http://www.kristinaleepodesva.com/artworks daily 1.0 2016-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468108077424-8C93X1PBN13KPOOQRTX3/59_mg1146.jpg Selected Art Works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468108077424-8C93X1PBN13KPOOQRTX3/59_mg1146.jpg Selected Art Works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468197961519-FU7NMWYR8P2E62X0SKZ0/_MG_1166-.jpg Selected Art Works http://www.kristinaleepodesva.com/brown-studies daily 0.75 2016-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468122431220-PFBD7OAOHZKZI6ISKNGL/_MG_1140*.jpg Brown Studies (2007-12) - Brown Studies (2011) Darling Foundry / La Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Canada Curated by Alissa Firth Eagland   In this image (clockwise): Brown Study: Colour Line, dipytch screenprints Brown Study: CMYK, tetraptych screeprints Brown Flag, sculpture (ON) DIT (AUX) ILES (DES) GARES NOIR(ES), assisted readymade text work poster       Photo: Guy L'Heureux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468122431220-PFBD7OAOHZKZI6ISKNGL/_MG_1140*.jpg Brown Studies (2007-12) - Brown Studies (2011) Darling Foundry / La Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Canada Curated by Alissa Firth Eagland   In this image (clockwise): Brown Study: Colour Line, dipytch screenprints Brown Study: CMYK, tetraptych screeprints Brown Flag, sculpture (ON) DIT (AUX) ILES (DES) GARES NOIR(ES), assisted readymade text work poster       Photo: Guy L'Heureux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468124245241-BRL6NL4MOX8XE7G7N7JS/_MG_1151*.jpg Brown Studies (2007-12) - Brown Studies (2011) Darling Foundry / La Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Canada Curated by Alissa Firth Eagland In this image: Brown Flag, sculpture L'avenir, screenprint on mirror (ON) DIT (AUX) ILES (DES) GARES NOIR(ES) (WE) SAY (TO THE) ISLANDS (OF) BLACK STATIONS, assisted readymade text work poster           Photo: Guy L'Heureux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468124855888-KBZ7LUMP0CQ6F1EG6SQM/_MG_1154*.JPG Brown Studies (2007-12) - Brown Studies (2011) Darling Foundry / La Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Canada Curated by Alissa Firth Eagland In this image: Brown Study Colour Line, diptych screenprints Brown Study CMYK, tetraptych screenprints     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468123718237-WC6SOVDHGX0TP8I4CC1U/_MG_1166*.jpg Brown Studies (2007-12) - Brown Studies (2011) Darling Foundry / La Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Canada Curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland   In this image: L'avenir, screenprint on mirror (ON) DIT (AUX) ILES (DES) GARES NOIR(ES) (WE) SAY (TO THE) ISLANDS (OF) BLACK STATIONS, assisted readymade text work poster           Photo: Guy L'Heureux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468123485532-ON3LJARVEGYDP4UGXXDJ/_MG_1146*.jpg Brown Studies (2007-12) - Brown Studies (2011) Darling Foundry / La Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Canada Curated by Alissa Firth Eagland In this image: Brown Flag, sculpture Brown Study Colour Line, diptych screenprints This dipytch appeared in the exhibition Red, Green, Blue ≠ White, curated by Johnson Ngo for the Blackwood gallery.           Photo: Guy L'Heureux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468124963114-8UOGV6CQLCADARZ6I9AT/405.jpg Brown Studies (2007-12) - Brown Globe (2007) Vinyl inflatable, 12' diameter x 15' Brown Globe has appeared in exhibitions at the Belkin gallery (Vancouver), the Or gallery (at No Soul for Sale, Tate, London), the University of Toronto, Mississauga, and the Reel Asian Film Festival (Toronto). In this picture: Brown Globe at No Soul for Sale, curated by Jonathan Middleton for the Or gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468125139478-0R6SY6CVPY5YWOD2XZ0Y/brown_globe_or.jpg Brown Studies (2007-12) - Brown Globe (2007) In this image: Brown Globe, Or Gallery, Vancouver http://www.kristinaleepodesva.com/humannature daily 0.75 2016-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468111904545-3P7QR4GBOB9DWIXTOTZD/flag+%281%29.jpg Texts (2009-16) - A piece of fabric, as a symbol of basic truths, decorated with stars Text Work (2016) Written on residency with SFMOMA's Open Space blog. This piece presents a re-interpretation of the U.S. national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner."   