Douglas Coupland’s Museum of the Rapture will be one of the works on display at Nuit Blanche / photo courtesy of the artist
Ceal Floyer, Slavoj Žižek, Douglas Coupland and Hadley + Maxwell are among the leading cultural figures to be involved in Toronto’s Nuit Blanche this year. The full Nuit Blanche program, which is to take place on September 29, was announced today by the City of Toronto.
This year’s lineup includes 158 art projects created by more than 500 local, national and international artists.
Floyer, a Berlin-based artist who has exhibited at the 2009 Venice Biennale, among other venues, will be presenting the installation Darkning at Richmond Adelaide Centre. Slovenian philosopher Žižek will join fellow thinkers Arthur Kroker and Brenda Longfellow at City Hall to discuss the ecological and economic issues currently confronting the planet.
Renowned Canadian author and artist Douglas Coupland will be creating a maze of signage and living tableaux that use the religious notion of the Rapture as a departure point to explore of the separation of mind and body. And Vancouver-trained duo Hadley + Maxwell will present a performance/installation of Nirvana roadies perpetually “loading-in” for a “final concert” at the the Elgin Theatre.
Curators for this year’s edition include York University professor Janine Marchessault and OCAD University instructor Michael Prokopow (City Hall); Textile Museum of Canada executive director Shauna McCabe (Zone A, Downtown South/West); former director of Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery Christina Ritchie, now an independent curator based in Toronto (Zone B, Downtown Central/East); and former Power Plant senior curator of programs Helena Reckitt (Downtown East), now an independent curator and critic in London, UK.
