A one-day performance workshop + performance experience
Nonsense Group Photo of 111 Toronto Citizens is a playful project in which the artist will gather 111 Torontonians for the sole purpose of taking a group photograph with a large format camera at a selected Toronto landmark or tourist location. Reminiscent of summer travels with family, this project is both a guerrilla intervention challenging the norms of “acceptable” behaviour on a public street corner and a hilarious group performance, documented in real time, elaborated by size and scale.
We need exactly 111 participants for this unique performative social experience. Bring your friends and families, everyone is welcome. Meet in the lobby of the 401 Richmond Street West building where we will organize ourselves, hear instructions from the artist, and venture out as a group to our photo location.
Nonsense Group Photo of 111 Toronto Citizens by Yoshinori Niwa
A one-day performance workshop + performance experience
July 17, 2009 @ 1:00pm–4:00pm
401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
This workshop is presented in conjunction with the The Arts of Togetherness exhibition
Gendai Gallery at the Japanese Cultural Centre
July 11–August 23, 2008
With artists Sandee Moore and Yoshinori Niwa
Guest curated by Milena Placentile
Thanks to community and presentation partners including the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Manitoba Arts Council, Tani Miki and The Japan-Canada Fund.