Nuit Blanche Saskatoon 2018
Curator and Project Manager: Nuit Blanche Saskatoon (Sept 29, 2018)
My second year as Curator and Project Manager for Nuit Blanche Saskatoon (the festival's fifth annual event) was the first time the festival had events held over multiple days, with projects at the commercial art fair Art Now and at the University of Saskatchewan the week before. For the main festival, we reduced the number of projects as we moved toward a sustainable level of growth. The main festival featured just under 50 artists creating 22 projects. Attendance was again estimated at 10,000.
For our partnership with the University of Saskatchewan, I worked with artist Andreas Buchwaldt to curate his project Celestial Mundane throughout multiple locations at the University of Saskatchewan Observatory. To our knowledge it was the first project hosted at the observatory and was the start of a continuing partnership between the Physics and Art & Art History departments. It also served as a precursor to Nuit Blanche Eve, a preview night for the main festival hosted throughout the University of Saskatchewan campus and featuring student installations.
SEMBLANCE by Stephanie Kuse. An interactive audio/visual installation by SCKUSE and GLAZ, the viewer was invited to look into a one-way mirror and have their reflections woven into an abstract video composition mixed live.
SEMBLANCE by Stephanie Kuse. An interactive audio/visual installation by SCKUSE and GLAZ, the viewer was invited to look into a one-way mirror and have their reflections woven into an abstract video composition mixed live.
The Door by Paul Magnuson aka The PRGM. A one-of-a-kind, prototype gateway to an augmented reality. Each time you close and reopen the door a different experience awaits, utilizing cameras and custom animation to create an augmented reality.
Never Gonna GIF You Up by Chris Morin. Acting as an interactive photo booth, the installation aimed to bring dancing splashes of colour and frescoes of movement via a larger-than-life GIF-wall.
Never Gonna GIF You Up by Chris Morin. Acting as an interactive photo booth, the installation aimed to bring dancing splashes of colour and frescoes of movement via a larger-than-life GIF-wall.
Tai Chi by the Heritage Wellness Society. Members led a participatory Tai-Chi performance that invited people of all-ages to learn and experience Chinese culture.
4^3 by Laura Payne. Working with dichroic filters that separate and scatter different hues across the visible spectrum of light, not unlike a technique used at CLS known as diffraction, Laura Payne created an art installation which changes depending on the viewer’s physical location.
4^3 by Laura Payne. Working with dichroic filters that separate and scatter different hues across the visible spectrum of light, not unlike a technique used at CLS known as diffraction, Laura Payne created an art installation which changes depending on the viewer’s physical location.
Restitution YXE by Alejandro Romero and Priscilla Wolf. This participatory social intervention symbolically returned the land titles of the City of Saskatoon to First Nations and Métis people as an act of reconciliation.
Indigenous Poets Society. A collective of Plains Cree poets based on Treaty Six Territory, in the city of Saskatoon, they formed out of a need to share their voices, words, struggles and triumphs as Indigenous people from different backgrounds and common histories.
Indigenous Poets Society. A collective of Plains Cree poets based on Treaty Six Territory, in the city of Saskatoon, they formed out of a need to share their voices, words, struggles and triumphs as Indigenous people from different backgrounds and common histories.
Luna Moth (Diurnal Mural) by Cate Francis. A glow-in-the-dark mural consisting of hundreds of small, screen printed images. The prints themselves consist of two layers, one in color ink to provide content during the day, and one glow-in-the-dark that can only be seen at night.