Best of Toronto Nuit Blanche 2009
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Nuit Blanche is a fantastic event for the art lover, but much like TIFF, it requires preparation. And that can be a daunting task. We’ll make it simple for you, courtesy of Martini Boys.
This year’s Nuit Blanche is scheduled for Saturday night, October 3rd. They have even made an iPhone app, Night Nav. It will be rather cold with 9C and 5 mm of rain. Of all the great things worth watching, we strongly suggest you start with the Vodka Pool, listed last, before it goes away. If the weather is warm, the alcohol will evaporate quickly; if it’s cold, it might disappear through different means 
 Jeff Koons' 50-foot mirrored stainless-steel rabbit balloon @ Eaton’s Centre |
 In a recreation of the opening scene of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Shaun "El Conquistador" Leonardo (the artist) fights in Battle Royal with 20 wrestlers and blindfolded members of the audience @ Coach Terminal |
 The Other Gallery's Paul Butler has invited 30 artists to ask another person to describe their reaction to a work of art @ Various Venues |
 Ontario/Germany-based artist Gordon Monahan turned a concert hall upside down, with the audience on the stage @ Massey Hall |
 Artists will paint with light using a device called bombIR (infrared LED). ‘30s Agitprop + graffiti @ 518 Bay Street |
 Susan Burpee will show a 12h dance based on Simon Critchley's The Book of Dead Philosophers. 24 dancers will perform & 200 philosophers will die @ CourtH |
 D.A. Therrien's piece suspends four 7m sq alpha-numeric lamps that will randomly display characters between the two towers @ Toronto City Hall. |
 Fire and Sausage imagines a post-apocalyptic world in which we have returned to our long-lost altruism. You will congregate around a fire and bask in the warmth of Jamie Kennedy's sausage  @ Liberty Village |
 The Sight of Sound has several instalments - in a piece called Urban Echo, audiences can text and twitter messages onto the front of the building, before exploding and scattering @ The Drake Hotel |
 "Liquor and liquidity bear more than passing associations to banks and money. Intoxicating, like the euphoria of riches; evaporating, like the vanishing of investments during economic downturns." Vodka Pool @ Commerce Court West by DAN MIHALTIANU |
A few of the works of art we found in the directory (nb) remind us of Mickey Rooney’s rant re: modern art. Find it in “China’s Andy Rooney..” 
Sources / More info: nb, iphone-nb, nb-mb, wiki-nb, nb-dan-mihaltianu, dm-artfacts, yt
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