We (Thea Alvin and her Team) were invited to create an art installation at La Nuit Blanche in Ottowa. This is an all night 'art hop' where the whole city comes alive with creative arts. Film, dance, crafts, exhibitions, theatre and music are all represented and people can saunter through the city eating and drinking and taking in the shows..
After quite a bit of brain storming, we decided that the easiest and most impressive installation we could create at short notice would be a free standing arch made of shopping trollies. The site we were allocated was in the ley of a huge church which in daylight looked a little frightening but by night became the perfect backdrop to our installation.
After asking nicely at every store with carts in a 20 kilometer radius, we did what came naturally and stuffed carts in pairs into the back of the station wagon, stealthily...
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