la zone C: Clara Hargittay).

Event date(s):

2006

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds

Source:

1. HOCK E AYE VI Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds eheapofbirds@yahoo.com site web: http://www.heapofbirds.com

Document(s):

Supporting creativity: but only for 12 hours?

Archive. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2006.

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. Toronto Canada 2006. Zone C. Presence and Resistance

One Garden One Night One Wish

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:05:04 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Zealley Andrew; Stathacos, Chrysanne

Artwork creator(s):

Zealley Andrew

Stathacos, Chrysanne

Text author(s):

Stathacos, Chrysanne

Text author(s):

Stathacos, Chrysanne

Installation year:

2006

Remarks on location:

Situé le long du «Philosopher's Walk» (chemin piétonnier), campus St.George, entre l’avenue Hoskin et la rue Bloor Ouest; au sud-ouest du Royal Ontario Museum (ROM, 100 Queens Park, Toronto, ON M5S)

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2008). ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche 2006. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/)

Description:

Installation sonore avec des éléments de papier imprimés attachés à un arbre.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

1000 vœux tirés du projet «Wish Machine Project», par Chrysanne Stathacos, 1997- aujourd’hui (projet toujours en cours en 2009).

Artwork theme:

Vœux, désirs communs (argent, amour, désir charnel, espoir, joie, santé…) expérience partagée

History

History:

1. Le texte de «One Garden One Night One Wish» réutilise un extrait important de texte en provenance du projet «Wish Machine» (1997-) de Chrysanne Stathacos. Ce projet d’art public interactif a été commandé par la Grand Central Station pour l’exposition «Creative Time» en 1997-1998. L’œuvre a été présentée dans plusieurs pays depuis : à la galerie Power Plant à Toronto en 1999; à Frankfurt, Allemagne en 2001

2. Festival Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON, le samedi 30 septembre au matin du 1 octobre 2006.

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Note(s):

« 1000+ Wishes is a book of anonymous wishes that have been collected from around the world via wishmachine.com, fax, mail, written and spoken»; «To date over 20,000 people have participated in The Wish Machine project. The Wish Machine is trademarked. 1000+ Wishes and wishmachine.com. »

- Source: Chrysanne Stathacos. (2008). Artworks. The Wish Machine.

http://chrysannestathacos.com/one-garden-one-night-one-wish/

L’arbre émanait une piste sonore créée par Andrew Zealley. Chrysanne Stathacos a décoré l’arbre de vœux et d’ornementations argentées. On invitait les visiteurs à accrocher les «vœux» aux branches de l’arbre.

Source : Centre d’art contemporain canadien (CCCA) (2008). Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2006. Zone A. Yorkville. One Garden, One Night, One Wish
http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2006/artists/a7.html

Artist's biography:

Zealley, Andrew

Author's biography:

Stathacos, Chrysanne

Source:

1. Fern Bayer, commissaire de l’événement fernbayer@sympatico.ca 2. Peggy Gale, commissaire de l’événement galesnow@sympatico.ca 3. Chrysanne Stathacos, artiste et commissaire de la Zone A Courriel: chrysanne@verizon.net, ca@chrysannestathacos.com 4. Andrew Zealley, artiste info@andrewzealley.com, andrewzealley@sympatico.ca

Document(s):

1000+Wishes, The Wish Machine

Audiowork. One Garden, One Night, One Wish

Artworks. One Garden, One Night, One Wish

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2006. Zone A. Yorkville. One Garden, One Night, One Wish

Archive. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2006. Zone A. Yorkville. Curated Exhibition. One Garden, One Night, One Wish, 2006

(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:57:38 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Curreri, Chris

Artwork creator(s):

Curreri, Chris

Text author(s):

Presley, Elvis

Text author(s):

Presley, Elvis

Collaborator(s):

Collaboration avec les résidents sur la rue Baldwin Street, Toronto

Installation year:

2006

Remarks on location:

Côté sud de la rue Baldwin, niveau entre les rues Beverly (à l’Ouest) et McCaul (à l’Est). Installée dans les fenêtres d’édifices.

