Come and catch a rare glimpse of 401 Richmond Street West by moonlight. This one hundred year old converted factory in downtown Toronto will be open all night for art happenings, gallery exhibitions, screenings, and interventions.
401 Richmond will come alive with installations by Leif Harmsen, Marlena Zuber, Zeesy Powers, and Jess Dobkin. And "one chance" performances by the Academy of Spanish Dance, Danny Gorman, Leifaroni Harminsini, Louis Calabro, Mike Sharpe, Melissa Major, Will Culbert and Nigel Craig. Plus work by over 40 artists in the Art in the Halls exhibition. Visit
www.401richmond.net
for complete participant listings and performance times.
Canadian Collage Enthusiasts will be making collages during Scotiabank Nuit Blanche at 401. All collage enthusiasts are welcome to participate. Past, present and future enthusiast collages will be on display.
Don't miss the midnight building tour starting in the main lobby to see some highlights in lowlights!
401 Richmond Galleries:
A Space Gallery
416-979-9633
Wagon Burner: Princess Moonrider That!
Terrance Houle and Maria Hupfield
This multi-disciplinary collaborative exhibit borrows imagery from old film westerns to confront stereotypes of Aboriginal people within the media and popular culture.
Cinecycle
416-971-4273
Various Artists
Continuous projection of classic films in the outdoor courtyard.
SAVAC - South Asian Visual Arts Collective
416-542-1661
www.savac.net
g.o.t.c.h.a {Gathering Ordinary Telephotos and Capturing Hidden Attitudes}
Site-specific new media installation created by Faisal Anwar
A real-time site specific new media installation created over a span of 12 hours. Artists and audiences attending Nuit Blanche are welcomed to participate in this surveillance project. You can take photographs discreetly or overtly of people you identify as "ethnic" based on your own perception and interpretation. Participants are asked to use their cell phones to capture photos. These photos will be used to create a real-time projection in 401 Richmond.
You can also participate during Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
- Use your camera cell phone
- Take a picture based on your interpretation of the concept
- Send a picture message at
up@dgdip.com
- View the real-time installation at 401 Richmond - South Hallway
Note: you can send as many pictures as you want
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
416-979-3941
www.gallery44.org
Alone
Jennifer Campbell, Kate Greenslade, Marisa Portolese, Lori Newdick
From the Margins, shown across two galleries, Gallery 44 and TPW, interweaves the work of photographers exploring questions of collective cultural and/or gender identity with photographs that deal with various private attempts on the part of their subjects (sometimes the artists themselves) to grapple with their individual location within culture.
Janet Attard Studios
416-971-4273
Bicycles in the Urban Environment
Janet Attard
A large colourful display of stencils from the artist's collection.
Open Studio
416-504-8238
www.openstudio.on.ca
Curated by Penelope Stewart
Reg Beatty, Naomi London, Angela Silver and Osnat Weiss
Throughout the night in the printmaking studio, viewers are invited to witness artists creating integrated prints using the cadavre exquise approach to printmaking where each print changes hands and techniques -- lithography, intaglio, screenprinting and relief.
The Red Head Gallery
416-504-5654
www.redheadgallery.org
Insomnia
Group exhibition featuring gallery members and guests
Insomnia at the Red Head Gallery is a group exhibition featuring gallery members and guests which explores sleeplessness as a physical, cultural, political or psychological state. Emphasis is placed on the ephemeral, the multiple and the obsessive.
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art
416-591-0357
www.prefix.ca
Sphere
Finnbogi Pétursson
Sphere represents the Canadian premiere of both this artist and his highly demanded light and sound installation, the loan of which has been secured from the prestigious collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Vienna.
YYZ Artists' Outlet
416-598-4546
www.yyzartistsoutlet.org
Y Gallery: Mark Bell, Toronto; Z Gallery: Borderdom, Nancy Duff, Vancouver
Mark Bell presents a selection of new paintings that address the ongoing relationship between history and photography. Nancy Duff presents eight large images of aerial views of Mexican/USA and Canadian/USA borders.
Trinity Square Video in partnership with Imagine Native Festival present new "video sculptures" by Jude Norris.
HUM is a sound work featuring artist Kelly Mark humming a tune over and over again. The project room will have video work that is silent and can be viewed from outside the windows from 401 Richmond's main hallway.
V Tape
416-351-1317
www.vtape.org
Patriotic
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (Toronto) & Pascal Lievre (Paris)
Canadian Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay and French performance artist Pacal Lievre collaborate in a music video with a homoerotic twist.
Image: Sphere, Finnbogi Pétursson, 2003
