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1 ...................About Nb
2 ...................DesigN PhilosoPhy
3 ...................FuN sliDe
5 ...................the City
7 ...................the APology ProjeCt
9 ...................WitChes CrADles
11..................resCue bubble
13..................goNe iNDiAN
15..................ghost Chorus
17..................souNDiNg sPACe
19..................rAbbit bAllooN
21..................immiNeNt DePArture
23..................AlieNAtioN
25..................VoDkA Pool
27..................sPeeD shiFt
29..................10 sCeNts
31..................beAutiFul light
33..................PWN the WAll
35..................CoNClusioN
36..................CreDits
inventory
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Nuit Blanche 2009a ree all-night comtemporary art thing
Nuit Blanche 2009, took place on the night o October 3. It looked
excellent this year. Perhaps more serious than past years, many o
the pieces were designed to make you consider the meaning o your
surroundings. With more perormance-based work than previous
years, there were many ways or getting you involved with the art.
For one sleepless night the city experienced a transormation by close
to 500 artists or Torontos ourth annual sunset to sunrise celebration
o contemporary art. Art was installed in galleries, museums ,and
other unexpected places; rom churches and grocery stores, to
chimney stacks and bus stations.
It was a night when even the iconic CN Tower became a piece o
installation art, seeming to bop and boogie with color and sound,
courtesy o the tunes supplied by CIUT Radio 89.5 FM. From dusk to
dawn, the ourth edition o Scotiabank Nuit Blanche eatured
12 hours o art, music and live perormance in 132 projects created by
more than 550 artists, local, national and international, supplementedby 459 volunteers. Nuit Blanche is both a high art event and a ree
community event that draws people out and into the streets o
Toronto to become part o a contemporary art phenomenon.
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Design Philosophycommunicating unreality
Nuit Blanche 2009 was an event eaturing highly abstract installations
inuenced by culturally and socially-rich meanings and symbolisms.
Following the photography phase o the project, I realized that I
would not succeed in communicating the essence o the event by
simply placing original images onto the page. No one image can
convey the multi-aceted conceptual nature intended by NB artists.
Following some reection, I decided that each spread will be separate
and unique, comprised o a collage rom various photos o eachart work. I would eventually supplement certain compositions with
illustrative elements, to enhance the ambiguity o my perception.
My approach is based not on pre-determined aesthetics or rigid
signature styles, rather, it grows naturally rom a quest or ideas,
thought, and answers. Designs are never imposed; they evolve rom
a rigorous inquiry into the particulars o composition, intended
messages, and the artistic style o the designer. They also represent
my determined belie that we can transorm problem-solving through
application o the creative method.
I eel that the fnal pieces o art in this book reect the mood I
experienced at the Nuit Blanche setting. The colorul, chaotic, blurry,
and indefnite study o the event constructively reects my outlook.
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Fun SlideThis ride reects the whirling, tilting
exhilaration o the bull market and its
less than thrilling collapse. Free to the
public and staed by recently downsized
businesspeople, the rides invite audience
members to kinetically contemplate the
ups and downs o the recent economic
crisis. Out o the darkened fnancial district,
screams will be heard!
Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan
Our promises o sweet nothings, I think, will be
more lling than the sweet nothings promised by
olks on Bay Street.
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The CITY
Yes the lines were too long, the streets too crowded,
and the TTC too packed. Almost a million Torontonians
spent Saturday night and the early hours o Sunday
morning scurrying around the city to experience wNuit
Blanche; lineups at almost all participating venues
oered a strong indication that NB had surpassed even
the most conservative audience estimates. Streets
were clogged with people experiencing everything
the strangeness this night had to oer. There was art
in car washes, art on outdoor billboards, art on street
corners and art in parks.
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Mayor David Miller
Im pleased and proud to have been able to be
part o the inaugural Nuit Blanche in Toronto. For
one exciting night Toronto became a city alive
with culture and buzzing with excitement. Nuit
Blanche really showcased Torontos proud and
vibrant arts scene. I look orward to many more
nights like this.
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The Apology Project
Fity-fve people will congest the entrance
o a tunnel while wearing brown paper bags
over their bodies and personally apologizingto everyone who walks through. I these
people were truthully sorry they would stop
obnoxiously congesting the tunnel and would
go home and sleep instead o being disruptive
or twelve hours. The piece exposes a double
image that makes you question the sincerity
behind the words I am sorry. Its also a tongue
and cheek reerence to the notion that Canadiansare overly apologetic.
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Maria Legault
Thinking about the nature o guilt and apology
and how we handle these as individuals and as
a society was what made me come up with this.
What does it mean to say we are sorry when it is
not accompanied by action?