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2008). Scotiablank Nuit Blanche. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2006/artists/b2.html)

Description:

Écriture en néon placée dans des vitrines de maison ou de magasin.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

FORGET ME NEVER
IF YOU LOVE ME LET ME KNOW
LET ME BE THERE
LET ME BE YOUR TEDDY BEAR
PLEASE DON’T STOP LOVING ME
THERE'S ALWAYS ME
TREAT ME NICE

Artwork theme:

Amour, désir, romance

History

History:

Festival Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON, du samedi 30 septembre au matin du 1er octobre 2006

Event date(s):

2006

Dimensions

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Note(s):

The charm of Toronto's Baldwin Street life, with its mix of small businesses and private residences, has uniquely personal feel effusing a sense of people's lives rather than being overwhelmed by commerce or consuming. Through an installation of sweet messages, in collaboration with the residents of Baldwin Street, artist Chris Curreri captured a sense of the personal while recognizing the commercial aspects of the area. Viewed only from the street, as one walked along Baldwin, passersby were treated to a neon love poem glowing from above. All Elvis Presley song titles, the glowing text anonymously announced itself from the second floor windows of Baldwin Street residential homes. The signs declared a kind of romantic longing for all its viewers, but remained unreachable, inanimate, and incapable of receiving response.

Source: Scotiablank Nuit Blanche 2006 (2006). Nuit Blanche.
http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2006/artists/b2.html

Artist's biography:

Chris Curreri

Source:

1. Chris Curreri, artiste chriscurreri@gmail.com

Document(s):

Archive. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2006. Zone C. Curated Exhibition. (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear, 2006

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. Toronto Canada 2006. Zone B. (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear

Freeze

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:32:20 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Belmore, Rebecca; Yero, Osvaldo

Artwork creator(s):

Belmore, Rebecca

Yero, Osvaldo

Text author(s):

Belmore, Rebecca; Yero, Osvaldo

Text author(s):

Belmore, Rebecca

Yero, Osvaldo

Installation year:

2006

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2008). Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2006/artists/c5.html)

Description:

Blocs de glace avec inscription

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

STONECHILD

(Poème sur un panneau à proximité de la sculpture)

last seen alive in police custody
     under the influence
     found 5 days later frozen to death in a field
     wearing one shoe
     marks on his body likely caused by handcuffs

     aboriginal teenage boy
     dropped off and walking to where?

     In memory of Neil Stonechild (1973-1990)

Artwork theme:

Mort de Neil Stonechild , violence faite aux amérindiens, injustice, crime

History

History:

Exposition de l’installation sculpturale dans le cadre de la Conférence annuelle 2008 de l’Association canadienne des commissions et conseil des droits de la personne (ACCCDP), présentée par la Commission ontarienne des droits de la personne (Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies, or CASHRA, 2008 annual conference, presented by the Ontario Human Rights Commission) du 15 au 17 juin 2008, dans la cour sur le campus de Niagara College, Niagara-on-the-lake, ON. Exposition dans le cadre de l’événement «Scotiabank Nuit Blanche», Toronto, ON, nuit du samedi 30 septembre 2006.

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Note(s):

L'installation Freeze est un projet artistique public du Convenience curatorial collective

Artist's biography:

Belmore, Rebecca

Author's biography:

Yero, Osvaldo

Source:

1. Rebecca Belmore, artiste : rebeccabelmore@yahoo.ca 2. Osvaldo Yero, artiste: osvaldoyero@yahoo.ca

Document(s):

Nuit Blanche: Toronto made suddenly magical

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. Toronto Canada 2006. Zone C. Freeze

Archive. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2006. Zone C. Curated Exhibition. Freeze, 2006

Supporting creativity: but only for 12 hours?

Hold That Thought

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:01:01 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Mark, Kelly

Artwork creator(s):

Mark, Kelly

Text author(s):

Mark, Kelly

Text author(s):

Mark, Kelly

Collaborator(s):

Neon sign construction by Orest Tataryn

Installation year:

2006

Remarks on location:

Intersection Avenue Road; installée sur la façade de l’église

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2006). Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2006/)

Description:

Installation spécifique. Plusieurs des lettres ont été programmées à l'échec ou par pulvérisation cathodique (scintillement sur et en dehors) à des intervalles aléatoires.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

HOLD THAT THOUGHT

Artwork theme:

Idée passagère, expérience personnelle, temps (perte de temps, passage du temps)

History

History:

Événement: «Kelly Mark: Stupid Heaven» (Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON.
12 janvier-24 février 2008

Événement: «Kelly Mark: Stupid Heaven» (Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, ON. Commissaire: Barbara Fischer)
14 septembre-21 octobre 2007

Événement: «Kelly Mark: Stupid Heaven» (Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, Toronto, ON.Commissaire: Barbara Fischer)
13 septembre-28 octobre 2007

Événement : Scotiabank Nuit Blanche (Première exposition dans un espace public. Church of the Redeemer, Toronto, ON. Site specific installation created for the festival 2006. Commissaires: Fern Bayer, Peggy Gale & Chrysanne Stathacos). Du coucher du soleil le samedi, 30 septembre au matin du dimanche, 1 octobre 2006.

