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 […]
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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 […]
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Roy Caussy: SMOKELIFE III
It’s been a long time since Roy Caussy— a NSCAD grad and now Toronto-based artist—has been back in Halifax, which might be why he wants to have dinner with you this Saturday night. Thanks to Nocturne, he’s bringing us SMOKELIFE III, an interactive project that he originally presented in 2011, and again last year for Hamilton’s […]
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Brendan Fernandes: Still Life
Sackville Landing Zone 2, exhibit 200 www.brendanfernandes.ca Brendan Fernandes is a multi-disciplinary artist with a downright unique perspective on movement and identity–it’s no wonder he’s preoccupied by notions of bodies, in motion and at rest. Fernandes was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to a Goan, Indian family and moved to Toronto in 1989. These days, he […]
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Henri Fabergé: Team Citizen
Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street Zone 4, exhibit 401 www.henri-faberge.com Team Citizen wants you! Henri Fabergé and his crew are planning an open-source political party game and you’re invited to attend. Team Citizen wants to destabilize the status quo and affect positive change. “We are inspired by the failing institutions currently oppressing us all,” […]
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Jeremy Tsang: 雙喜樓 Double Happiness Dim Sum Restaurant
Garrison Place, next door to 1526 Dresden Row Zone 3, exhibit 302 www.t-sang.com Try to picture the alleyway next to 1526 Dresden Row for a minute. You probably can’t, because it normally isn’t used for anything—it’s one of those shadowy spaces you forget exists. NSCAD grad and Toronto-based photographer Jeremy Tsang is back in Halifax […]
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Liliona Quarmyne: Inside-Outside: the Dance of the Box
Halifax waterfront near Salter Zone 2, exhibit number 203 www.lilionaq.com Grab a sweater and jeté your way to the waterfront near the corner of Lower Water and Salter to Liliona Quarmyne’s Inside- Outside: the Dance of the Box. Quarmyne presents an interactive dance piece that promises a fun and engaging communal experience. Quarmyne says her piece […]
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Nocturne star James Luna: Ishi: The Archive Performance
Video screening, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Windsor Foundation Theatre, 1723 Hollis Street Live performance, 7pm Mi’kmaq Native Friendship Centre Zone 1, exhibit 100 Artist talk Thu, Oct 16 at NSCAD Bell Auditorium, 5163 Duke Street, 6:30pm www.jamesluna.com Acclaimed artist James Luna’s Ishi: The Archive Performance makes its Canadian premiere at this year’s Nocturne, and […]
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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 […]