Protest is the name of the game at this year’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, or at least a principle underlying theme. Curators of the event checked into the Drake Hotel yesterday evening for a Nuit Talks panel addressing the subject at the heart of this Saturday’s “all night art thing,” taking over downtown streets beginning at 7 pm. Curators (above from left) Candice Hopkins, Shirley Madill and Nicholas Brown each detailed the thinking suffusing their NB zones.
As panel moderator, David Liss (Artistic Director and curator of MOCCA) below, observed, “the organizing theme of the core initiatives this year is how artists and curators use contemporary art as a platform to raise awareness, to make a statement, to tell cultural, social and political stories.”
A number of artists participating in the various zones were on hand to explain and discuss their works. The final Nuit Talk takes place Saturday afternoon (October 1) from 3:30 – 5:30 in the City Hall rotunda (100 Queen Street West).
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It was a very interesting night.