NUIT BLANCHE: Fly By Night
Fly By Night – Our Annual One Night Only Nuit Blanche Celebration!
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Acclaim
BlogTO’s top ten Nuit Blanche Exhibits, “Under one roof one could watch cabaret, sing Karaoke, participate in a knitting circle, share a secret with a stranger, or play voyeur..”
– BlogTOOne of Torontoist’s favourite installations of the night, “The Gladstone Hotel can be depended on as a Nuit Blanche staple for seeing an array of indoor and outdoor exhibits throughout all four floors of the building.”– Torontoist
“It’s not surprising that the Gladstone pulled it off of course, as it’s well connected to the local art scene, and not just pretending to be for one night a year.”
“Under one roof one could watch cabaret, sing Karaoke, participate in a knitting circle, share a secret with a stranger, or play voyeur..”
– BlogTO
Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Sunset to Sunrise
Join us for a special one night only celebration of performance, exhibitions, music and surprises throughout the hotel. This year’s celebration explores eerie themes and features performative artwork, cabaret and installations throughout the hotel’s 4 floors.
Ballroom and throughout hotel Vaudeville Hotel
Come be our guest: Vaudeville Hotel brings you a night of hot burlesque, slapstick comedy, circus and live vaudeville. Last year we broke the record on the world longest burlesque show, this year we bring you more of the same, Featuring The Stars of Great Canadian Burlesque, Sketchy the Clown and his troupe of Misfits, Living legend April March, Live music, comedy, jugglers,magicians and tons more……. oh, be careful, our hotel doesn’t only have the acts to stage… you never know what may pop up right in front of you!
Lobby: Henry Adam Svec’s Reading Capital explores sincerity and commitment. The artist will read aloud the entirety of Marx’s Capital, and it will not be a performance.
Art Bar
Wish you were here by Samantha Mogelonsky reproduces the popular line used at the end of a post card sent back to a loved-one from a holiday in fluorescent light.
w a t e r by Mindy Alexander and Habir Rehill is a visual and auditory installation exploring our biological, spiritual, and political connections to the most vital and increasingly endangered resource on the plant: water.
Join Scotiabank Nuit Blanche’s team of volunteers who can help you navigate the evening all night long – find out what’s hot and happening in the neighbourhood and around the city.
Second Floor Exhibitions
Beautiful Ghosts – Chandeliers by Deborah Caruthers Like a moth to a flame we become helpless / to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds. From the Ryan O’Neal song, “All that is Beautiful” Memorials to persistent desire, these chandeliers represent a terrible beauty in which the desire to obtain the unattainable leads to immolation of the self. Persistent Desire – Sound Installation The whisper of tissue-thin wings and the “tick-tick-tick” of insect bodies hitting glass have been amplified. Familiar and strange- loud murmurings of beautiful ghosts.
Superfly by Dominique Cheng also creates an environment of flies suspended from the east hall ceiling.
They Call it a Thin Place by Kira Crugnale seeks to investigate properties of Lily Dale, New York—one of the world’s oldest remaining Spiritualist communities in America.
Secrets by Claire Bartleman: Secrets…everybody has them. This participatory performance piece explores the potency of personal secrets and what happens when they are shared intimately with a stranger. The question is, what secret are you going to tell?
There Below by Jessica Chan is an ephemeral environment populated by thoughts, ideas, emotions and sensory experiences. Visitors are invited to pause, open up and reflect through a series of questions posed on cards and hung up to create a physical experience
Still Life with Turkey Vulture by Miranda Crabtree: For Nuit Blanche, Miranda Crabtree is creating a life-sized still life installation. Be transported to the wilderness surrounding our city, where an unknown hunter has left us his prize
Studio Exhibitions:
201 - You’re Not Invited by Andrew MacDonald, Martin Kuchar & Christopher Collins – The performance piece You’re Not Invited will be a shifting work that involves three artist in a room performing various ‘artist’ activities. The doorway to the space will be blocked for physical entry but not for visual entry.
202 – Self Love Ball Cara Spooner, Adriana Disman, Andrea de Keijzer and Erin Robinsong Toronto – you’ve had a tough year, bike lane removal, ttc disrepair and a grim future ahead, come get a little love and lick your wounds at the Self Love Ball.
204 -Streetknit invites you to join them in an all night knitting circle and create garments for people in need.
