Aurora Borealis. Photo courtesy of Winter Stations.
Winter Stations is back for its third year, and once again, it is inviting Torontonians to get outside to explore the city’s winter waterfront landscapes.
This year, the public art exhibition will welcome six new lifeguard stands to Balmy, Kew and Ashbridges Bay beaches in Toronto’s east end, situated south of Queen Street East and between Woodbine and Victoria Park. These lifeguard stations will each serve as the armature for the temporary installations, which will need to be designed to withstand Toronto’s very own winter weather.
The University Of Toronto Daniels Faculty Of Architecture Landscape and Design, Humber College School of Design and the University Of Waterloo School Of Architecture will each have teams of students designing three stands. The exhibition will run from February 20th until March 27, 2017. This single-stage competition is open to artists internationally, and welcomes artists, designers, architects and landscape architects to submit concept proposals for Winter Stations’ temporary artwork installations. The theme for this year’s Winter Stations is Catalyst.
Steam Canoe. Photo credit OCADU
Inspired by converting one form or substance into another, Winter Stations 2017 recognizes the current discourse of change that is seen in an international political, social and cultural search for a better way forward. Artists are asked to not only open up the landscape that they ar...