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468111904545-3P7QR4GBOB9DWIXTOTZD/flag+%281%29.jpg Texts (2009-16) - A piece of fabric, as a symbol of basic truths, decorated with stars Text Work (2016) Written on residency with SFMOMA's Open Space blog. This piece presents a re-interpretation of the U.S. national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner."   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468112511037-VSDVVR5O3BWALFC8ZE2X/Victoriaestrada.bw_.jpg Texts (2009-16) - <s>Plato’s Cave</s> Lilith’s Cave Text Work (2016) Written on residency with SFMOMA's Open Space blog. This piece re-imagines and re-writes Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" by recasting Socrates and Glaucon with Lilith and Eve, the first two women according to Hebraic literature. It explores what we have inherited from this key text in the tradition of classical Western thought and presents an alternative philosophical past and legacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468113297884-1Q0XKY8FCWV2QM39YXIC/mamawav.png Texts (2009-16) - “Yes, This is mama” (a translation) (2016) Text Work Written on residency with SFMOMA's Open Space blog. This piece consists of "poems" that are "translations" made from transcripts of voicemails left by my mother who speaks English as a Second Language. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468114277425-DE1W5UAXPBFZE4482GQR/TvsM_DelMoral_ENG_OK-19.png Texts (2009-16) - Tradición versus Modernidad / Tradition versus Modernity (2014) Text Work in Spanish and English For the book of the same name, I created a linguistic and semiotic translation of a lecture written by the Mexican modern architect Enrique del Moral. Using research and images presented in footnotes throughout the lecture, the work creates an active form of engaging with the words and ideas of del Moral. Published by Guayaba Press and Archivo in Mexico City. Edited by Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio and Kristina Lee Podesva.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468114982731-09HOXNDLEGCZKHKTSYJV/inv.png Texts (2009-16) - __the estrangement, the loss__the object, of__product (2012) Text Work This project was commissioned for an online exhibition entitled Inverse Operating Manual, curated by Dena Beard, for The Present Group. It was designed to accompany an earlier web work This is a Vehicle. The project appeared in the form of a downloadable PDF that features an excerpt from Karl Marx’s Estranged Labour (1844) alongside abstract volumetric shapes that stand in for capitalist goods and services. Artists included in this exhibition were Anthony Discenza, the Center for Tactical Magic, David Horvitz, Packard Jennings, Anna Lundh, Elizabeth Sims, and me. Ideas for the project started taking shape while in residence at Real Time and Space in Oakland. To see the full PDF, please email a request. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468115501077-NTJ8IVTVVWOVIN9A7D10/dramatis.png Texts (2009-16) - Dramatis Personae for a partial history of the Haitian Revolution, an ongoing drama, unfinished project, & continuing plot… (2012-ongoing) Text Work This piece is the third in a series dedicated to the Haitian Revolution. Begun in 2011, the series is a personal and ongoing commitment to create a work engaging with the revolution, its history, legacy, and people through artistic experiments and investigations. Dramatis Personae... assembles the cast of characters involved in the revolution according to C.L.R. James’ The Black Jacobins and Lauren Dubois’ Avengers of the New World. Part historical homage, fictionalized departure, and poetic exercise, the work occasions a revitalization of the period and its participants. To see the full PDF, please email a request. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468115785678-3V4AOG15DO6GGT3RWY4G/epilogueforenlight.png Texts (2009-16) - Epilogue for the Enlightenment (2012) Text Work This work takes as its subject the form and feeling of “haunting” that Enlightenment thought has left to us as "inheritance". For us, this thought exists as a perpetual ghost. The piece engages Enlightenment innovations such as the Cartesian plane and Denis Diderot’s Encyclopedie in a treatment that renders these legacies as strange and spectral. Ideas for the project started taking shape while I was an artist in residence at Real Time and Space in Oakland. To see the full PDF, please email a request. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468115947286-1G9CHSP31EKS1SV6BO43/expo.jpg Texts (2009-16) - Waking Up from the Nightmare of Participation (2011) Published Art Work For the book Waking Up from the Nightmare of Participation, edited by Markus Miessen and Nina Valerie Kolowratnik and published by Expodium, I contributed a text and a series of stills from my video installation Structure of Relief (shown in the image). http://www.kristinaleepodesva.com/web-works-20062009 daily 0.75 2016-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468127153349-3EJTGLP0TMOW1MKDWX8M/09f9fsw.jpg Archive Projects (2005-07) - 09 F9 Archive (2007+) Digital and Analogue Archive, collaboration with Alan McConchie The 09f9 Archive was exhibited in It Narratives: The Movement of Objects as Information (curated by Brian Droitcour and Zanna Gilbert) at Franklin Street Works (Stamford) and in Recipes for an Encounter (curated by Berin Golonu, Candice Hopkins, and Marias Jahn) at Dorsky Gallery (Long Island City), and at Cornershop Projects (Vancouver). In early 2007, hackers cracked a digital code used to copy HD DVDs. The 32 digit code enabled anyone with the knowledge to make unrestricted copies of encrypted HD DVDs. As the number quickly spread on the web, lawyers from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) threatened suits against any site publishing its code, which caused a wave of censures and a virtual riot. Embedded in photos, songs, videos, colour fields and equations -- all aesthetic representations -- the code proliferated in forms designed to evade detection and censorship from computer spyware. This archive collects these cultural artifacts and documents in images, videos, and songs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468127178166-57O1NBQXT4XW68KVB616/09f9+copy.jpg Archive Projects (2005-07) - 09 F9 Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468128154063-CIG8PNNLO73WYT1AGLOD/especial+copy.jpg Archive Projects (2005-07) - Enunciations (2005+) Photographic Archive Enunciations entitles a series of photographs documenting vernacular, multi-lingual signage from cities around North America including Montreal, New York, and Vancouver. The photographs document the flows of people, languages, goods, and services by showcasing various diasporas, cultures, and businesses in circulation within local contexts that connect to more distant geographies and peoples. A selection of photographs from this series appeared in the group exhibition , curated by David Horvitz, for Golden Parachutes in Berlin in 2010. This exhibition included works by Haris Epaminonda, Marius Engh, Vlatka Horvat, Charlotte Moth, Lisa Tan, Oraib Toukan, Lucy Raven, and me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468128285682-3FVOSQKL1VJG2F3PXOLJ/supermarche+copy.jpg Archive Projects (2005-07) - Enunciations From the ongoing photographic archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468128840566-UJVDPCDU2RBOQ5VPJCSG/boucherie.jpg Archive Projects (2005-07) - Enunciations From the ongoing photographic archive http://www.kristinaleepodesva.com/participatory-collaborative-dialogic-works daily 0.75 2016-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468129339131-6VWKLJKMD0ADGVROT5GP/7_7ubccs.jpg Participatory, Collaborative Works (2006-09) - colourschool (2006-2008) Free school colourschool was a free school within a school dedicated to the speculative research and exploration of five colours: black, white, red, yellow, and brown. For one year it occupied an MFA studio at the University of British Columbia and then for another year it took up residence within the Interactive Digital Studios at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design. Providing a free and open space for critical investigations of colour, identity, artmaking, and knowledge production, colourschool attempted to develop a collaborative colour consciousness through a variety of events including reading groups, film screenings, listening labs, interviews, roundtable discussions, brown bag lunches, performances, and installations, among other activities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468129339131-6VWKLJKMD0ADGVROT5GP/7_7ubccs.jpg Participatory, Collaborative Works (2006-09) - colourschool (2006-2008) Free school colourschool was a free school within a school dedicated to the speculative research and exploration of five colours: black, white, red, yellow, and brown. For one year it occupied an MFA studio at the University of British Columbia and then for another year it took up residence within the Interactive Digital Studios at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design. Providing a free and open space for critical investigations of colour, identity, artmaking, and knowledge production, colourschool attempted to develop a collaborative colour consciousness through a variety