205 -An Accidental Archive by Jessica Tai – An Accidental Archive utilizes found fabric, paper ephemera, and other assorted detritus to piece together notions of personal collections, and the role curation plays in their ultimate evolution as accepted truths.
206 - There Below by Jessica Chan is an ephemeral environment populated by thoughts, ideas, emotions and sensory experiences. Visitors are invited to pause, open up and reflect through a series of questions posed on cards and hung up to create a physical experience
207 -News from Nowhere by Joan Kaufman is a video installation of flocking black birds in a blood red sky that provokes a fractured interface between nature and technology.
208 So Deep by Gustavo Cerquera & Halley Rigbey – For your amazement, an exhibition of aquatic oddities brought up from the deepest reaches of the sea.
212 – Nest(ing) by O’Honey Collective – Leslie Putnam and David Bobier – By placing Nest(ing) within the realm of human experience, we explore the often tenuous and controversial intersection between the human and natural world.
209 – The Root of the Tree, a new, 6-minute, experimental film by Toronto director Britt Randle and starring Caroline Niklas-Gordon and Bruno Billio screens during Nuit Blanche from dusk till dawn in suite #209.
214 -Know You Got (KYG) by Tadaaki Hozumi – Know You Got (KYG) is a participatory performance, inspired by both the Soul Train line dance and Marina Abramovic’s Imponderabilia (1977), that plays with the structure of black/street dances to transform the passive viewer in to the role of unsuspecting performer. The dancing line created at the entrance of the event space by the rows of two-stepping performers, initiates and invites the surprised visitor in to a community of funk.
Special Exterior Presentations:
LEITMOTIF PRESENTS: LYNNE HELLER *
EVERYBODY DESERVES LOVE, EVEN YOU is an ongoing installation which uses the tropes of disco lighting and cast shadows to project poetry created from promising and sly found text from thousands of spam emails. Everybody Deserves Love, Even You, was the subject line of an email. Its despondent tone addresses contemporary cultural vulnerabilities, sadness, yearnings and desperation upon which marketers pray. The messages are concocted in endless variations: often funny, always bizarre, and occasionally poetic. Reminiscent of the seductive murmur of a foreign language, a sexualized computer voice whispers the text. The overly modulated and controlled cadence emphasizes the pervasiveness and monotony of spam, while at the same time, characterizing and transmogrifying the text. The work emphasizes the seemingly permanent ubiquity of spam as a shared experience and universal language – words that are largely ignored but still imbued with the power of omnipresence. Part of Leitmotif for Nut Blanche 2011 curated by Stuart Keeler.
Exterior:
Green Roof :Meeting Ground by GrifCat (Martha Griffith & Matthew Catalano) – Groomed poodles, Muskoka chairs, street art and sheep mingle on a grass-covered rooftop. The manicured environment is a “Meeting Ground” for these seemingly opposite elements.
2010 Exhibition
Gladstone Gallery, Art Bar and Exterior
fly-by-night: brief moments and fleeting experiences in ephemeral environments. One night only!
The Gladstone Hotel presents Nuit Blanche celebrations October 2, 2010. This exhibition will showcase temporary installations in the hotel’s exterior, second floor studio spaces, hallway and Art Bar. Artists concepts for ephemeral environments for visitors to experience.
With works by: Annie Wong, Bruno Bilio, Carla Susanto, Carol Barrett, Claudio Ghirardo, Christina Ott & Crow Design, David Anderson, Dawn Matheson, Denis Leclerc, Diane Gougeon, Dustin Wenzel, Chris Simonen, City Beautification Ensemble, Elly MacKay, Garth Tweedle, Gary MacLeod, Happy Sleepy Land, Joseph Muscat, Lynne Heller, Not Far from the Tree, Orest Tataryn, PADEJO, Paul Walty, Rachel Wong, Streetknit, Samantha Mogelonsky, Sandra Gregson, Sarah Nasby, Slavica Panic, Tara Cooper and Zorica Vasic.
From 6pm to 10pm join curators Jose Zelaya and Wael Qattan for a tour of Candid Aspirations works from the collection of Jonathan Demme and explore Caribbean works from the 50′s and 60′s.
Curated by: Britt Welter-Nolan and Christina Zeidler
Fly-by-night is curated by Christina Zeidler and Britt Welter-Nolan
Interested in applying to show? Applications are now closed. If you are interested in applying for the following year please fill in your email in the form on the right and we will contact you as soon as the call for submission is released.
