Professor Adrian Blackwell has collaborated with spmb_projects of Winnipeg to design the architectural environment for Daniel Lanois’ Later that Night at the Drive In; and his Model for a public space [speaker], exhibited in Toronto’s inaugural Nuit Blanche in 2006, is featured in Some Enchanted Evenings: A Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 5th Year Retrospective Exhibition.

Nuit Blanche is Toronto's annual sunset to sunrise celebration of contemporary art.

Later that Night at the Drive In

Projection and sound field

Nathan Phillips Square

Designed by: spmb_Blackwell (Karen Shanski, Eduardo Aquino, Adrian Blackwell, with Max Berg & Mohammed Soroor)

Designed as the spatial and visual environment for Daniel Lanois’ Nuit Blanche performance, the project deconstructs a single piece of music by dispersing different channels across the square. Two intertwined networks together form a field: a projection network made of a series of horizontal, up, and down “projectors” on which video images are cast, and a sound network consisting of a series of speaker towers, each tied to one of 24 different tracks of a single composition. Roughly in the center of the square the sunken studio allows visitors to see the performers up close and their interactions in plan through a mirror that hangs above the stage.

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Some Enchanted Evenings

A Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 5th Year Retrospective Exhibition

Curated by Fern Bayer

September 20 to October 3, 2010

Scotia Plaza, 40 King Street West, East Lobby

Four enchanted evenings, each so different, so appealing.

Selected artworks by artists from Canada and around the world –video art, site-specific installations, sculpture, painting, multi-media performative work – that galvanized the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche audience over the last four years are represented in an archival/documentary exhibition.

Sited at Scotia Plaza, these works are highlighted by still and video photography, stories and tales, props and costumes, original drawings and maquettes. The exhibition also investigates some of the creative processes, from artists’ initial submissions to the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche curatorial team and onwards through the various stages an artwork undergoes between conception and realization.

The retrospective unfolds in 2006 when Scotiabank and hundreds of thousands of Torontonians embraced the City’s initial dream: when from dusk until dawn, darkness fades from the skies and the city is infused with the illumination of some of the world’s finest visual artists at work. Through Herculean efforts Scotiabank Nuit Blanche has now become one of the most anticipated events in Toronto’s annual cultural calendar.

http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/retrospectiveExhibition.shtml