{"id":144,"date":"2016-10-05T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2023-04-05T19:55:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:55:25","slug":"top-4-nuit-blanche-exhibits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/top-4-nuit-blanche-exhibits","title":{"rendered":"Top 4 Nuit Blanche exhibits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From sunset to sunrise, Nuit Blanche, an all-night contemporary arts festival, lit up Toronto\u2019s downtown core on Saturday with bright and creative displays of art. Listed below are four of the most memorable pieces from the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210120075345im_\/https:\/\/rutvnews1.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/tan_deathofthesun.jpg?w=624&amp;h=419\" alt=\"tan_deathofthesun\" class=\"wp-image-1434\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_64 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/top-4-nuit-blanche-exhibits\/#Photo_credit_Jaclyn_Tansil\" title=\"Photo credit: Jaclyn Tansil\">Photo credit: Jaclyn Tansil<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/top-4-nuit-blanche-exhibits\/#Photo_credit_Mark_McKelvie\" title=\"Photo credit: Mark McKelvie\">Photo credit: Mark McKelvie<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/top-4-nuit-blanche-exhibits\/#Photo_credit_Jaclyn_Tansil-2\" title=\"Photo credit: Jaclyn Tansil\">Photo credit: Jaclyn Tansil<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/top-4-nuit-blanche-exhibits\/#Photo_credit_Mark_McKelvie-2\" title=\"Photo credit: Mark McKelvie\">Photo credit: Mark McKelvie<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_credit_Jaclyn_Tansil\"><\/span>Photo credit: Jaclyn Tansil<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Name: Death of the Sun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artist:&nbsp;<strong>Director X<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: 100 Queen St. W. (City Hall)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director X\u2019s sphere-like sculpture represents the Sun through the various stages of its life cycle. Designed to make the viewer contemplate their own spot in the universe, the orb dwarfs those who stand next to it, boasting a circumference of 45 metres. This exhibit is part of the OBLIVION projects, which according to the curators&nbsp;<strong>Janine Marchessault<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Michael Prokopow<\/strong>&nbsp;is about \u201cdestruction, forgetting, and drowning in the pitch blackness of pure and final absence\u201d as well as \u201cadaptation and unprecedented renewal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210120075345im_\/https:\/\/rutvnews1.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/mist.jpg?w=582&amp;h=436\" alt=\"mist\" class=\"wp-image-1441\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_credit_Mark_McKelvie\"><\/span>Photo credit: Mark McKelvie<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Name: Pneuma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artist:&nbsp;<strong>Floria Sigismondi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: 100 Queen St. W. (Nathan Phillips Square)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also a part of the OBLIVION collection,&nbsp;<em>Pneuma&nbsp;<\/em>uses a combination of projectors and water to display themes of life, death and life after death. The artist, Sigismondi, graduated from OCAD University who says she got the idea from \u201ca walking dream that unlocked something boundless and idyllic from [her] unconscious.\u201d The exhibit looped a video that was accompanied by a continuous shower of water that spurted out onto the sides of concrete, covering spectators that went too close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210120075345im_\/https:\/\/rutvnews1.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/tan_literaturevstraffic.jpg?w=626&amp;h=420\" alt=\"tan_literaturevstraffic\" class=\"wp-image-1449\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_credit_Jaclyn_Tansil-2\"><\/span>Photo credit: Jaclyn Tansil<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Name: Luzinterruptus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artists from Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Hagerman St. and Elizabeth St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assembled with donated books from the Salvation Army,&nbsp;<em>Luzinterruptus&nbsp;<\/em>stretched the span of a whole city street to honour the power of literature. The books had light fixtures placed inside of them that gleamed in the darkness, and visitors who came in the last couple hours of the night were able to take a book home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_credit_Mark_McKelvie-2\"><\/span>Photo credit: Mark McKelvie<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Name: The Merging<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artist:&nbsp;<strong>Nicola Verlato<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: 100 McCaul St. (OCAD University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Description: Verlato\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Merging&nbsp;<\/em>shows the difference between the left brain and the right brain using two prominent Toronto historical figures:&nbsp;<strong>Marshall McLuhan<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Donald Coxeter<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It merges McLuhan\u2019s discipline of social sciences and Coexeter\u2019s discipline of geometry to form a hybrid, connected scene. Inside OCAD was another installation of the same painting, this time with access to virtual reality tools to make the pieces pop even more. Participants could enter into the realm of the painting, exploring the setting in a 3-D space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From sunset to sunrise, Nuit Blanche, an all-night contemporary arts festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rutvnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}