Kyuubi+ Négar Devine-Tajgardan: Savage Growth
Nuit Blanche YXE 2022 • Saskatoon • September 25, 2022
Project Concept
Using the visual language of performance art and the symbology of fungus, SAVAGE GROWTH aims to convey our appreciation for the resilience of those neglected life forms. We plan to combine wearable sculptural installations with our artistic interpretation of the choreography. In conjunction with lighting, our project strives to repurpose the abandoned alleyways into places of mesmerizing beauty, which echoes the notion of unrelenting life forms overcoming harsh environments and expressing their unique yet under-appreciated charms.
Nuit Blanche Description
Kyuubi Culture is joined for their latest project, SAVAGE GROWTH, an interactive performance piece that transforms a space with theatrical lighting, psychedelic sound, luminous wearable sculpture, and interpretive choreography. Using fungi as symbolism, this project showcases the resilient growth of underappreciated beauty in nature.
Kyuubi Culture is an interdisciplinary collective consisting of Xiao Han and Qiming Sun that strives to bridge the gaps between divergent cultures by exhibiting artworks that utilize traditional and technological creative processes. Joined by Negar Tajgardan
Performance Clip
Video Credit: Fiona Tu
Nuit Blanche Introduction
Nuit Blanche is an annual all-night art festival that revolves around the two core concepts of “urban innovation” and “public space design”, was established to close the gap between artists and the general public. In 1989, the largest Finnish art festival Helsinki Festival established its Night of the Arts, “when every gallery, museum and bookshop is open until midnight or later and the whole city becomes one giant performance and carnival venue”.
A year later, the mayor of Nantes, Jean-Marc Ayrault's program included renovating the central city and establishing a “contemporary patrimony”, which led arts programmer Jean Blaise to create a late-night cultural festival, “Les Allumées”(Things Alight). His concept was to have an arts festival in Nantes, from 6 pm to 6 am, over six years with artists from six cities.
After this series of festivals, the late-night cultural festival now renamed Nuit Blanche quickly spread in more than 120 cities across Europe. Later on, it came to North America. In 2004 Montreal launched the first Canadian Nuit Blanche, the cultural phenomenon was then immediately spread to Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary, Halifax, and Saskatoon in the following years.
