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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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 […]
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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 […]
