HOLDING GROUND: NUIT BLANCHE AND OTHER RUPTURES
Edited by Julie Nagam and Janine Marchessault
PUBLIC Books, 2022
312 pages, 22 x 28 cm

This edited collection brings together historical, contemporary, and future-oriented ways of understanding public art in, and adjacent to, the development of Nuit Blanche in Canada. Personal reflections, dialogues, and projects generate a multiperspectival and cross-cultural sense of this all-night public exhibition, which has spanned numerous Canadian cities and forged countless community relations. In addition, it weaves international voices into the dialogue on public art and public space. With contributions by Hiba Abdallah, Karen Alexander, Fern Bayer, Honoure Black and Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Carole Boughannam, Karl Chitham, Sara Diamond, Alyssa Fearon, Peggy Gale, GLAM Collective (Heather Igloliorte, Julie Nagam, Carla Taunton), Édouard Glissant and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jenn Goodwin, Maria Hupfield, Umbereen Inayet, Serena Keshavjee, Justin Langlois, Janine Marchessault, Denise Markonish, Ashley McKenzie-Barnes, bpNichol, Leah Sandals, Haema Sivanesan, Synonym Art Consultation (Chloe Chafe and Andrew Eastman), and Jean-Philippe Uzel.

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