Day Equals Night by Adrian Blackwell
Even though the crowd is small, it's rowdy and noisy at the Council Chambers. The projection rotates around the room and shows a 24-hour time lapse of a spot in Regent Park. Not sure I get the 360 degrees projection. Seems like it would have been more interesting to watch if it was stationary. You couldn't see it half the time... unless you were confident enough to jump into the Mayor's chair.
*update*
I get the panorama projection now:
Filmed in Regent Park from sunrise to sunset on October fourth 2008, Night Equals Day is being projected in City Hall’s council chambers from sunset to sunrise one year later. The film was shot at one frame per second with a 35mm film camera mounted on a motorized tripod head, rotating one degree every second, turning one full rotation each hour, capturing twelve daylight panoramas from 7:00am until 7:00pm. The installation is governed by a simple mathematical logic of shutter and pan speeds and the symmetrical relationship between the time of filming and the time of projection. It is intended to raise questions about the temporality of urban renewal and the equality between successive forms of the city’s fabric. The film rotates at the intersection of Sackville and Oak Streets, at the boundary between the neighbourhood built in the 1950s and the construction site of the new buildings which are replacing it. For Nuit Blanche the projection emphasizes relationship between a site, a residential neighbourhood, and a non-site, the virtual space of decision making in the council chambers at City Hall. Still not sure how effective it was. Venue-appropriate, yes. Just would have liked to stand by the projector and watch the whole thing go around and around.
