Dyan Marie's Lansdowne Light
Box opens at 2 pm, May 12, 2012 with a poetry reading at the Coffee Time next to the phone booth located at the northwest corner of Bloor
and Lansdowne Ave. Buy a coffee or tea and stay for some words.
Here is Dyan's description of her installation:
Lansdowne Light Box transforms a phone booth
into a lighthouse and listening station. It recalls the stain glass windows of
local demolished churches—places where people came to hear stories and quietly
put words of their own into prayer.
Phone
booths are disappearing and the Bell Telephone logo will disappear from story
telling on street corners. Bell relocated their public signature to the Bell
Lightbox, home of TIFF, a public space to quietly consume stories in film.
The
installation in the phone booth, manifested in various shades of colour, comments
on changing forms of communication ( and miscommunication) as well as the
comforts, dysfunctions and needs addressed in acts of story telling.
Lansdowne
Light Box is located
in the phone both at the corner of Dupont Street and Lansdowne Avenue. The rapidly
changing intersection is the site of an industrial rise, fall, decay and
aggressive re-development process. The nominal centre of this whirlwind of
urban evolution is a long-established Coffee Time drive-in restaurant. Coffee Time’s outdoor public telephone is
the site of this project.
About
the Lansdowne and Dupont Intersection Location:
South-west
corner Dupont and Lansdowne
The Standard apartment complex was an American Standard toilet factory until the late 1990s that sat derelict for several years until it was renovated into the current large-scale rental unit.
The Standard apartment complex was an American Standard toilet factory until the late 1990s that sat derelict for several years until it was renovated into the current large-scale rental unit.
South-east
corner Dupont and Lansdowne
Formerly
a parkette fashioned from a previous TTC turnaround loop, the site has been a
seven-story condo building since the early 2000s.
North-west
corner Dupont and Lansdowne
This
classic early-20th-century factory structure is now flagged with
advertisements announcing plans to sprout a multi-storey high-rise condo tower
from its center core.
North-east
corner Dupont and Lansdowne
Just
north of the telephone booths, 1011 Lansdowne is an infamous rental high-rise
known as one of Toronto’s 10 worst buildings in press stories that have
reported its various transgressions and tragedies. In recent months, improvements
efforts are underway to stucco the building’s exterior.
Coming very soon are Dyan's poem and installation images...
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