Hub A

Zone B

#12 Everybody Loves You 2
Daisuke Takeya - Toronto, Ontario

Inspired by years of hearing his Japanese name mispronounced by everybody, Daisuke Takeya has created a unique interactive video installation that will encourage you to think of what it means to love and to be loved within a rather funny Japanese pop manner.

#20 Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
End of the Party Party

On October 8, 2007, the AGO will close for eight months to reinstall their galleries, so for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche they are throwing an "end of the party" party. The DJ has saved the best songs for last and everybody is feeling good.

#13 Midnight Mirage

Vessna Perunovich - Toronto, Ontario

For the duration of the event the artist will be serving a humble Serbian "bread & bean" dish to a circulating 12-member audience in an effort to stimulate cultural and social exchange. An all-night ritual of food consumption and conversation.

#10 WHAT WILL YOU DO?
Nina Czegledy, Greg Judelman, Deborah Hession and Daniel Barber - Toronto, Ontario
An interactive installation displays the question "What will you do (to stop climate change)?" and invites the general public to declare their actions in defence of global warming. Responses are by SMS text message to a specified local phone number and appear within seconds as part of a projected real-time visualization. This project explores the potential of participatory art in public space to convert individual awareness to collective action on the climate change crisis.

#25 CN Tower

Wonderful Nuit - Taking Art to New Heights

Participate in this unique photo-based installation by photographing the city from the top of the CN Tower and other vantage points - then submit your photos on-line. Limited availability to the top of the CN Tower through pre-registration only at www.cntower.ca/nuitblanche.

Zone C

City Glow

Chiho Aoshima - Tokyo, Japan

Chiho Aoshima's imagination spreads like moss. Travelling playfully and unstoppably through seductive and sinister settings, it gives an account that traverses geographical and temporal confines. Scenes constantly unfold and emerge at the periphery of the frame.

#3 Locust

Noboru Tsubaki and Hishashi Muroi - Hyogo, Japan

Noboru Tsubaki's lone, gargantuan Locust descends upon Lamport Stadium. Separated from its migratory swarm, its status as a remnant or threat of airborne plagues to come is unclear. Is this cute, colourful, cartoon-like insect a real threat or a personal omen? What is our crime and what is our defense? Do we take comfort in Liliputian safety? For how long will these ropes hold? For how long can we keep our fears at bay?

#4 Insomnosonic

Wyrd Visions
2:30am-3:30am
An oddly ceremonious, upbeat, contemplative, murky, deep, rich, percussive, spontaneous, meditative, trance-inducing, ambient, epic, musical experience. An eclectic mix of Toronto bands play through the night.

#6 INCURSION
43:38:36.19N/79:25:19.89W °, 2007
Craig Walsh-Brisbane, Australia

A storefront fills with water, eventually populated by large, almost prehistoric fish that swim throughout. This dream-like vision comes to us through the manipulation of scale and subversion of architectural space and its function. Plates, dinner tables and party goers are denied their place. Observers take comfort and seek refuge out on the street, looking in.

못가본 곳이 너무 많아서 너무 아쉽다...12시간이 짧다는 걸 느낀 하루~

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a free all-night contemporary art thing

September 29, 2007 7:03 pm to sunrise

Zone A

#9 The Ghost Station

Kristen Roos - Cortes Island, British Columbia

Lower Bay Station, Toronto's ghost station, is used as a vessel to contain sounds that are within and below the threshold of human hearing - infrasound and tactile sound - where sound is felt rather than heard. Low frequencies created by cars and subways are contributors to the cacophony of infrasonic noise that exists deep below the rumbling of the city. These tactile sounds have also been associated with paranormal activity and ghost sightings.

#2 Noite de São João (Night of Saint John)

Laura Belém - Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Noite de São João magically transposes a rural Brazilian festival into the urban landscape of Toronto. In Brazil, for the Feast of Saint John, villages are decorated with multi-coloured paper flags in a night celebration of music, dancing and food. In Toronto, Belém fills the sky with star-studded blue flags swaying to a soundscape of field recordings from the Brazilian festival, reinventing our relation to our surroundings in a poetic white night.

#11 Untitled (Box Project #2)
Georgia Dunne - Toronto, Ontario

Three boxes restlessly mimic the most basic of human activity. While one box may shake slightly, another may stay still for a period of time, only to frustratingly try to inflate itself. Outside of these basic functions, I wonder what defines us as human.

#31 Drabinsky Gallery
Estado de Gracia

Drabinsky Gallery features contemporary art by emerging and mid-career Canadian artists along with the work of selected American and International artists. Painting, works on paper and photography form the nucleus of our exhibition schedule. A Tango demonstration will be held at the gallery to accompany the exhibition. There may be dancing in the street!

#21 Gallery Gevik
Painters Eleven: Toronto in the 50s
Featured artists: Jack Bush, Oscar Cahèn, Hortense Gordon, Tom Hodgson, Alexadra Luke, Ray Mead, Kazuo Nakamura, Jock Macdonald, William Ronald, Harold Town and Walter Yarwood.

#34 Kinsman Robinson Galleries
Tom Forrestall
A sneak preview of "Tom Forrestall - New Paintings" precedes the 2008 retrospective at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS). Renowned Canadian realist, Tom Forrestall, has created twelve meticulously-painted egg temperas for this showing.

#22 The Gardiner Museum

Group exhibition
Art installation by Ben Oakley and free hands-on art projects and museum admission from dusk to dawn. Get dirty in the clay studios, enjoy the unique collections and beat the night away in an all night drum circle with BOOM!

#12 String of Diamonds

Newmindspace (Kevin Bracken and Lori Kufner) - Toronto, Ontario
A long, glistening string of bright, white lights seems to hang from the heavens, taller than surrounding buildings. Moved gently by the wind, the lights have an ephemeral shimmer to them as they sway back and forth.

#15 Bata Shoe Museum

Talia Erlich
Partnering with the Bata shoe museum, environmental artist Talia Erlich has designed an interactive walking meditation on ecological imprinting. It begins with a 50-foot long photo montage of dark footprints set against a backdrop of "deep space". Representing a broad "landscape view", this component is also mounted with earth magnets onto the museum's Bloor St. window - east of the entrance. Toward the entranceway, glass footprints can be seen circling above the revolving door, referencing fragility and calling attention to the steps ahead. Beyond the threshold, an interactive prayer flag will be co-created throughout the night, constructed from long ribbons of transparent cellulose.

#36 Eric Arthur Gallery, U of T
Graphic Virtuosity: Architectural Posters
Robert G. Hill Collection
Toronto architect Robert G. Hill's architectural posters document continuing shifts in the style and development of 20th Century architecture. The printed poster serves as a tool and forum for graphic experimentation and exploring architectural imagery.

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