Nuit Blanche 2009 @ Toronto

Who needs Fast (aka Speed) when you’ve got Farmer.

Who needs Jack Rabbit (THE vibrator that gained celebrity status in Sex and the City) when you’ve got Jeff’s Rabbit.

I’m talking about the 4th edition of Nuit Blanche - an annual sunset to sunrise Contemporary Art festival  that will be parading the streets of Toronoto coming 3 October.

Junkies weaning off the white stuff take note of Geoffrey Farmer’s vision-inducing stroboscopic machine which will be installed at the Church of the Holy Trinity. Sniff the irony? You’ll get your daily hallucigenic indulgences at a discounted price = the entrance ticket!

Jeff Koons will also be shepharding his current Rabbit series in addition to installations from other notable artists (via CBC Art News):

“Ghost Chorus — Dirge for Dead Slang, by Toronto’s Katie Bethune-Leaman, a chorus in Larry Sefton park that will sing outmoded slang of the past.

Space Becomes an Instrument: Massey Hall will be strung with long piano strings to be played by live performers while the audience watches from the stage, by Gordon Monahan.

Bill Viola video installation: California video artist will project his work on the Canadian Tire at Bay and Dundas streets.

Monopoly with Real Money: Toronto celebrities, including financiers, will play the board game throughout the night in an installation by Iain Baxter of Windsor, Ont.

Gone Indian: Vancouver artist Rebecca Belmore brings a powwow dancer on a red pickup that will cruise the financial district.

Vodka Pool: A reflective pool of 80-proof vodka by Dan Mihaltianu of Berlin.

10 Scents: Montreal artist Chih-Chien Wang creates a smell installation involving 10 scents from Alice in Wonderland.

Sounding space: Three Toronto artists create a sound installation that reacts to the movements of participants.”

More details at the Nuit Blanche Toronto 2009 website.

Hmm…what’s the post-H1N1 price of a SIN-CAN ticket again?

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 thangdynasty is a work-in-progress maintained by an accidental equity trader whose brief foray into the world of investments turned out… not so brief. Although unmotivated by the senseless pursuit of money in and for itself, she remains sadistically intrigued by the complex anatomy stealthily at work behind the whole spectrum of Markets – Fine Art, Financial, Fish and Fools. A budding art collector and supporter of emerging artists, she slogs to prevent collateral damage to her bank account resulting from occasional manic art buying sprees.

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