Nocturne applications will now include a series of optional self-identification questions about race, gender and religion, as a direct result of discourse about the gap in representation and visibility of Black, Indigenous and Persons of Colour within the local visual arts community. Kelly Markovich, the programming director for October 14’s Nocturne festival, says this year […]
Nocturne 2017
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A Nocturne 2017 round-up
Keeping with this year’s “vanish” theme, the art from Saturday night has left the city streets. Thankfully, we have Instagram to keep the memories alive. Check out highlights from Nocturne’s 10th anniversary below. A post shared by Benjamin Lemphers (@blemphers) on Oct 15, 2017 at 8:36am PDT A post shared by Laura Selenzi (@lauraselenzi) on […]
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Prism
Exhibit 411, Northwood, 2615 Northwood Terrace “A lot of the work I do is movement-based,” says Alexis Milligan, the choreographer, actor, director and creator of Transitus, a theatre company that aims to explore how art is used as a communication tool. “Stillness, silence: How do we find those places where communications begin?” For Nocturne Milligan […]
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Watch Us Vanish
Exhibit 315, Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, 1096 Marginal Road The average right whale weighs between 54 and 72 tonnes; at Nocturne you’ll be given a pound of clay to make your own. It’s not much, but it’s what Andrea Puszkar and Marla Benton landed on as a tribute to the endangered mammals […]
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Long and White, ‘the road twists like a snake toward the far-off blue places’
Exhibit 303, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, 1675 Lower Water Street In Long and White, ‘The road twists like a snake toward the far-off blue places’, artist Sarah Burwash’s animation takes us down a strange and looping path, causing us to wonder, “Have I been here before?” Burwash borrows the title from the autobiographical writings […]
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Toqolu’kwetijik
Exhibit 108, Public Gardens 5665 Spring Garden Road With this year’s group of anchor artists all working to activate the Public Gardens, Ursula Johnson and collaborators will be kicking up dust along the gravel paths encircling Griffin Pond. These clear paths, strict rules and enforced designated sitting areas that make up the Public Gardens are known […]
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Pushback
Exhibit 105, Public Gardens, 5665 Spring Garden Road The wrought-iron gates of Halifax’s Public Gardens are an icon in the city’s landscape, but for Nocturne anchor artist Habiba El-Sayed, they also stand as a fruitful metaphor for decolonization. Throughout the night, El-Sayed will push hundreds of pounds of clay back and forth through the wrought-iron […]
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Trophy
Exhibit 500, Ferry Terminal Park, 88 Alderney Drive, Dartmouth We typically understand a trophy to be something awarded with success, something you collect with an achievement or milestone, but for the organizers and participants of Trophy, these milestones may take less positive, but equally as important forms. In a pop-up tent city, 15 storytellers sit […]
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Nocturne 2017: Shimmer and shine
On Saturday, October 14, the 10th annual Nocturne: Art at Night casts its light across Halifax and Dartmouth for an evening of innovative, immersive, interactive installations. Featuring over 100 exhibitions across five zones, you’ve got just six hours on Saturday to soak up all the culture you can. This year’s theme is vanish—“an act of […]
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Striving for Light-Based Connections
Exhibit 203, NSCAD Academy Building, 5163 Duke street and Citadel Hill A spotlight may bring particularly theatric or cinematic scenes to mind: Bright movie lights or a single beam illuminating a soloist on stage. Alternatively, a beacon can bring to mind images of distress: A bat signal, or a lighthouse. Mark Hines’ installation Striving for […]
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Revisionist Landscapes: Luminary Forestation
Exhibit 136, Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street In this interactive piece, viewers are invited to assist in reconstructing a forest by travelling the city with paper lanterns. The ecosystem of an Acadian forest is a unique combination of evergreens such as red and white spruce, as well as deciduous trees like sugar maple […]
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Wait Outside with Your Necklaces On
Exhibit 117, Public Gardens, 5665 Spring Garden Road A decade ago, Martha Cooley was mugged in the city. A few years back she made a short super-8 film called Wait Outside with Your Necklaces On about that time. “I wanted to transpose that experience—it’s taken me 10 years to think about it, and what the […]