Did you miss Nuit Blanche? It’s not too late to see some of the art that was displayed.
Toronto’s annual overnight art festival wrapped up Sunday morning, but despite this, a selection of projects were extended until Oct. 10, giving visitors a few more days to check them out for free.
The projects involved can be found across the city, with varying hours depending on the installation, with some available during the day and others going until the evening.
Here are the Nuit Blanche projects you can still see this week.
Simile Aria
Location: Old City Hall
Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thurs from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Fri and Sat from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Head to Old City Hall to experience Simile Aria, a sound installation by Maggy Hamel-Metsos that turns the historic Old City Hall building into a giant musical instrument.
The work uses reconstructed organ pipes and industrial air compressors to create an immersive experience inspired by the pipe organ.
Museum of Lost Things
Location: Old City Hall, Library, room 155
Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thurs from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Fri and Sat from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Museum of Lost Things, by Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, is a light-up installation that explores objects that have disappeared from people’s lives.
The artists transform memories of lost, discarded, and used-up objects into sculptures that encourage visitors to think about the stories and memories attached to mundane, everyday things.
UFO
Location: Old City Hall
Hours: Available for viewing daily until Oct. 10; timings not specified
Toronto’s streets get a little more sci-fi with Brandon Vickerd’s UFO.
The large-scale installation depicts a flying saucer that has crashed into a crushed car. The project creates a spectacle inspired by UFO sightings, Cold War imagery and conspiracy theories.
Complete with strobing lights and billowing smoke, the installation appears as if from another time period.
I Miss You: T.Dot Memories
Location: Old City Hall Courtyard
Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thurs from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Fri and Sat from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
I Miss You: T.Dot Memories brings Toronto nostalgia to life, with an illuminated and inflatable art installation by Francesca Nocera, also known as SUN SUN.
The work features illustrations of recognizable, long-gone landmarks in the city, including Honest Ed’s, Sam the Record Man, Ontario Place, and MuchMusic.
It explores the memories people hold of places that have disappeared or changed across the city.
Ephemera: The Art We Didn’t Make
Location: Old City Hall
Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thurs from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Fri and Sat from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Ephemera: The Art We Didn’t Make is another project sticking around after the main Nuit Blanche event that explores ideas around memory, creativity, and the artwork that exists somewhere between an idea and a finished piece.
Through choreography and sound, audiences will encounter traces of creative lives interrupted, deferred, and waiting to be witnessed. Dancers will move through a shifting landscape, while visitors share their reflections and give offerings to the installation.
Avataq Gathering
Location: Chelsea Toronto, 33 Gerrard Street West
Hours: Available for viewing daily until October 10; timings not specified
Avataq Gathering, by Couzyn van Heuvelen, is part of Nuit Blanche’s 20th-anniversary programming. It’s a project that builds on the artist’s exploration of Inuit culture and contemporary sculpture.
It reinterprets traditional Inuit hunting tools through a contemporary lens, especially highlighting a traditional float made from one full sealskin, inflated with air, plugged and tied off.
Blankets (Under) Cover
Location: Nathan Philips Square
Hours: Available for viewing daily until October 10; timings not specified
Artist Shelley Niro’s Blankets (Under) Cover is also available as part of the extended program.
The work is a return from the festival’s 2022 run, and is an installation that showcases 13 stretched point blankets depicting Canada’s complex history with trade, wealth, warmth and illness.
The 13 blankets represent each province and territory, and are decorated with images of beavers, buffalo, moose, and other wildlife that had been decimated through colonial economies.
At the Edge of Remembering
Location: Old City Hall
Hours: Available for viewing daily until October 10; timings not specified
At the Edge of Remembering explores how memories are created, preserved, and experienced.
The installation displays 500 hand-embroidered felt mango leaves and creates a soft landscape for viewers to navigate through, exploring nostalgia and diasporic futures,
The Wishing Boat
Location: North York Centre in the atrium
Hours: Available for viewing daily 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. until Oct. 10
If you’re looking for an interactive installation, The Wishing Boat offers visitors a chance to leave a message.
Created by Negar Pooya, the large-scale origami boat invites people to write wishes, poems and messages on the project’s surface.
The artwork was created for the boat to represent a symbol of hope, migration and belonging.
Deep Reverie
Location: College Park courtyard
Hours: Available for viewing daily from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. until Oct. 10
Deep Reverie is a project that immerses audiences in a glowing dreamscape of UV-reactive tapestries and augmented reality.
The installation looks like a luminous geometric mural from a distance, while up close, each diamond shape reveals a different AI-generated dream of the future.
Networked Growth
Location: Meridian Arts Centre, 5040 Yonge St.
Hours: Daily from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. through Oct. 10
Networked Growth, by Jordan Shaw, is a multimedia installation that features a sculptural tree that has been woven with upcycled Ethernet cables.
Inspired by rug-hooking techniques passed down from Shaw’s grandmother in Cape Breton, the project brings outdated digital infrastructure into the physical world.
Navigating each project
If you’re planning to check out each installation, be sure to use the City of Toronto’s extended projects map before heading out to confirm the installation’s location and hours.
