As IFOA starts in a little over a week, and everyone is rushing around buying tickets and planning their eleven-day-literary-smorgasbord, I thought you should know this: not everything worth seeing at Harbourfront this fall is gonna cost ya. Around every corner of the York Quay Centre you'll find remarkable art installations, from eerie videos of dancing teenagers to re-purposed exhibits from the Ontario Science Centre to a stunning display of bookbinding and book art, all a part of Visual Arts at Harbourfront's exciting fall season. Admission is free.
Though clearly biased, I definitely have a favourite exhibit. It's the latest in the architecture series, in which three contemporary architects and one writer are given a theme on which to base an installation. Disclosure: the architects are Donald Chong Studio, lateral architecture and NIP paysage. Full disclosure: the writer is me.
This season the theme is Personal Space, and I gotta say, the architects have had a ton of fun with the theme. Pop into the architecture gallery to swing as if you're six again, verify your own existence by customizing your own personal limits, and wander into the mirrored mind-blow of (Y)ourspace. Sound intriguing? A bit like an urban Burning Man? It is. I could have stayed in there for hours (until a couple children began strumming the elastic boundaries of my privacy like guitar strings... wha?).
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