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Future forward: Brendan Fernandes' stacked shipping container 'Habitat' was one of the highlights of Nuit Blanche. He talks about the project and his future plans with Carol-Ann M. Ryan.

Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Future forward: Brendan Fernandes' stacked shipping container 'Habitat' was one of the highlights of Nuit Blanche. He talks about the project and his future plans with Carol-Ann M. Ryan.(Interview)

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On October 4, 2008, the city of Toronto was energized by the arts for the third instalment of Nuit Blanche. This latest edition benefited from a geographical expansion, with new neighbourhoods such as Liberty Village included as sites of activity. In this location, curator Haema Sivanesan programmed seven installations that explored cultural diversity. Among them was Brendan Fernandes' Future (... -- -- -- ...) Perfect, a large outdoor work made of stacked shipping containers.

Made of nine full-sized, industrial shipping containers stacked in a configuration that intentionally resembled Habitat '67, the structure was impressive. Rising three storeys high, it took up an entire parking lot in Liberty Village. Each open container had six lights positioned inside, about eight feet back from the opening. The lights were programmed by Fernandes and a lighting designer to pulsate SOS in Morse code: three short flashes followed by three longer pulses followed by three short flashes. Set to a random sequence so that different containers lit up at different times, the calls for "help" took on the form of the container and were projected into the night.

Fernandes conceived the work to call attention to the notion of a modern-day dystopia. Habitat '67 was built for the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal; a...

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