Stop and Flow
Written by Dillon Lobo Nuit Blanche’s Zone C, Should I Stay or Should I Go, delved into the aspects of movement, gridlock and mobility in an urban setting; the everyday reality of the downtown core. As you make your way down Yonge Street, the first exhibit you encounter, Auto Lamp, is a white ’96 … Read more
The Place to Be
Written by Davida Ander Map: Check. Transit pass: Check. Thick jacket: Check. Enough energy to last until sunrise: Check. Check. Check. Last Saturday evening Torontonians and visitors prepared for a night of awe at Scotiabank’s Nuit Blanche. There were a total of 40 official projects to see in Zone B at the Sound and Vision … Read more
Zone A+
What do you expect when visiting an art gallery? To be a witness to aesthetic marvels? To gaze at the lines, the curves and the colour? How about when the art gallery is the city? When the art are the facades and the structures and the spaces found within? Are the expectations then inflated? Do … Read more
Roads Shut Down for Toronto’s Annual Art All-Nighter
Jaywalking has never been so much fun. For 12 hours, two of Toronto’s busiest streets shut out vehicular traffic, opening the roads for pedestrians, to make room for the influx of art aficionados in town for one of the city’s most innovative events—Nuit Blanche, celebrating its fifth year anniversary. Sponsored by Scotiabank, Nuit Blanche brought … Read more
Pop Culture Candid Camera
Written by Diana Duong *June 1, 2010 Thirty years after his death, Marshall McLuhan’s insights still resonate inside the walls of the University of Toronto Art Centre. The Brothel Without Walls is one of the three primary exhibitions for the 2010 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, the world’s largest. Borrowing its name from McLuhan’s 1964 essay, … Read more
Sex in the Media Made Art
Written June 1, 2010 “Why not assist the public to observe consciously the drama which is intended to operate on it unconsciously?” -Marshall McLuhan Marshall McLuhan, an extraordinarily avant-garde thinker, was one of the first scholars to critically analyze commercial environments. In 1951, he published his first book, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man. … Read more
The World’s Largest Photography Festival on the Doorsteps of Toronto
Written May 16, 2010 The 2010 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival was on from May 1 to June 6. Primary exhibitions were “The Mechanical Bride” at MOCCA (952 Queen St W), “Through the Vanishing Point” at McLuhan Program of Culture and Technology (39A Queen’s Park Crescent E) and “The Brothel Without Walls” at University of Toronto … Read more
