LUMINATO – great art installations that engage the public making the audience part of the art.
This collection of images is from last year’s Luminato exhibit Soon is Now with Canadian artist Corno.
Corno transformed Airship37 in Toronto’s Distillery District with an intense shock of colour that felt like a crayon box had exploded. Fun, random, spontaneous and indicative of the unexpected you can always expect to find with Luminato.
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Image from Luminato.
MAI – Prototype
21st Century Startist Marina Abramović has landed in our city.
“MAI will be the largest expression of what the artist calls the Marina Abramovic Method. Across a series of interlocking pavilions, audience members are guided through exercises and experiences based on Abramovic’s past work. Rather than creating the performance, Abramovic empowers the audience to craft their own experience, as participants don white lab coats and headphones, and disconnect from the outside world for approximately two hours.” More here on Luminato’s website…
Image from Luminato.
STOCKPILE
Ok. This sounds like fun!
“An interactive performance spectacle in the heart of Toronto’s financial district. Come one, come all to a life-sized arcade-style claw machine filled with useful objects donated by the community along with special surprises. As the artists themselves become the claw, see if you can manipulate them into delivering the prize you desire while contemplating this carnivalesque exchange of value and examining what winning and losing means to the collective.” More here on Luminato’s website…
Image from Luminato.
One Thousand Speculations
& this just sounds crazy!
“The largest mirror ball in the world will make Toronto dazzle and spin in its thousands of reflections for the duration of the Luminato Festival. I don’t think that any Torontonian will have seen David Pecaut Square in this kind of light. It will be sexy, seductive, exhilarating and will amaze anyone from 4 to 104 years old.” More here on Luminato’s website…
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Images of Luminato 2012 Corno’s Soon is Now by Leah Snyder for Mixed Bag Mag.