Adrian Blackwell
Adrian Blackwell is an artist and architectural designer based in Toronto. His work concentrates on the
effects of contemporary urbanization at multiple levels.
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Model for a Public Space (speaker), 2006
Social sculpture
[ selected photographs ]
[ video ]
Grange Park (Grange Road and McCaul Street)
Blackwell proposes sculpture as social site. A circular, ramping seating structure, the piece was built
to facilitate conversation between large numbers of people sitting in close proximity to one another. The
structure looked like a crater, or a speaker facing upwards. Through this simple shape it was possible
to sit looking inward towards one another or outward to the surrounding city.
For Nuit Blanche, mps (speaker) was placed in Grange Park as a site for conversations based
on the creative city and its possibilities. Throughout the night the site hosted several public conversations
facilitated by people living and working across the GTA. Intermingled with these discussions there was a series of sonic conversations programmed in collaboration with Toronto's foremost experimental music
venue, the Music Gallery, in which musicians from across the city performed improvised and at times
interactive music.
Open to passers-by to engage or watch throughout the night, this structure invited you to sit and commingle
with performers. Between these planned events, use of the space was left open and unfocused to support
the development of spontaneous and diverse interactions.
YOU ARE HERE [audio project by Lewis Kaye]
For the audio file for this site, please right-click the link below
and select "save target as (pc) /
download linked file (mac)".
Grange Park (4.7 MB)
You Are Here instructions
1) Download each track to your personal computer
and add them to your favoured MP3 player software (e.g. iTunes, WinAmp, etc.) library.
2) Create a playlist specifically for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche,
and download this playlist to your portable MP3 player.
***Please note that while you can play the tracks on a normal stereo speaker system,
You Are Here is a binaural audio project specifically designed for personal stereos.
For full effect, each track should be listened to with headphones.
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