Toronto’s Nuit Blanche is now just a day away. And although I’ve conducted my recommendations alphabetically, it also appears that I’ve saved the best for last. Zone C is looking good, and I can guarantee that the strongest concentration of Nuit Blanche visitors will be wandering in these parts.
Performativity is a central theme for Toronto’s Nuit Blanche, taking place October 4th, from 6:52pm to sunrise. It’s not only central to a lot of the work that goes on throughout the night, but I think it’s an apt description of audience as well. On what other occasion are so many citizens out and about [...]
Nuit Blanche 2006 was quaint compared to the explosiveness of its 2007 incarnation. While the swell of drifters was often difficult to penetrate to even get to the art, there were some wonderful pieces that made the senseless wandering worth it, including Mircea Cantor‘s Deeparture at the Isabel Bader Theatre, and Kristen Roos‘s Ghost Station [...]
A few weeks ago I interviewed NYC’s Poster Boy, a mash-up artist who uses the subway system as his medium and gallery space. After admitting to functioning as several different personas in the art world and citing Cindy Sherman as one of his influences, I was interested in learning more about how his economic/political experiences [...]
In a reinvented, neo-Dada sort of way, Poster Boy’s on-site mash-ups appropriate advertising imagery to create subversive posters in very public spaces — the NYC subway system. I first came across Poster Boy on Gawker, where they noted how good vandals were becoming. After FFFFOUNDing one of his images, the artist emailed me, acknowledging my [...]
