Nuit Blanche Devereaux, 2009

Saturday May 30th, 2009
Happening in various locations in Toronto's West end
PWYC
Hosted by Victoria Cheong & Allison Peacock.
Bring a blanket, a cooler with wheels, some friends and enjoy the amazing performances/screenings/awesomeness by:

LAURA MCCOY, performance
Straight up the Pipe
Trinity Bellwoods Park (various spots)
2:00- 3:00pm
20 min x 3 locations within the park

ZOJA SMUTNY, site-specific performance
Intersection
Intersection at Queen and Brock
3:30, 4:15, 5:00 pm
20 minute performance repeated x 3
performers: Guntar Kravis, Zoja Smutny, Carlos González-Vio

ALICIA GRANT & CARA SPOONER, dance
Dance performance to be viewed from a distance
alley adjacent to the Public Butter (1290 Queen St. West)
4:00-4:20pm

DAVIDA NEMEROFF, slideshow
Playing with Fur
45 Fennings st. backyard - enter through back laneway that runs off Humbert between Fennings and Brookfield
4:45- 5:45pm
5 minutes slideshow will loop for an hour

DANIELA GESUNDHEIT w. Luxury Pond & Isla Craig
Little Portugal’s Storefronts Sing the Hits
Luckily Cafe 229 Ossington
5:15-6:15 pm
2 half-hour sets

LINDSEY GILLARD & AMY LEARMONTH
A set by The Youngest and an installation in a tree
location: Pierre Elliott Trudeau school- 65 Grace St. just North of Dundas
6:30- 7:15

UP DARLING 5: dances by Megan English, Barb Lindenberg, Aimee Dawn Robinson
3 short pieces by Megan English
"Through Glass and Water "by Barb Lindenberg
improvisation by Aimee Dawn Robinson
Trinity Bellwoods Park (Near the NorthWest edge of the ravine, but not in the ravine)
7:30- 8:30pm

IRIS FRASER (featuring Adrienne Kammerer, Keith Jones & mystery man)
Ladies Night at the Concession Stand
Two new videos screening with affordable refreshments (snack and beverage = sandwiches and cider)
location: Backyard at 951 Dundas - to be entered via the laneway at the bottom of Grace/ top of Trinity Bellwoods
8:45- 9:45pm

YUULA & XENIA BENIVOLSKI, video & Installation
OMER
location: charles G. Park, small parkette beside 56 Wright Ave. (near Sorauren)
10:20- 11:20
20 minute video loop

JOYCE LAU, melting projection/ installation
location: 25 Marion st. front porch
11:30 - 12:30am

MISHA BOWER
Biography of a Dozen Drinkers (part one)
video
location: 25 Marion st. Backyard
12:15- 12:45am
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SOME ARTIST BIOs

Laura McCoy
laura mcCoy is a sometimes performance artist who also self-publishes her drawings and comics and currently lives and works in toronto. Recently she co-founded (with jesjit gill) an online store for zines called mishmish.ca.


Yuula Benivolski
Born in 1980 in Moscow USSR, grew up in Northern Israel and currently live and work between Toronto and Montreal.
I work with photographs, projection, video and installation. I'm interested in migration, tradition and ritual, comfort, acclimatization and survival, or stories and details from my childhood that shaped my views on important stuff like sex and death or any other transformative events.

Davida Nemeroff
Davida Nemeroff is a Canadian artist working in Los Angeles California. She holds a BFA in Photographic Studies from Ryerson University (2004) and a MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University (2009.) Nemeroff’s work is an ongoing investigation of the frame. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, The United States, Germany and South Korea.
She is the director of the nocturnal platform Night Gallery in Los Angeles.
Davida Nemeroff is represented by Annie Wharton Los Angeles in the U.S. and by Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects in Canada.

Alicia Grant
Alicia Grant is a recent graduate from York University’s dance program. Since then she has danced at TransformationDanse (Montreal), EDAM (Vancouver), ImPulsTanz (Vienna) and LaborGras (Berlin). She collaborated on The Residents, a dance/video installation at Casa Loma that was voted #1 Greatest Hit of Nuit Blanche by the Toronto Star. In June, Alicia will premiere the new work Rest or Rant at the Festival of New Dance (St. John’s) in collaboration with Cara Spooner.

Joyce Lau
Joyce Lau is a photo-based artist from Toronto. She is a graduate from Ryerson University’s Image Arts Photography studies program.
Lau’s fascination with iconography is prevalent in all her work. Although humour-driven, Lau’s works are highly pensive and curious renderings of what is often considered “common knowledge.” Consistently themed around artifice, perceived ideas and expectations, and guilt, her works are cynical expressions about mass production and “what-ifs.” Interaction between the viewer and the work is crucial. Whether by size, medium, or mechanism, Lau’s work entices viewers to touch, examine, and to participate.

Adrienne Kammerer
Hailing from the suburban cultural epicenter of Burlington, Ontario. Adrienne was born in 1985. She is a self-taught art school dropout currently residing in Toronto