Christie Pearson with FM3, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Tim Hecker, Luis Jacob, Raz Mesinai, Orixasound, Sarah Peebles, Sandro Perri/Polmo Polpo, Ghislain Poirier, Marina Rosenfeld, Sickness Crew, and Windy & Carl
Installation
Artist-Architect Christie Pearson is obsessed with swimming pools. The existing environment of a Community Centre pool is transformed to recall an ancient forum from a city of the past - a Roman Bath - suggesting alternative ways of occupying public space.
Bring your bathing suit to Night Swim, a 12-hour swimming party with DJs. Explore the typical bathing sequence of the Roman Bath. Move in stages through leisure spaces with distinct temperatures, acoustic experiences, and potential activities. Linger in the Tot's Pool hot-tub turned caldarium. Soak up hourly sets by local and international sound artists. While floating on your back in the main pool get lost in reflection in the giant overhead mirror. Some spaces are about socializing, some about observing, some about listening, and some about your own experience. All connect you in slightly unusual ways to your senses, and - most importantly - to a new community.
Christie Pearson, the co-curator of the WADE festival of art in wading pools, helps design Community Centres in Toronto, including Trinity Bellwoods.
Bathing suits are not required to participate but are required to swim. Towels provided. Sound programming by Marcus Boon and Christie Pearson; sound design by Darren Copeland; lighting tech by Robin Dutt; Kinetic sculpture by Rob Cruickshank.
DJ Schedule
7-8pm Sarah Peebles
8-9pm Raz Mesinai
9-10pm Marina Rosenfeld
10-11pm FM3
11-12am Luis Jacob
12-1am Geoff Snack
1-2am Sandro Perri
2-3am Windy and Carl
3-4am Tim Hecker
4-5am Keith Fullerton Whitman
5-7am Orixasound
In association with Ninjatune, Kranky Records and Canadian Linen and Uniform Service.
Image courtesy of C. Pearson
Map location 9
Trinity Community Recreation Centre, 155 Crawford Street