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Tomer Diamant
I began to see pylons everywhere, to
notice how really ubiquitous they are.
Once you have a reason to notice them,
youd be shocked to see how many you
pass by every day, unclaimed pylonsthat have been abandoned for different
reasons. Theyre in the most public
spaces and yet theyre invisible.
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Rescue BubbleAs the humble oot soldiers o disposable
inrastructure, trafc pylons solicit an indierent
compliance in our daily navigations o the city.
Here however, hundreds are amassed into
a single glowing beacon o urgent concern.
This installation represents an attempt to link
imagery rom the world o Sci-Fi; that o the
solitary, ominous alien vanguard with our current
speculative economic reality in order to crystallizea eeling o a looming presence; a oreign,
spore-like organism at once amiliar and oreign,
promising and dangerous.
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Rebecca Belmore
Hell be dancing, and Ill be doing my own
thing, but I wont tell you what it is.
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Gone Ind ian
An artistically rezzed-up pickup truck that
drives slowly around downtown. Decked out in
traditional pow-wow regalia, the truck eatures
ongoing drumming and vocals, and a dancer that
erupts into action at unsuspecting moments.
Over the course o the night, the rhythms and
intonations o First Nations culture reverberate
against ofce buildings and re-territorialize the
fnancial district.
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Ghost Chorus
Against the auditory background o a looped
clip rom a track on the OMD album Dazzle
Ships (1983), a chorus o ghost-costumed
enchanters stands in a circle. Wearing sheets that
glow in the dark, they voice slang words long
dead, disused, or disavored in a gesture towards
reanimating them.
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Katie Bethune-Leamen
I really wanted do a piece that
glowed in the dark. The rest o the
elements o the work were taken
rom things I am working on right
now in my art practice, and the
parameters o NB itsel.
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Sounding Space
The north courtyard entrance o Scotia Plaza
transormed into an extraordinary, interactive
and collaborative musical instrument or NuitBlanche. Visitors touch, jump and play with
tiles, benches and planters to create music.
Covering 3500 square eet, the project alters the
space rom a place o serious fnancial business
into a musical playground. A space where you
can become the audience, the participant, and
the perormer.
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Karlen Chang
NB is not just discovering new art; it satises our deep thirst
or new ways to interact with each other. Were social
animals, online, at parties, and on our streets. Instead
o just being a passive audience we want new social
interactions that create meaningul experiences.
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Rabbit Balloon
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Je Koons
It comes rom my upbringing, I grew
up in south-central Pennsylvania, in a
rural community, and at special times o
the year, people would put things outin their ront yard or decoration, like
reindeer at Christmas time. In the spring,
around Easter time, there would be
rabbits, infatable rabbits. I was always
very struck by the generosity o the
neighbors in doing that, giving pleasure
to other people in that way.
It reects the needs o culture and society and can represent
so many dierent things to the viewer. In the looking glass
or through it, step right up and jump into this circle with the
hole in the middle and rise or all into a wonderland o your
own making. Its late, its late on this very magnifcent date.
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Imminent DEPARTURE
Lie-changing upheavals, whether caused by
personal, economic or historic events, serve as the
backdrop or this intervention in Torontos historic
terminus. The Great Hall o Union Station is the
arena or countless stories o last minute escapes,
lovers reunions, missed connections, riding the
rails, and uncertain arewells.
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Heather Nicol
I had lled the main hall with colour, shadow,
og and voices. People lay on the ground and
gave themselves up to their senses. This station,
which Ive rushed through a thousand times,
catching trains, leaving trains, became
de-amiliarized. Beautiul. Strange.
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Alienation
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Eugene Olin
Although this exhibit probably had a name,
meaning, and artist, this particular photograph
means something personal to me. The
composition contains a silhouette o a bicycle with
a gure whose back is turned away; the entire
scene is surrounded by red pylons. This reminds
me that sometimes humans become tired o the
ride and wish to take a break to nap on the side
o the road. Such individuals are isolated and
deemed social outcasts. Albert Einstein once said
Everything that is really great and inspiring
is created by the individual who can labour in
reedom. It seems the poor ellow in this shotgrew bored o the organization he works. On his
way home he decided to rest a while, becoming
alienated rom the cultural tradition.
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Vodka poolA pool o 80-proo alcohol with volatile and symbolic
qualities. Liquor and liquidity bear more than passing
associations to banks and money. Intoxicating, like the
euphoria o riches; evaporating, like the vanishing o
investments during economic downturns; alchemical,
like the transormation o use value into exchange
value. In black markets and other underground
economies, the connections are even more literal. During
wars and totalitarian regimes alcohol serves as both
an escape and a home-brewed currency or procuring
essential goods and services.
