This is just one of the many reasons I love Toronto.
For the next 11 days, Swintak (above) will be holed up in an abandoned
building at a municipal waste disposal site in the Toronto portlands
infusing a forlorn dumpster with a veneer of luxe. “A little
bit of beige, some white,” says Swintak, running a hand along the
glassy shellacked inner walls of her eventually posh receptacle. When
it’s done, a suite of rosewood furniture, multiple-hundred thread count
sheets and a two-item room-service menu will give the outsize garbage
can a sheen of the luxurious. The notion? A boutique hotel for
one night only in an alley behind a Burger King at College St. and
Spadina Ave. The installation is part of Nuit Blanche, Toronto’s
freshly adopted, all-night chaotic art spectacle on Sept. 29 from 7:03
p.m. to sunrise.
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