“We love for people to experience Nocturne and see what the artists in their community are actually doing,” says Nocturne coordinator Kim Farmer. “They’re creating projects specifically for the night, and most are creating them specifically for this year’s theme, Found and Lost and Found. It’s about our changing city, about the changes that happen […]
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The greatest wheel on earth
After a conversation about Nocturne, spectacle and the role of art over dinner with friends, “the image of a ferris wheel stuck with me,” says NSCAD instructor Anna Sprague. “Perhaps it has something to do with my obsession with the carnivalesque.” For Nocturne, Sprague has commissioned a 68-foot ferris wheel to sit atop Citadel Hill. […]
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Drum Voices is must-see, must-hear
“Drum Voices is a sound piece that transports the drum to a place before time,” says drummer Lindsay Dobbin (Gift From God). On the Dartmouth Common, Dobbin will present a surround-sound installation of a choir of drum parts, to create a full-body experience that is out of this world. Dobbin, who is trained in Shamanic […]
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It’s a Halifax made of shoes
“This was inspired by the Nocturne theme this year, Found and Lost and Found, and the changing of social spaces,” says material-artist Kim Danio. “You know The Economy Shoe Shop? I thought, I just have to make a shoe out of the Shoe Shop, and it all went from there.” Using recycled and found materials, […]
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Digital Shrine pays heartwarming homeage to the dead
Sharon Stevens’ Digital Shrine—an interactive installation you can experience at the gates of Camp Hill Cemetery—was sparked by her father’s death. When he died 20 years ago, the funeral and service “did not speak to me, did not ‘hold’ me in a way I could relate to,” recalls Stevens. Digital Shrine explores new and old […]
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Taking the grain elevators to dynamic new heights
Veronique Mackenzie, Lukas Pearse and Susan Tooke have been working together under the name Motion Activated for five years. Together, they’re “especially intrigued by integrating technologies and stretching the potentials of time and space,” Mackenzie explains. Their Nocturne piece will project a dancer on the wall of the south end grain elevators, moving amid historic […]