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Nuit Blanche: Independent projects exhibition

Mike Pereira and Brandon Gibson-DeGroote with Wavelength Music

RAVETAPES: AN INTERGALACTIC. INTERACTIVE. DANCE MUSIC EXPERIENCE.

The Garrison (1197 Dundas West) 

Nostalgic for the underground raves of the 80s and 90s? Look no further than the Garrison, where Perreira and Gibson-Degroote transform the beloved music venue into a classic illegal warehouse party complete with old-school tracks, neon flyers and, of course, whistles and glow sticks. Stick around long enough and you might get invited to a secret after-party held at a location you only get by calling a secret hotline number. DJ

Jamii & CORPUS 

QUEENS OF THE ESPLANADE

David Crombie Park (Frederick and the Esplanade) 

St. Lawrence neighbourhood org Jamii partners with CORPUS, a dance troupe with an absurdist bent, to present this camp-out with a group of perplexed aristocrats unaccustomed to roughing it. The work by CORPUS’s Isorine Marc, David Danzon and Carolin Lindner extrapolates from their recent Camping Royale performance. FS

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Diaspora Dialogues 

THE WOMEN ON THE WALL

Metropolitan United Church (56 Queen East) 

The local org that mentors emerging writers and artists and builds bridges between communities fills the downtown church with recorded voices of aboriginal people affected by the continuing epidemic of murders and disappearances of First Nation women. Some of the speakers featured will be on site, and you can affirm your commitment to ending violence against women by tying a red ribbon to a tree outside. FS

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Anchi Lin

I, PAVE 

Bata Shoe Museum (327 Bloor West)

The Vancouver-based performance artist, who explores the intersection of her Asian background with contemporary art – which she sees as European-influenced – uses pebbles she’s collected since immigrating to Canada to construct a foot massage pavement like those in found in parks in her native Taiwan. Walking on it, you experience healing pain and pleasure. FS

Woodland Cultural Centre

WALKING TOGETHER 

Mackenzie House (82 Bond)

Indigenous youth from Brantford under the direction of the Woodland Cultural Centre’s Lorrie Gallant and Six Nations artist Serene Potter put together this outdoor projection of images and words documenting residential school the Mohawk Institute. Walking Together shares stories of survivors and honours those children who didn’t survive. The school’s building now houses the Woodland Cultural Centre. FS

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Toronto Fringe

MEMORY ALLEY 

Honest Ed’s Alley at (581 Bloor West)

Three pop-up sheds, each large enough for only one to five Nuit Blanchers, house extremely – if not uncomfortably – intimate theatrical performances that address the precarious nature of memory and narrative. Audience members (or member) watch the players attack this thorny philosophical and theatrical problem through a multitude of genres and performance styles. DJ 

Emilie Gervais 

INFORMATION BEHAVIORS

The Drake Hotel (1150 Queen West) 

Gervais’s projection transforms the Drake’s famous facade into a constantly shifting polymorphous body. Addressing both our obsessive body imaging and our constantly changing relationship to information, the artist uses GIFs, animations and screen captures to reflect how diverse and bizarre our concept of the self has become. DJ

Rad Sandwich Studios 

SPACEBRO JUSTICE ROCKET

TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King West) 

Louis Sciannamblo and Nick Kormek of Montreal’s Rad Sandwich Studios premiere this new rhythm battle game, where two players control their characters (two spacefaring law enforcers) with fist-pounds, high-fives and elbow bumps. All to take down an evil Robo-baboon, of course. DJ

Project Creative Users 

CRIP INTERIORS

Artscape Youngplace (180 Shaw) 

This six-person collective returns to Nuit Blanche for a second year with experiential installations that shake up our preconceptions of what it’s like to live with disabilities, madness and chronic illness. Playing with the inclusive design term “user” and reclaiming the pejorative “crip,” the group members make art that furthers the goals of the disability justice movement.     FS

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Hygienic Dress League Corporation 

MEMORY BRANDING

Scadding Court Community Centre, 707 Dundas West (south walkway): 

Holograms have been with us since Princess Leia made her pleas in the first Star Wars film. Now you can see life-sized holograms projected into smoke, part of the quasi-fictitious promotional campaign by the Hygenic Dress League Corporation, founded by Detroit husband and wife Steve and Dorota Coy. What are they promoting? Who knows? But holograms are really cool. DJ

Follow NOW on Twitter all nuit long: NOW writers are set to dive into the all-night art party and will be reporting on all the best and the worst of the night – as it happens  

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