of events including reading groups, film screenings, listening labs, interviews, roundtable discussions, brown bag lunches, performances, and installations, among other activities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468129337930-X1PF86D3CYOAREVXJTI0/7_colourschoollegs.jpg Participatory, Collaborative Works (2006-09) - colourschool (2006-2008) colourschool at the University of British Columbia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468129586049-HJ8FYZTCDE3US5MYVUP5/7_7csvideo.jpg Participatory, Collaborative Works (2006-09) - colourschool (2006-2008) colourschool at the University of British Columbia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468129772769-BQXO7E5OWANGFTIQVUGM/19_19srentryadj.jpg Participatory, Collaborative Works (2006-09) - Showroom (2008) Installation, Symposium, Forums Centre A, Vancouver, Curated by Makiko Hara Showroom presented a platform for addressing the relationship between art and public space through the framework of a condominium showroom and construction site. The project engaged with urgent themes of contemporary culture, spatial practice, and artistic production through an installation, symposium, and series of public forums that included architects, urban planners, artists, housing advocates, curators, and artist run centre curators and administrators. Showroom facilitated discussion and analysis between cultural institutions and individuals involved in looking at the impact of urban (re)development in Vancouver and beyond. Showroom was conceptualized, designed, and organized by Kristina Lee Podesva and Inge Roecker in collaboration with Michelle Allard, Marianne Bos, Patrick Chan, Paul de Guzman, Vanessa Kwan, Gwenessa Lam, Heidi Nagtegaal, Alex Pensato, Ryan Peter, and Jordan Strom. The project owes much inspiration to Martha Rosler's If you lived here from 1991. Images: Will Ting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468129781131-GWJ63X2YB80LAQ6OS8ED/19_19srpeopleadj.jpg Participatory, Collaborative Works (2006-09) - Showroom (2008) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468129793441-RU3JVKNLMVBHM2CAVBJ1/19_19srbathadj.jpg Participatory, Collaborative Works (2006-09) - Showroom (2008) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468129819661-G5U60UNR3SJTKJCJ0O9T/19_19srloungeadj.jpg Participatory, Collaborative Works (2006-09) - Showroom (2008) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468130361254-ONQYQKF4F82R9JP4V3Z7/13_vehicle05adj.jpg Participatory, Collaborative Works (2006-09) - Vehicle (2008-2009) Langara Centre for Art in Public Spaces Residency Vehicle re-purposed the symbolic and architectural space of shipping containers to catalyze conversations and collaborations concerning our experience of globalization. It provided a spatial and programmatic frame for slowing down global flows for speculative study. Through a series of reading rooms and re(writing) events, the project proposed that an intimate, interactive site could localize and temporarily slow rapidly moving global currents. Vehicle’s Reading Rooms An integral part of the project included reading rooms, inspired by Aleksandr Rodchenko’s Worker’s Room for the 1925 Paris Exposition. For each room, I worked with a collaborator to create three, one month-long installations -- Thought for Food (with Jeffrey Swartz), Copy Room (with Jeff Khonsary), and Book Drop (with Vanessa Kwan). Each room broadly and respectively investigated themes of consumption, property, and labour in conjunction with Vehicle’s overall study of globalization. Vehicle’s (Re) Writing Events In dialogue with Vehicle’s reading rooms, were events and activities that took an experimental and informal approach to the study of globalization through small group meetings, workshops, and discussions. These events developed through collaborations with the Langara faculty, students, and local residents. This project would not have been possible without the incredible vision and strenuous work of Barbara Cole, Lorna Brown, and the many staff, faculty, and students at Langara College, especially from the Art and Facilities Department. