BRIGHT LIGHT: Public Art in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

BRIGHT LIGHT: Public Art in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

BRIGHT LIGHT

Vancouver, Canada's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is the stage for BRIGHT LIGHT, a ground-breaking six-week series of public art exhibits, installations, performances and special events commissioned by the City of Vancouver to mark the occasion of the 2010 Olympic Winter and Paralympic Games.

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Positively White Cube Revisited

Simon Sheikh

In many ways, O’Doherty’s point is as simple as it is radical: the gallery space is not a neutral container, but a historical construct. Furthermore, it is an aesthetic object in and of itself. The ideal form of the white cube that modernism developed for the gallery space is inseparable from the artworks exhibited inside it. Indeed, the white cube not only conditions, but also overpowers the artworks themselves in its shift from placing content within a context to making the context itself the content.

e-flux

February 8 2010

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