Événement: «Apparent Death» (Wynick/Tuck Gallery, project room, Toronto, ON)
29 septembre-17 novembre 2006

Dimensions

Height:

4.57m

Width:

8.13m

Depth:

7.62 m

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Note(s):

Installed at a street intersection…where people are forced to pause. This sign asks one to also pause ones mind…’to hold that thought’…if for only a moment. The temporal nature of this fleeting moment becomes a unique and personal experience for each viewer.

Thought and language are intimately connected. We cannot have a thought without also having the words we would use to express that thought to another. Streets can be viewed as the physical arteries of a city…When you try to hold a thought…the mind wanders, other thoughts intrude and displace…thoughts flow through our minds in the same way blood flows through our veins.

Source: Kelly Mark (2009). Kelly Mark: Sculpture.

http://www.ireallyshould.com/HoldThatThought4.html

Artist's biography:

Kelly Mark

Document(s):

Kelly Mark

Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche. Toronto Canada 2006. Kelly Mark. Hold That Thought

Archive. Scotiabanck Nuit Blanche 2006. Zone A. Curated Exhibition. Hold That Thought, 2006. Kelly Mark

Sculpture. Hold That Thought

Words Travel Fast

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:32:24 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Art for Commuters

Artwork creator(s):

Art for Commuters

Text author(s):

Pohl-Weary, Emily; Schultz, Emily; Whittall, Zoe

Text author(s):

Pohl-Weary, Emily

Schultz, Emily

Whittall, Zoe

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

Toutes les stations de métro de la TTC

Artwork description

Source : Photo transmise par Art for Commuters

Description:

Six animations jouées en plein écran sur le réseau pendant douze heures

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

• Animation: Treading the Word Poésie par Zoe Whittall. Animation par Emma Lopez Hochem.

«You have water, and the word water. You have love and the word love, but the two will never meet. We will lie beneath the letters in a haze of diaphanous pollution and probability, weighing our odds. I love you at the end of a phone call, it hovers, before the click signaling the end of a sentence, then it falls like equivocal truth. We are mostly water. We are mostly love. We are trying to quit smoking and sugar. We are ridding the body of the word Body. We hold red fruit between our teeth. Our gum-lines pink softened typewriter ribbon. We wrap our meat singing corporate jingles. Not dental insurance and you can carry orajel in your purse to stave off crying jags of frustration. You are my heart, and you are my heart stitched into a canvas. I hold thirty coffee beans. I count caloric value. You have water, the word water, and the body is mostly. We hold ours close. We say the words in hopes they are doing their job and not being as indeterminate as they are. Language tries its best. Language gets straight Cs You have kool-aid and the word kool-aid, and the jingle comes when I’m sleeping. The taste is red. We drink water. We drink the word water. We lie beneath the W. We tell each other , You are not filled with lack. We sing beneath the R, Treading the word. The End»

• Animation: Denial chasers Poésie par Zoe Whittall. Animation par Emma Lopez Hochem.

«Under the circumstances I’d like to pretend the drinks you pour me are apostrophes housed in triples disguised as doubles liquor too sweet not to be fire back against boxes of empties surprising you at the pulse of the industrial dishwasher.»

• Animation: Leftovers Poésie par Emily Schultz. Animation par Franco Barroeta Fonseca.

«The sky is a damp paper towl laid over the world to stop it from going bad. And you are in the bowl watching the morning light obstructed by layers – the walls of the city sloping gently above you so that the whole world lives within the mouth of a constant yawn. People in transit swim around you with goldfish mouths. Your boss gives you useless gifts to keep you on-board as you stumble home under that grey six o’clock sky watching the clouds for a break – a place where the thick rolls away, giving way to oxygen and earnest light.» Emily Schultz

• Animation: Two Minutes (120 per hour) Poésie par Emily Schultz. Animation par Franco Barroeta Fonseca

The rain folds the night, paper crackling between its arthritic fingers. We drive without talking, without thinking, the world around us an open mouth. The wheels hold us, humming over wet concrete. The searching green-eyed glow of speedometer. A billboard’s bright face against the dark. An exit sign. We follow the arrows, read without reading. Service center like a space station, we find our feet again, unfold-lock up, fumble, walk, and float. The air starched hard against our teeth. We carry out, and swallow sweet. Tonight, tonight,tomorrow, tomorrow, we go, slamming doors, tiny teeth of a key kissing the ignition.

• Animation: To Build A Home Poésie par Emily Pohl-Weary. Animation par Karen Richardson.

