In partnership with Nuit Blanche, the Winnipeg Arts Council presents family-friendly interactive artworks, designed to delight and engage Winnipeggers in our public spaces downtown. Come play with us...
Loop
Sep 28 – Oct 6, 2019
Old Market Square
Created by Olivier Girouard, Jonathan Villeneuve and Ottoblix
Produced by Ekumen and Quartier des Spectacles, Montreal
Loop is a cross between a music box, a zoetrope and a railway handcar. Working the hand-lever in tandem, Winnipeggers, young and old, will set the pace for these retro-futuristic machines, lighting up the cylinders and animating fairy-tales in Old Market Square. The images, tinted through a strobe effect, recall the earliest movies and are visible inside the cylinder as well as outside it, so that they can be watched from up close or far away.
Cycle
Sep 28 – Oct 6, 2019
Old Market Square (Bijou Park)
Created by Serge Maheu
Produced by Illuminart, Montreal
Tour produced by Creos
Inspired by the revolutions of the sun and the moon, Cycle is an interactive installation that illuminates Bijou Park. The modules come to life as people transmit their energy to Cycle and transform it into a larger-than-life musical sequencer.
Passage
Sep 28 – Oct 6, 2019
The Forks (Railway Bridge)
Created by Serge Maheu
Produced by Illuminart, Montreal
Tour produced by Creos
Presented in partnershp with Nuit Blanche Winnipeg, the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ and The Forks
Passage is an immersive, contemplative artwork that explores the emotional connections we develop with light and sound as we pass through the tunnel. The concept of the artwork takes root in the definition of the word passage itself: the act of moving through or past something on the way from one place to another, and also the process of transition from one state to another in a temporal dimension. Passage refers to this enigmatic moment between life and death, figured here as a pleasant space as part of another temporal dimension. It is a personal and sensory experience that remains playful.
Eyes
Sep 28, 2019
Waterfront Drive
Created by Filthy Luker and Pedro Estellas (Luke Egan and Pete Hamilton)
Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas turn their playful ideas into seriously large sculptures as some kind of personal vendetta against the mundane confines of the city in a heroic effort to make the world a brighter, more surreal place for us all. They are driven by their passion for innovative design, public art and mischievous intervention. Their pop-up installations never fail to turn heads, raise smiles and create epic scenes that shifts the everyday towards the surreal, the sublime and often the downright ridiculous.