Into the Culture Cave: Generator of Art and Community, Emotions and Ideas
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.93 (754 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1911164295 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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For 17 days in June 2016 the Luminato Festival transformed the Hearn Generating Station in the Port Lands in Toronto into the largest temporary cultural and community center in the world. In the "Culture Cave" this rule is inverted. Conventional multi-disciplinary institutions like the Barbican Centre still separate in space and not in time. Around 100,000 people visited the Hearn Generating Station and experienced large-scale exhibitions, theater performances, classical, pop, electro concerts, club events, talks, parkour workout sessions, drag queen shows, a high end French bistro run by Canada’s top chefs in the former control room and no walls.Luminato Festival’s residency at the Hearn was inspired by three ideas:Jane Jacob’s dogma that new ideas must use old buildings”.Ariane Mnouchkine’s hierarchy free theater company Theatre du Soleil.Cedric Price’s and Joan Littlewood’s Fun Palacethinking about architecture in terms of process and events in time rather than objects in space.Into the Culture Cave fully documents this remarkable Festival and the 17 days that created a live proposal for the future of this building and outlined a model