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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Stephen Kelly: Open Ended Ensemble
King’s Wharf, The Anchorage, 15 King’s Wharf Zone 5, exhibit 500 www.stephenkelly.ca Ghostly tones emanate from miniature tube guitar amp-looking devices, each trying in their robotic way to hit the same note—matching the hum of a fluorescent light in an eerie automaton choir. Artist, computer programmer and musician Stephen Kelly has created Open Ended Ensemble, […]
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Nocturne by the hour
We won’t pretend that any one person could see all of this year’s Nocturne offerings (although it’s certainly worth trying), and breaking it down by hour seems more manageable. On your way to our featured projects, make pit stops at these pieces of interest 6pm: Before you start, remind yourself to keep an eye out […]
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Get outside for Nocturne 2014
Nocturne: Art at Night has been responsible for some of the most exciting and temporal installations, performances and exhibits our city sees in the run of a calendar year, and it all happens on one night—for free. For its seventh year, artist Eryn Foster selected a group of local and international artists as part of […]
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Agathe Simon: Antarctic Spectrum
1880 Hollis Street Zone 2, exhibit 201 www.agathesimon.com If you’ve never heard of Argentinian explorer Gabriela Conti (1974-2010), it’s likely because she is the work of Parisian artist Agathe Simon’s imagination. But that doesn’t make Conti any less real. “She’s a source of inspiration for me because her all life is about freedom, creation, desire […]
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Ryan Suter and Adriana Kuiper: Night Tweeter (No. 2)
Citadel Hill Zone 3, exhibit 300 www.adrianakuiper.com “There’s the famous scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind in which the humans, in an attempt to communicate with the extra-terrestrials using a combination of flashing coloured lights and single musical notes, try make contact or to communicate,” explains artist Ryan Suter. “This form of communication […]
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Leah Garnett: Drawing on Air
The Nook, 2116 Gottingen Street/King’s Wharf Zone 4, exhibit 400 www.leahgarnett.com The mind always wanders, and Mount Allison professor Leah Garnett’s Drawing on Air has encouraged daydreaming since she began the project in 2002. With a broadcast station at King’s Wharf and a listening room at The Nook, Garnett will read stories that invite drawing […]
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Nocturne it up with Dustin Harvey and Greg Van Slyke
Alderney Landing Market Zone 5, exhibit #503 www.dustinharvey.com Any time I watch an NBA game, I imagine myself at centre court overwhelmed by the thousands of people standing and clapping, just for me. This unreal moment is what Ovation is all about. “My intent was to create the feeling of standing onstage at the end […]
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Vertical City Performance: All Good Things
Prince George Hotel, 1725 Market Street Zone 1, exhibit #101 www.brucewbarton.com/all-good-things “It’s based on a real-life experience of mine, a near-drowning in a lake on Manitoulin Island, where I was pulled from the water by a fisherman, and based on the complex, lingering ripples of that event for me and for my family,” says writer/director […]
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Rebel Girl Halifax: Khy-bar VJs
Khyber Centre for the Arts, 5521 Cornwallis Street Zone 4, exhibit #404 www.rebelgirlhalifax.org Denise Donlon, Erica Ehm and Sook-Yin Lee were my MuchMusic video jockey icons. They were super-cool, they knew everything about rad music and they asked challenging questions about art. Their importance in Canadian pop culture can’t be overstated— I wouldn’t be into music […]
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Becka Barker’s The Hundred-Eyed Satellite
The Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street Zone 3, exhibit number 301 http://wmdp.ca/ Artist and filmmaker Becka Barker has been collecting hundreds of hand-drawn-from-memory maps from Haligonians for weeks, hosting World Map Drawing Parties at libraries and opening up online submissions to increase her hoard. Why, you ask? All will become clear at Barker’s […]