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Dan Mihaltianu
A key aspect o his practice concerns research into
liquids and their associations and unctions. From
the worlds oceans to nancial liquidity, rom political
transparency to liquor and ood culture.
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Erwin Redl
The ormal aspect o the works is
easily accessible. An interpretation and
understanding o this aspect is dependent upon
the viewers subjective reerences. Equally, the
various individuals interactions within the context
o the installation re-shape each viewers subjective
reerences and reveal a complex social phenomenon.
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Speed ShiftThe installation places two artifcial visual
realities, Minimal Art and advertising
billboards, in unmediated juxtaposition.
Consumer society made Oscar Wildes
aphorism Lie imitates art ar more than art
imitates Lie into Lie imitates commercials
ar more than commercials imitate Lie.
Advertising has taken over society.
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10 Scents
Public toilets are flled with unlikely materials
and scents, their aromas conjuring up landscapes,
characters and events rom Lewis Carrolls classicantasy and logic-twister Alices Adventures in
Wonderland. Rather than journeying down a
rabbit-hole, visitors engage in their own adventures
by just opening the door. Visual, textual, and olactory
clues may coalesce, or not, posing evocative sensory
conundrums to ponder and explore.
Chih-Chien Wang
Is it time already or dinner?
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D.A. Therrien
In Egyptian mythology, the god Taht (Apollo
in Greek) was represented as a beautiul
light and this light represented knowledgeitsel. In the Bible, angels are described as
beings o light, messengers o light.
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Beautiful light
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Beautiful light :
4 letter word machineThe 4 LETTER WORD MACHINE, the frst
installation in the BEAUTIFUL LIGHT series,
explores the purity o white light, the mystery
o language, the precision o digital codes and
the magic o 4 letters, A, C, G, T, representingthe DNA code, and consequently all known
lie describing both the observable physical
nature o consequently, all known lie.
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PWN the wallGrafti Research Lab, a cross-
Canadian collaborative team, is
debuting bombIR, which is an
inrared-LED equipped spray can
that allows writers to physically
paint with light. In the ongoing
battle between grafti artists and
those who revile their work as
visual pollution; painting with light
provides at least one nights respite.
Conclusion
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Conclusionfnal words
Much as attending the event, working on this book was exciting and
inspiring. While visiting the installations at NB, I was exposed to many
interesting people and their concepts. I saw many artists visions come
to lie in unusual, but successul ways. I consider this book to be my
own success. Although I used photographs o other art, I believe that
some part o me inherently exists in each composition. Whilst working
on each collage I attempted to interpret not only the intended
meaning o each installation, but augment it with its environment
and my own thoughts. I believe I succeeded in doing so.
At frst I was somewhat sceptical o the artistic integrity o Nuit
Blanche; based on previous experience. However ater the visit my
attitude changed completely. Many o the projects were incredibly
thoughtul and conceptual. Some were inspired by myth and history,
others touched upon serious social, political, and economic issues, yet
others seemed spontaneously abstract. I imagine that my creation
communicates the beauty, mystery, and certain chaos that I elt at the
overnight estival.
By taking such an atypical way o constructing this photography book,
I evolved as a graphic artist. I learned to meditate on the concept
beore delving into development and production. At the outset o the
project I was determined to express the essence o NB, and was able
to produce distinct spreads powerul on their own. Yet they sit very
well in a book ormat complementing one another and contributing
to the overall message. I am really proud o this work and aspire to be
challenged in such ways in the uture.
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Credits
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Creditsevgeny olin
To gather material or this book I attended the 2009 Nuit Blanche
estival, where I took photographs o several installations and the
downtown area o Toronto. I used my Nikon D90 DSLR camera to
capture numerous images o my encounters. Following the event,
I came upon the idea o communicating my experiences in collage
ormat. To enhance certain spreads I used my own drawings within
the compositions, made in Adobe Illustrator. The collage artworks
were shaped using Adobe Photoshop to combine and enhance
several photographs. Each spread is made to have a distinct character
within a continuous style used throughout the book. Certain
spreads have high contrast areas or an overwhelming eect, while
others are created on mid-tones; to preserve the academic theory
o environmental painting. The fnal spreads were combined using
Adobe Indesign, where I also added the typography.
This project was a wonderul experience; I not only increased my
technical knowledge o the sotware, but developed new ways o
discovering innovative solutions to design challenges. I would like tothank certain classmates who oered their critique and eedback. I
would also like to extend special gratitude or my design proessor
who presented us with the opportunity to work on this project and
was available or support and reerence.
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