Start with a firm foundation. Place the bricks just so. Avoid regrets, ghosts, fist fights, unemployment, dead cats buried in the garden low self-esteem, petty thievery, bullying, and assisted suicide. Cement should slide in between the scandals, forming bonds and hardening in the hot sun. A roof must bridge the walls. A swing set placed beneath the lilacs. Mousetraps purchased, installed. Finally, despite initial resistance, Erect a high fence around the entirety.

• Animation: My Gold Hair Is So Unreliable Poésie par Emily Pohl-Weary. Animation par Karen Richardson.

«Green light, the city rips past. Rain in Chinatown, fish markets, garbage bags oozing brown urine. Saturday night in dance-club heaven, teenage girls crumble under speeding tires. Lost in the midnight of boy love, Caught in flashes of light I sparkle brightly until hard night wind attacks my miniskirt high heels burn fire fueled by wandering. I always return to your smooth beer drinking, bubbles of love. The taxicab driver tries but he cannot bring me home fast enough Your eyes in the window. I walk up the path My left shoe grazes the curb F***king toes. It might have come from the neighbours, “I guess I don’t love you” rippled out in all directions.»

Artwork theme:

Fusion du visuel et du littéraire dans l'art

History

History:

Animation graphique : Poésie et animation graphique ont été jumelées de la façon suivante: production d’Emily Pohl-Weary (poésie) jumelée avec celle de Karen Richardon (animation graphique) ; Emily Schultz (poésie) avec Franco Barroeta Fonseca (animation graphique) ; et Zoe Whittall (poésie) avec Emma Lopez Hechem (animation graphique).

Diffusion : Avec la collaboration de Onestop Media, compagnie médiatique qui se charge notamment du réseau médiatique du TTC(Toronto Transit Commission), ce projet a été diffusé sur les écrans présents dans le métro du TTC.

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Art for Commuters

Author's biography:

Onestop Media Group

Propriétaire(s):

Les artistes et les poètes

Source:

1. Patricia Griffith Network Co-ordinator, ONESTOP Network Member of CODA (Canadian Out of Home Digital Association) telephone : 416-646-7867 x47 | télécopieur: 416-646-2722 266 King Street West, Suite 300 Toronto ON M5V 1H8 www.oohdigital.ca 2. Onestop Media, questions générales : info@onestopmediagroup.com 3. Art For Commuters, questions générales : contact@art4commuters.com 4. Sharon Switzer Executive Director / Curator, Art For Commuters www.sharonswitzer.com sharon@sharonswitzer.com 5. Zoe Whittall : trash_ready@hotmail.com 6. Emily Schultz : emilyschultz@rogers.com 7. Emily Pohl-Weary : emily@kissmachine.com Dani Couture : dani.couture@gmail.com

Document(s):

Words Travel Fast 07

Art for Commuters. Past Projects

Wish you were here

Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:08:34 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Woodcock, Laurel

Artwork creator(s):

Woodcock, Laurel

Text author(s):

Woodcock, Laurel

Text author(s):

Woodcock, Laurel

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

B8 sur la carte de visite de l’événement (zone B, exposition numéro 8). Niveau Grange Road. Située à l’extrémité nord du parc.

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2008). Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2007/artists/b8.html)

Description:

Jet de lumière sur le sol.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

wish you were here

Text theme:

Inciter l’envie de l’inaccessible

History

History:

Wish You Were Here³, Galerie YYZ, 8 sept- 23 oct 2004, Toronto

Wish You Were Here, projet dans le cadre de la thématique «At The Corner of Time and Place», Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2007, Toronto. Nouvelle version de l’œuvre (projecteur de gobo, ballons gonflables remplis d’hélium)

Event date(s):

2007

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Laurel Woodcock

Source:

«Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto Canada 2007». Sur le site Centre de l’art contemporain canadien. La base de données sur l’art canadien. http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche2007/artists/images/woodcock/index.html (Consulté le 1 juin 2008). 1. Laurel Woodcock, artiste Tél : 519-824-4120 poste 53659 laurelw@sympatico.ca (autre courriel : lawoodco@uoguelph.ca) 2. Giannina Warren Media relations Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 416-395-7318 gwarren@toronto.ca informations générales : scotiabanknuitblanche@toronto.ca Giannina Warren Media relations, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 416-395-7318 gwarren@toronto.ca informations générales : scotiabanknuitblanche@toronto.ca

Document(s):

Laurel Woodcock : play / pause / repeat

Aurora Readiness Centre

Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:29:23 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

MacDonell, Annie

Artwork creator(s):

MacDonell, Annie

Text author(s):

MacDonell, Annie; Le Public

Text author(s):

MacDonell, Annie

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

A10 Pièce 066

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2007). Annie MacDonell. Aurora Readiness Centre.(http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2007/artists/a10.html)

Description:

Installation recréant un abri nucléaire tel qu'il était avant son démantèlement en 1996. Les participants sont invités à inscrire des mots sur les murs.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Texte par Annie Macdonell (dans le décor)

shape of fear wall

shape of hope wall

METRO STATUS BOARD

Texte (extrait) d’un film

PREPARE TO LIVE

Texte (partiel) du public

SAVE ME

Be proactive

FAT MAN

MAKE it stop

Never knew a love like this

Pinot angrigio

Bears

Why can’t we be friends?

