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No-Glow House
My brother and I enjoy venturing to random art exhibits around Toronto - our recent destination being Glow House #3 (one of the current exhibitions run by The Power Plant.
The exhibit is offsite from the Power Plant gallery itself, and is a detached house located at 323 Palmerston Avenue just north of College Street. Although if we didn't have the exact address, we would have walked right on by Glow House #3.
The Power Plant description of the Glow House builds up great excitement for what lays before you. The house 'glows' by having many television sets in the house tuned to the same channel, with all the interior lights turned off. 'When the house is viewed from the street at night, the effect of each small flicker of light from every CRT is compounded, together becoming a vivid 'pulse' of light emanating from its windows.'
Vivid pulse?
While the Glow House may have seemed like an interesting endeavour, I felt a bit cheated by the experience. A few passerby's were wondering why we were staring at 'that house', and taking pictures - they took little notice to the "art" that lay before them.
The Glow House may work in a suburban community (or even better, a small town in Northern Ontario) - but with the flashing lights of Little Italy a few feet away, the urban landscape becomes much more interesting to watch.
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i think the only disappointing thing about this show is that palmerston is the contruction constricting more passersby.
ps -- the only reason they were staring at you is that they wished they had their cameras too!
If the Glow House were in a more secluded, and dark space - it could be more appreciated. The lights from passing cars, people, and general Little Italy noise/light pollution took away from the experience.
Maybe that was the intention? I'm not one to say. You literally wouldn't know it was there unless someone stopped you in front of the house, and made you stare at the windows for a little while. I didn't find it moving, or impressive.