Adrian Blackwell
Social sculpture
Blackwell proposes sculpture as social site. A circular, ramping seating structure, the piece is built to facilitate conversation between large numbers of people sitting in close proximity to one another. The structure looks like a crater, or a speaker facing upwards. Through this simple shape it is possible to sit looking inward towards one another or outward to the surrounding city.
For Nuit Blanche, mps (speaker) will be placed in Grange Park as a site for conversations based on the creative city and its possibilities. Throughout the night the site will host several public conversations facilitated by people living and working across the GTA. Intermingled with these discussions there will be a series of sonic conversations programmed in collaboration with Toronto's foremost experimental music venue, the Music Gallery, in which musicians from across the city will perform improvised and at times interactive music.
Open to passers-by to engage or watch throughout the night, this structure invites you to sit and commingle with performers. Between these planned events, use of the space will be left open and unfocused to support the development of spontaneous and diverse interactions.
Adrian Blackwell is an artist and architectural designer based in Toronto. His work concentrates on the effects of contemporary urbanization on social spaces.
Image: Adrian Blackwell, Model for a Public Space, photo, 2000
Map location 4
Grange Park (Grange Road and McCaul Street)
