Participate with live performance, film projections, multi-media art, sculpture, painting, ceramics, couture, a massive LED light maze and more.
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]]>To mark Earth day 2021 and in the midst of the ongoing pandemic, please enjoy some images from 2019’s Nuit Blanche Toronto installation “Plastiche Gardens”, which was featured as part of the One Path artist collective at the Spadina Museum grounds. Stay tuned on further updates for Nuit Blanche resuming in 2022, which will be back bigger and better than ever at the Spadina Museum.
Artist Statement
Single-use plastic products are seeping into every facet of the natural world: our water, the soil, in animals and plant life. This whimsically disturbing wonderland ominously imagines a future where the line between the natural and the artificial has been erased.
Most sources indicate that less than 10% of all plastic products created worldwide are ever recycled; roughly one-million plastic bottles are purchased every minute. That amounts to 470 billion bottles ending up in landfills, waterways and who knows where else each year. Sourced and created from post-consumer plastic bottles, Plastiche Gardens represents the ramification of our single-use plastics addiction and the irreparable impact on the environment. Remaining on our current trajectory, the “Midas touch” of a once-thought miracle material is fast becoming our physical reality, from plant roots to our intestines.
When we choose an action, we determine the outcome, and convenience has consequences. If you can’t re-use it, refuse it. Be part of the solution, not part of the pollution.
Here are 10 reasons to refuse single-use plastics:
The One Path Collective’ is the accumulation of the many choices one has in life but ultimately the ‘one path’ we end up taking. Our exhibits display some of the paths we have taken in the art created by the artists who have chosen to create these paths with us.
Located at the historic Spadina Museum grounds on the Davenport bluffs, 285 Spadina Road, the collective’s theme will encourage participating in crafting high art with live performances, couture, video sculpture, light installations and more created with upcycled materials. Stay tuned for more updates as the big night approaches…
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How We Live In Cities at the BIG on Bloor Festival offers arts, culture and urban ecology workshops. The 3-hour-long relay projects provide hands-on opportunities to participate in interactive, multi-disciplinary events that explore ways to animate, enhance and improve the experience of living in cities – each encouraging garden-making.
How We Live In Cities is a feature event for the BIG on Bloor Festival of Arts and Culture, taking place from 1:00 PM- 7:00 PM on Saturday, July 22, and from 12:00 PM-6:00 PM on Sunday, July 23, 2017, at car-free Bloor Street between Lansdowne Ave and Dufferin Street, with up to 100,000 people attending. How We Live In Cities Hub is located just West of Dufferin Ave. on the South side of Bloor Street, in front of the Tennis Courts.
Eric will provide instruction and assist with the building and installation of hanging solar lights and wind catchers, constructed from recycled materials. Eric’s regenerative Sun Lights demonstrate the use of recycled plastic water bottles made luminescent by solar LED technology. This workshop will feature creation demonstrations, and opportunities for all ages to help make sculptures for gardens.
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Click the link to the full article: http://www.azuremagazine.com/article/behind-scenes-look-2017-az-awards-gala/
The chandeliers, by Eric Charron
Toronto architect Eric Charron reworks recycled plastic bottles into striking light fixtures, furniture and artworks. Since 2012, he has successfully diverted over 2000 plastic bottles from landfill to live-on in new, useful art forms.
After discovering his works at a local art exhibition (Place and Placement at Galleria Mall), Azure asked Charron to create custom chandeliers for the 2017 gala. He came back with seven sculptural fixtures – four that measured nearly a metre in diameter and three smaller iterations – made from bottles, wire armature and reused packing foam, and lit with LED bulbs. The lights were suspended over party-goers in the Brick Works’ CRH Gallery.
]]>The event was attended by local and international stars from the worlds of architecture and design. Seventy projects, in 20 different categories were handed out in a ceremony led by Canadian television veteran Denise Donlon. The guest of honour, renowned Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas, kicked things off with a special address.
This was upcycledXD’s first collaboration for an awards gala as well as premiere of 4 original chandeliers that were hung along the perimeter of the lounge. They are build 3 feet in diameter of clear, re-purposed plastic bottles, wire armature and re-used packing foam lit with LED bulbs.
A special call-out was given to Eric Charron from upcycledXD Design in recognition for his contribution to the event during the preamble to the ceremony along with the other Gala Partners: essent’ial, The Consulate General of Italy – Toronto, Frontier design, Istituto Italiano Di Cultura Toronto, the Lowe-Martin Group, audi, revelateur studio, stratus and the Drake Hotel among others.
Frontier Design provided the backdrop to the main stage as well as the separation screen between the awards ceremony space and the lounge using self-assembling cardboard frames. They were a perfect backdrop highlight in red to the night’s events.
Many thanks to Azure Magazine’s Editorial Director, Nelda Rodger and Marketing Manager, Mahasti Eslahjou for engaging upcycledXD to be a part of their celebration and to Paddy Harrington from Frontier for his collaboration in co-producing the design for this year’s awards gala.
You can find the full Azure Magazine Blog post of the event at http://www.azuremagazine.com/article/scenes-from-the-2017-az-awards-gala/
]]>The focus of the discussion was towards a challenge posted to the OpenIDEO website – The Circular Design Challenge, How might we get products to people without generating plastic waste? The intriguing points from the discussion were posted to the OpenIDEO site on June 7, 2017. Please see the link below for the full article.
Sustainability CoLAB: http://sustainabilitycolab.org/
]]>See the article below or follow the link: https://nowtoronto.com/news/beyond-galleria-mall/
Civic Studies – Host of Place and Placement: http://civicstudies.ca/
Upcoming event at BIG on Bloor, July 22-23, 2017 featuring How we Live in Cities event hub: http://bigonbloorfestival.com/about/HowWeLiveInCities/
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