Zone B takes in the part of Toronto once dominated by the British and now composed largely of Chinatown. The Nuit Blanche works in this area honour Toronto's changing diversity by invoking history and crossing geographies.
MIDNIGHT MIRAGE by Vessna Perunovitch, Anne Tanenbaum Gallery School parking lot, 60 McCaul
Serbian food served to an audience of 12.
TRACES by Adad Hannah, Rex Hotel, 194 Queen West
Video remakes the history of the Rex.
IT'S A CLOUD by Brian Cort, Eaton Centre, Yonge-Dundas entrance
Make your own cloud and set it free.
STEAM UP IN THE STEAM BANYA Steam Whistle Brewing, 225 Bremner
Russian videos, music and a sauna in a tent.
Hub B: Car-free Drive-In (100 McCaul) BravoFACT films. Derek Besant (painting).
aca gallery (183 Queen E) Art Can Change The World group show.
alan rutherford's studio (11A Baldwin) Alan Rutherford (painting).
alumnae theatre (70 Berkeley) Shelagh Stevenson: Memory Of Water and other plays.
Anne Tanenbaum Gallery School (60 McCaul, parking lot ) Vessna Perunovich: Midnight Mirage (performance, video).
art gallery of ontario (317 Dundas W) End Of The Party Party (performance, video).
art square gallery (334 Dundas W) Césan and Dan Falk (painting).
31 BALDWIN STREET TO BEVERLEY & CECIL STREETS by McKendree KeyBrooklyn-based installation artist Key branches out from her usual MO of filling spaces with bright plastic balls or dividing them with cloth. In this performance, an apartment is packed up (a process visible on video) and its contents transported to the corner of Beverley and Cecil. Then, over the course of the night, the things are moved to another location. Are we our stuff? Does our stuff make a place home?
baldwin street (31 Baldwin to Beverley and Cecil) McKendree Key (peformance).
Bau-Xi Gallery (340 Dundas W) Brian Kipping (painting).
beaver hall (29 McCaul) Group show, live music 8 and 10 pm.
bellevue Square Park (5 Bellevue) Ame Henderson and Public Recordings: Open Field Study (All Together Now) (performance, dance).
bruce mau design (197 Spadina) 1,2,3 (window installation).
cecil street community centre (58 Cecil) Yvonne Ng: Collection (dance, music).
church of the holy trinity (10 Trinity Sq) Natalie Wood: Moko Jumbie Dance (multimedia).
cinematheque ontario (Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas W) Louis Feuillade: Les Vampires (film).
THUNDEREGG ALLEY by Swintak, follow signs from College and Spadina to alleyRiffing on T.O.'s hyperactive gentrification trend, pomo trickster about town Swintak turns an alleyway dumpster into a high-end micro-hotel and spa. For 10 champagne-scented minutes, Nuit Blanchers can enjoy private Vuittonesque luxury where only scrawny freegans and foraging raccoons have gone before. Urban "revitalization" or savvy bait 'n' switch? You (once pampered) decide.
College and Spadina (alley) Swintak: ThunderEgg Alley: A Dumpster Diver's Paradise (performance).
cn tower (301 Front W, pre-register at www.cntower.ca) Wonderful Nuit group show.
craig scott gallery (95 Berkeley) Jorge Martinez Garcia: Under The Volcano (prints, readings).
D'arcy street (6, 35, 39 and 91 D'Arcy) Millie Chen: Watcher (video).
distillery district (55 Mill) Arta Gallery : The Time Machina group show. Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini : Idiot Joy Showland group show. Blue Dot Gallery : Josy Britton (painting). Case Good Warehouse : Inside Out group show. Dance Ontario: Ghostly Apparitions group show. Deaf Culture Centre : Diverse Lives: Deaf Women Artists & Sign Dance, Magic And Mime. Gibsone Jessop : If This Is The Life Why Does It Feel So Good To Die Today? group show. Le Laboratoire d'Art: Share-Labo group show. Marie Josette Wearable Art : Wrapped In Art group show. Thompson Landry : Lea Riviere (painting).
eastern Front (750 Queen E) Connect-ivity group show.
eaton centre (220 Yonge) Brian Cort: It's A Cloud (interactive). Anna Madelska: Balloonscape (installation).
first baptist church (101 Huron) Johanna Billing: Magical World (video).
401 Richmond W Art In The Fall (in the corridors). A Space : Brendan Fernandes and Mona Kamal: (installation). Gallery 44: The Slow Gaze group show (photos). Open Studio : Shameless Promotion (prints). Prefix. Red Head : Insomnia group show. Trinity Square Video : 640 480 Collective. V-Tape : Curatorial Incubator, V.5: What's Up Doc? Adventures In Animation. WARC : Camille Turner (installation). Wynick-Tuck : Dyan Marie and Kelly Mark (multimedia). YYZ : Open All Night group show.
four seasons centre (145 Queen W) A Window On Ballet (photos).
george brown college (200 King E) Sight & Sound group show.