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468130360053-4LW8FV6JVJBKQTGW1S3J/13_vehicle20adj.jpg Participatory, Collaborative Works (2006-09) - Vehicle (2008-2009) Langara Centre for Art in Public Spaces Residency, Vancouver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468130360503-3F8I5GFZNEUI5D6J53QK/13_img1594adj.jpg Participatory, Collaborative Works (2006-09) - Vehicle (2008-2009) Langara Centre for Art in Public Spaces Residency, Vancouver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1468130704239-9CO06MQI56V88C9LCNLZ/9_cornershop730.jpg Participatory, Collaborative Works (2006-09) - Cornershop Projects (2007-2008) Cornershop Projects offered a flexible framework for engaging with economic exchange. Located in a former corner store, Cornershop hosted, initiated, and encouraged projects that examined the possibilities and limitations of financial transactions including, but not limited to, buying, selling, begging, borrowing, stealing, renting, owning, bartering, blackmarketing, etc… Cornershop Projects was a collaborative space for activities hosted by Sophie Brodovitch, Jacob Gleeson, and Kristina Lee Podesva. http://www.kristinaleepodesva.com/performance daily 0.75 2018-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1498945160505-SBT7D9MZZ39LEWKXC1ZY/lilith1a.jpg Performance (2017) - Lilith's Cave (2017) Western Washington University Gallery, Bellingham, WA (US), Curated by Lee Plested Lilith's Cave is a performance based on an experimental text I wrote while in residency with SFMOMA's Open Space. The text is a daoist and feminist reimagining of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in which Lilith and Eve replace Glaucon and Socrates as the characters in dialogue. The setting for this performance was at Bruce Nauman's Stadium Piece (1998-99) pictured here. Actors: Nancy Tam, Anjela Magpantay, Wardrobe: Leah Weinstein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1498945160505-SBT7D9MZZ39LEWKXC1ZY/lilith1a.jpg Performance (2017) - Lilith's Cave (2017) Western Washington University Gallery, Bellingham, WA (US), Curated by Lee Plested Lilith's Cave is a performance based on an experimental text I wrote while in residency with SFMOMA's Open Space. The text is a daoist and feminist reimagining of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in which Lilith and Eve replace Glaucon and Socrates as the characters in dialogue. The setting for this performance was at Bruce Nauman's Stadium Piece (1998-99) pictured here. Actors: Nancy Tam, Anjela Magpantay, Wardrobe: Leah Weinstein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1498946056557-BD9USTOOY6FLS40FUX63/lillith12.jpg Performance (2017) - Lilith's Cave (2017) Photo: Avyen von Waldenburg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1498945924294-2UWEFARBK9L3MEBDX60A/lillith11.jpg Performance (2017) - Lilith's Cave (2017) Photo: Erik von Muller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1498945804324-7CAFLYVBNMKUXFCNSRHW/lilith10.jpg Performance (2017) - Lilith's cave (2017) Photo: Erik von Muller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1498941816526-AMRL9GLKA5EFMQCQ9IN5/evm9.jpg Performance (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1498944948700-WRGQACFDBKBF0CAOEAKX/lilith4.jpg Performance (2017) - Lilith's Cave (2017) Photo: Erik von Muller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1498945101369-AW3BBG2KV27LT5GHSOFA/lilith5.jpg Performance (2017) - Lilith's Cave (2017) Photo: Erik von Muller   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1498945354176-W77NCVYGH6I9SCNK0FTX/lilith6.jpg Performance (2017) - Lilith's Cave (2017) Photo: Erik von Muller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1498945452536-23UNHPQUEUYGX4YKS45O/lilith7.jpg Performance (2017) - Lilith's Cave (2017) Photo: Erik von Muller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1498945542577-MVHU05ASEKLCLHTO38KB/lilith8.jpg Performance (2017) - Lilith's Cave (2017) Photo: Erik von Muller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1498947009277-TXTYF49RKDK8L03BVWFH/lillith13.jpg Performance (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1498945642072-5EQKH0FO225FDL3AXZY9/lilith9.jpg Performance (2017) - Lilith's Cave (2017) Photo: Erik von Muller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57818c2459cc687a7d628f21/1531170313474-D3T7Q2NC8S7Z6XKX2QGA/2.cots.jpg Performance (2017) - Dream Variations (2017) Collaboration with Abbbas Akhavan for Nuit Blanche, Toronto (CAN) | Curated by Barbara Fischer | Programming Supervisor: Asad Raza | Production Supervisor: Stefan Lenzi With Mes Amis Canada / Darzee; Hussein Janmohamed & singers from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music; and the Toronto performance community. Dream Variations was a collaborative performance project and transitional framework (between evening to dawn) providing a space of retreat for visitors (guests) throughout the duration of the Nuit Blanche festival (7 pm to 7 am). 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