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Geoffrey Farmer The Blinking Eyes of Everything 2009 Installation sketch |
6. The Blinking Eyes of Everything by Geoffrey Farmer at Church of the Holy Trinity
Just as Geoffrey Farmer’s gallery installations are winning ever-wider exhibition and acclaim, his Toronto fans get a rare chance to see the artist’s take on a non-white-cube environment—namely, a 17th-century Anglican church. With an organ soundtrack and trippy, hypnotic lighting, The Blinking Eyes of Everything promises a fresh iteration of Farmer’s eerie situational oeuvre.
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Kyohei Sakaguchi BICITYCLE (Bike City) 2009 Installation sketch |
7. Bicitycle by Kyohei Sakaguchi at Lamport Stadium Parking Lot
Japanese artist Kyohei Sakaguchi has won praise for his photographic documentation of homeless architectures in Tokyo, examples of which were exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2006 and at Plug In ICA in 2008. Now, taking the project to the next level, Sakaguchi will assemble a mobile, pedal-powered city out of Toronto’s scraps and secondhand discards.
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Rebecca Belmore View of the Artist and Truck 2009 Courtesy of the artist |
8. Gone Indian by Rebecca Belmore throughout the financial district
Past Canadian Venice rep Rebecca Belmore won many new fans at 2006’s Nuit Blanche with her compelling ice-sculpture tribute to Neil Stonechild. This year, Belmore shines a light in a similar direction, reclaiming the financial district for First Nations people through drumming, performance and spontaneous vocals.
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Santiago Sierra No 2009 Preview image Courtesy of the artist |
9. No by Santiago Sierra at Temperance and Bay Streets
Spain’s Santiago Sierra is one of the world’s most brutal and cold-eyed artists, with works that ably expose the sickening underbelly of everyday life—the buying and selling of human bodies and souls. Few advance details of his Nuit Blanche work are available, but it will likely be intelligently shocking—a brilliant foil to festival-fuelled fun.
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Randy Gledhill and Berenicci Hershorn Randy & Berenicci 2009 Installation sketch |
10. Randy & Berenicci at 80 Lynn Williams Street
The performance works of Randy Gledhill and Berenicci Hershorn were well known across Canada in the 1970s and 80s. For Nuit Blanche 2009, they get a surprise return to the spotlight with a video retrospective that promises to win them awareness in a new generation.
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