WHERE THERE ARE TREES STANDING IN THE WATER by Hannah Claus, 186 Beverley Continuing her exploration of Aboriginal and Canandian-European identity through beadwork and wallpaper patterns and the iconic form of the house, Montreal-based Claus researches the history of the George Brown House and projects her visual findings through its windows onto the street in a language of light and shadow.
george brown house (186 Beverley) Hannah Claus: Where There Are Trees Standing In The Water (light installation).
grange park (Grange and McCaul) Melissa Shiff: Night Of Awe Dance Party (multimedia). Laurel Woodcock: Wish You Were Here (multimedia).
hang man gallery (756 Queen E) Sit Down group show.
headbones gallery (260 Carlaw) Srdjan Segan and Scott Ellis: Tall Standing Figures and alley installation.
italian cultural institute (136 Beverley) Euronight (film, video).
jewel envy (101 Spadina) Conceptual Jewellery As Communal Art.
kensington Market (btwn College and Dundas, Spadina and Bellevue) Ronnies Local (69 Nassau): Alex vs Alex: The Portrait Party. Michael Bartosik , Heather McLean and Craig Stephens: Assbook. Clay & Paper Theatre: Punch & Judy. Jennifer Delos Reyes and Lori Gordon: Infinite Exchange Gallery. Anthea Foyer: What I Meant To Tell You... Arnold Koroshegyi: Archaeology Of 26-28 Oxford. Renée Lear: storefront performance. Tania Ursomarzo: Urban Textile. Amber Landgraff and Janina Piva: Postcard Project.
moss park (199 Queen E) Art Can Change The World (video), music by Friendly Rich and the Lollipop People , Woodchoppers Association and Samba Punk Sound System .
music gallery (197 John) Darren Copeland: The Theatre Of Diurnal Music (sound).
national film board (150 John) Theo Buchinaskas , Dan Thornhill and Kris Alexander: Blender (interactive).
EVERYBODY LOVES YOU 2 by Daisuke Takeya, at the Rosalie Sharp Pavilion, 115 McCaulAfter arriving in Manhattan, Japanese artist Daisuke Takeya was struck by the ease with which North Americans litter their conversation with the word "love." A common mispronounciation of his name, daisuki, means "I love you" in Japanese. This verbal onslaught of casual and mispronounced love inspired a series of portraits, each of whose titles include "I Love You" and the sitter's name. He's also produced a video in which a hundred people declare their love to the camera as neutrally as possible. Neutrality, however, can be very difficult when you're trying to say those three little words.
OCAD (100 McCaul) Daisuke Takeya: Everybody Loves You 2 (sculpture, video, Rosalie Sharp Pavilion, 115 McCaul). Transformed By Imagination group show.
0'connor gallery (145 Berkeley) Christina Cicko and Geoffrey Person: Time Machine (light installation).
rex hotel (194 Queen W) Adad Hannah: Traces (video).
ryerson University Heaslip House (297 Victoria): Light Up The Night group show. Devonian Square (debate).
st lawrence market (93 Front E) Mike Murphy: Black Night (multimedia).
WHAT WILL YOU DO? by Nina Czegledy, Greg Judelman, Deborah Hession and Daniel Barber, at Simcoe and Queen Environmental art often starts with good intentions, but a focus on producing "stuff" (albeit stuff with a message) can eat up more resources than it saves. This project encourages cellphone users to text their climate-change-fighting actions to a Queen West billboard. Robert Bateman, eat your heart out.
simcoe and queen Nina Czegledy , Greg Judelman , Deborah Hession and Daniel Barber: What Will You Do? (interactive installation).
steam whistle brewing (255 Bremner) Steam UP In The Steam Banya (Russian art and sauna).
textile museum of canada (55 Centre) Allyson Mitchell: Swap Till You Drop (clothing exchange).
WHERE YOU ARE by debashis sinha, throughout Zone BNext to smell, sound often gives us the most powerful sense of time and place. Debashis sinha puts callers in two cities at once: any reveller walking through Zone B need only call 1-888-432-5995 to hear audio art pieces constructed from sounds recorded on the streets of Kolkata , India. Sinha's piece accentuates the odd transpositions of time and space constantly foisted upon us by telecommunications and media. Walk around with both sides of your mind on opposite sides of the planet.
zone b (mobile project accessed by cellphone at 1-888-432-5995) Debashis Sinha: Where You Are.