WE CAN CHANGE

DBA

WASTE of TIME

Dropping the F-Bomb

GIVE PEAS A CHANCE

Peace through Power

This is Witty

NO WAR

HUMAN RIGHTS

Peace

AHHHH

Stand up for your rights

Refuse to be afraid

WAR SUCKS

ALL WE ARE SAYING

THINK 4 YOURSELF

Logically we should be safe

Roots are flowers

ONE love

YOU

ANAL

Peace+love

PAUL Norrish

POISON

This is it?

THE END

NOT AGAIN

NOT COOL

E=MC²

SOS

Xeper

ART MATTERS

RAGE

WET PAINT

WAR CAN

YOU CAN’T HUG YOUR CHILDREN

PEACE STARTS WITH YOU

WISE-FOOLISH

DON’T DRONE&DRIVE

Leeroy Jenkins

NEVER AT HOME

BE BRAVE

LIVE-PEACE

THE END OH MY!

I believe LOVE is the ANSWER

LOVE WINS

LOVE MORE HATE LESS

ZOMBIE

be the change

BAD TIMES ARE ON!

DE TU ARTE A MI ARTE PREFIERO MI ARTE

Leslie is a FAG!

Why is this happening?

NO HATE

Refuse TO BE Afraid

LOVE CONQUERS ALL

SISTERS

YOU FORGET ABOUT ME

WAR IS GOOD

NO ETERNAL REWARD WILL FORGIVE

PEACE THROUGH TYRANNY

Remember UNGERN

PAX

EARLY TO BED EARLY TO RISE

WAR AND VIOLENCE KILL LOVE DOESN’T

U r all HUMAN

People kill people

Peace in the middle

Text theme:

La peur, l’espoir, la menace, la guerre froide

Artwork theme:

Guerre froide

History

History:

On a fourni l des matériaux tels du papier, de l’encre et des pinceaux, dans un décor écolier aux visiteurs. Les seules instructions qui leur ont été données étaient les mots «THE SHAPE OF FEAR WALL» sur un mur et «THE SHAPE OF HOPE WALL» sur un autre dans la pièce. Avec les matériaux fournis, ils ont produit du texte et des images en réaction à cela.
Les films projetés au cours de la soirée servaient à instruire la population canadienne pendant la guerre froide, afin qu’elle apprenne comment réagir dans le cas d’une attaque nucléaire.
L’exposition comprenait une aire de lecture («reference area», A. MacDonell) dans laquelle se trouvait divers documents : des photocopies d’informations cueillies par l’artiste au cours de sa recherche personnelle sur la guerre froide, des graphiques gouvernementaux (niveaux municipal, provincial et fédéral) de l’époque, estimant l’impact d’une éventuelle attaque nucléaire sur Toronto/le pays, puis aussi des bandes dessinées des années 50 et 60. Une section regroupait de message officiel émis par le gouvernement concernant la guerre froide. Une deuxième section regroupait les médias de l’époque qui ont réagi à ce message.

Event date(s):

2007

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Note(s):

L’œuvre fut démantelée par le public à la fin de la nuit de l’exposition; aucune documentation exhaustive n’existe de la présence du littéraire dans cette œuvre; aucun ordre n’est établi dans la lecture du texte de l’œuvre. La lecture des passages (autonomes) est aléatoire. Aucune hiérarchie n’est établie dans le texte du décor, celui crée par l’artiste ou le public, ni celui contenu dans les divers documents présents dans l’aire de lecture.

Artist's biography:

Annie MacDonell

Propriétaire(s):

Annie MacDonell

Source:

«Annie MacDonell. Aurora Readiness Centre. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. Toronto Canada 2007». Sur le site Centre de l’art contemporain canadien. La base de données sur l’art canadien. http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche2007/artists/images/macdonell/index.html#19 (Consulté le 24 mai 2008). 1. Annie MacDonell, artiste T : 416 537 0973 17 Paton rd. Studio 2 Toronto M6H 1R7 annie.macdonell@gmail.com

Document(s):

Annie MacDonell. Aurora Readiness Centre