This past weekend was Toronto’s second annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. From 7:03 p.m. to sunrise, hundreds of thousands of Torontonians swarmed the streets of Downtown Toronto. The event, described as “a free all-night contemporary art thing,” drew in a crowd of 425,000 in 2006, its inaugural year.
This year, with 195 installations, extended TTC service, ridiculous line-ups, and crowds in the wee hours of the morning, many are predicting attendance numbers that will exceed last year's.
This year, for the first time, Ryerson University presented Light Up the Night as part of Nuit Blanche. The exhibition featured works by Ryerson students, faculty and alumni.
RyersOnline was at all three of Ryerson’s venues: Heaslip House/Devonian Lake, CAMERA on Queen St. W., and the Gladstone Art Bar, also on Queen St. W.
Take a look at some of the things RyersOnline saw and heard:
Heaslip House/Devonian Lake
Ode to the Porcelain Gods: created by faculty members from the School of Interior Design, and the Theatre School.
Go Down Burning and My Mother At Prayer: original pieces developed by students at Ryerson’s Theatre School.
Steps to Water: by Priyanka Bista, School of Architecture. This piece is a student’s architectural response to Dundas Square.
Ryerson's School of Fashion, various design creations from students.
Road Thang: an interactive game designed by Orest Szopiak, School of Image Arts. The game allows the player to act out their truck driver fantasies as they deliver packages across North America.
Hyperbound: an interactive game designed by Michael Iantorno, School of Image Arts. This game is about an amnesiac lost in a world in which they don’t remember anything.
Horace: by Vanessa Leggett, School of Image Arts. This piece uses sound and images to examine how our family lives are constructed of memories.
SSDE: students and faculty from the School of Image Arts, and the Theatre School assembled a multi-channel film and video installation portraying 9:30 p.m. on September 28, 2006, as perceived by 19 different artists.
CAMERA (1028 Queen St. W.)
Films (School of Image Arts):
R. Bruce Elder, Michael Snow (interviews with artists): a co-production between Fréderic Papon (le Fresnoy) and Pierre Tremblay (Ryerson, School of Image Arts), supported by the Consulate General of France in Toronto.
4C: directed by Angela Joosse, a student in Communication and Culture, a joint program between York University and Ryerson.
Echo: directed by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, a student in Communication and Culture, a joint program between York University and Ryerson.
Outside Sarajevo: directed by Ajilal Odobasic, a student in Communication and Culture, a joint program between York University and Ryerson.
Paricutin: directed by Ericka Loic, a student in Communication and Culture, a joint program between York University and Ryerson.
Pulsions: directed by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, a student in Communication and Culture, a joint program between York University and Ryerson.
Shapes Eat Shapes: directed by Angela Joosse, a student in Communication and Culture, a joint program between York University and Ryerson.
Song of the Firefly: directed by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, a student in Communication and Culture, a joint program between York University and Ryerson.
Photography (School of Image Arts):
When Brothers Fight (The Gaza Strip): photographs by Dominic Nahr, School of Image Arts.
The American Civil Rights Movement: Ryerson’s Black Star Historical Black and White Photography Collection.
Gladstone Art Bar (1214 Queen St. W.)
Artwork (School of Image Arts):
Exodus: The Ten Plagues: artwork by Talia Shipman.
pEOPLE oF tHE cOI: artwork by Daniel Garcia.
Films (School of Image Arts):
Apples and Oranges: produced and directed by Darrell Faria.
The Astounding Alfonzo: directed by Michael Pierro, produced by Kevin Krikst.
Bill Bites People: directed by William Allinson, produced by Kyle Wilson.
Cityline Blues: Sights & Sounds: produced and directed by Judith Clancy.
Dancing Shoes: directed and produced by Megan Mills.
Even With The Thunder Gone: directed by Katie Hawrysh, produced by Yazzad Rabadi.
In Thee Out Never: produced and directed by Jessie Oliver-Laird.
Life in the Shadows: produced and directed by Jessie Oliver-Laird.
The Nastiworths: directed by Kristina Durst, produced by Jessica Thom.
Pierre La Rock: directed by Mary Gerretsen, produced by Kyle Wilson.
Polycotten and the Catholic Girl: directed by Henry Li (G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education).
Smokestack: directed by Dylan Spencer, produced by Yim Hung Kung and Jessamyn Horsman.
Storm: directed by Christina Rennick (G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education).
Too Shane: Christina Rennick (G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education).
Traumrauber: directed by Jennifer Kassabian, produced by Darrell Faria.
Tweed Dobbs: directed by Stephen Crosby, produced by Razvan Anton.
Upside-Down Girl: directed by James Vandewater, produced by Kevin Krikst.
113%: directed by Marayna Dickinson, produced by Kevin Krikst.
What else did RyersOnline see and hear around Downtown Toronto?
- Off the Wall at CAMH
- Night Light 2 at The Drake Hotel
Check out RyersOnline and The Ryersonian's Nuit Blanche photo galleries.
