{"id":35636,"date":"2016-09-28T19:45:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T23:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=35636"},"modified":"2016-10-27T11:57:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T15:57:32","slug":"nuit-blanche-toronto-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=35636","title":{"rendered":"Nuit Blanche Toronto 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/City-Hall-Nuit-Toronto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-30393\" title=\"City Hall Nuit Toronto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/City-Hall-Nuit-Toronto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/City-Hall-Nuit-Toronto.jpg 800w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/City-Hall-Nuit-Toronto-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/City-Hall-Nuit-Toronto-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a><em>Inside Out : Face to Face\u00a0<\/em>by JR at the City Hall, 2015. Photo: Phil Anderson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, October 1, 2016, sunset to sunrise<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Various locations in Toronto<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Free all-night contemporary art event<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For one sleepless night, from sunset to sunrise, the familiar is discarded and Toronto is transformed into an artistic playground for a series of exhilarating contemporary art experiences in unexpected public spaces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibition Projects produced by the City of Toronto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under the direction of four curators, Nuit Blanche Toronto features more than 30 public art projects by local, national and international artists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OBLIVION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Curated by Janine Marchessault and Michael Prokopow, you&#8217;ll find three exhibition projects at Nathan Phillips Square and City Hall.\u00a0OBLIVION is about destruction and forgetting. It is about drowning in the pitch-blackness of pure and final absence. And it is about the possibilities of adaptation and unprecedented renewal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Militant Nostalgia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Curated by Paco Barrag\u00e1n, this exhibition features 10 projects along John Street between Dundas Street and Front Street.\u00a0Militant Nostalgia is a meditation on history and time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And the Transformation Reveals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join curator Camille Hong Xin with 10 projects along Bay Street betwen Dundas Street and Front Street.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facing the Sky<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Curated by Louise D\u00e9ry, this exhibition features 10 projects along the waterfront.\u00a0As &#8216;night-walkers&#8217;, we enter into the vertigo of the nocturnal sky.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Independent Projects produced by Toronto\u2019s art community<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toronto artists, cultural and educational institutions, museums, galleries and neighbourhoods participate in Nuit Blanche Toronto each year by producing their own one-of-a-kind projects that transform the city.<\/p>\n<p>For locations and more information\u00a0please go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nbto.com\/\">https:\/\/nbto.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturday, October 1, 2016, sunset to sunrise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For one sleepless night, from sunset to sunrise, the familiar is discarded and Toronto is transformed into an artistic playground for a series of exhilarating contemporary art experiences in unexpected public spaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=35636\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archive","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35636"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35643,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35636\/revisions\/35643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}