Celebration Square screens
Films
In response to an international open call for silent film, video and animation in all genres. Up to three minutes in length.
Temporary Public Art
Temporary Public Art
Solo Park
by Shannon Linde & Sarah Nasby
Solo Park is a temporary public artwork and bee hotel that functions as nesting habitat for native pollinators. The solitary ("solo") bees and wasps that use this hotel are non-aggressive, do not produce honey and rarely sting unless disturbed.
Artists' Statement:
"Referencing the surrounding area's settler history as a resort, amusement park, and cottage community, Solo Park reimagines the former Lorne Park gates that once enclosed the site. The work instead acts as a marker of shared public space, and encourages the pollinators that are essential to restoring local biodiversity to inhabit its various enclosures. In recognizing the invaluable work that solitary bees do, particularly as human activity continues to contribute to habitat loss and climate change, Solo Park offers a much needed retreat."
- Shannon Linde and Sarah Nasby
Solo Park is constructed out of natural wood, and free of any chemical finish or stain. The work has over 200 unique enclosures suitable for a variety of local bee species, whose nesting season runs from spring to fall.
About the Artists:
Shannon Linde is a Toronto-based artist, designer and curator. Her installations have been included in Come Up to My Room at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto; Upcycling: Recuperating Past Lives at the Art + Design Museum, Los Angeles; and Nuit Blanche, Toronto. Shannon is a founding member of Aisle 4, a curatorial collective that commissions and presents temporary public art projects rooted in social practice.
Sarah Nasby is a Toronto-based artist working primarily in sculpture and drawing. Her work has been shown recently in Fermenting Feminism at Access Gallery, Vancouver + Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto; Para//el Room at DNA Artspace, London; Taking [a] part at Mercer Union, Toronto; and Who's Afraid of Purple, Orange and Green? at the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina. In 2016-2019, she collaborated with artist Ella Dawn McGeough on the project Ray-Ray.
Gallery of Temporary Works
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PARK(ing) Day
Nathalie Quagliotto
September 19 to 30, 2012
4 parking spaces on Lakeshore Road within Port Credit BIA
Mixed Media
As a demonstration for how the street's vibrancy could be improved, the City of Mississauga and the Port Credit Business Improvement Association (BIA) jointly launched the initiative to temporarily and artistically transform on-street parking spaces into public space for 10 days.
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The Gaze
Various Artists - 2012
Celebration Square screens
Silent films
Experimental, narrative-based, interactive short films. A total of 8 works were selected and helped define, broaden and contribute to the philosopher Jacques Lacan's concept of distinguishing between the eye's look and THE GAZE. Partnership between City of Mississauga and Art Gallery of Mississauga.
Lee Blalock
SoJin Chun
Carolyn Doucette
Michael Hansen
Lee Henderson
Francis LeBouthillier
Laura Taler
Sumaira Tazeen
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Backside Flip
Dan Bergeron - 2013
Sculpture Court - north wall
acrylic latex masonry paint and premium spray paint
The large scale public art mural depicts a series of silhouettes of a skateboarder performing a backside flip alongside technical-style drawings of ramps. The work is intended to re-animate public space and reflects both the grace and complexity of skateboarding.
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Distressed Text Skateboard Trick List
Dan Bergeron - 2013
Sculpture Court - doorway
Premium spray paint
Mural installation on doorway leading to municipal parking lot depicting skateboard "tricks" in text.
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Dance Freely
TIMEANDDESIRE - 2014 (August)
Mississauga Celebration Square
Road sign blanks and vinyl
2 temporary art installations installed for 2 weeks to coincide with City SoundBites event on MCS
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Tree Quilts
Fugitive Glue - December 2014 to March 2015
Oak trees along Hurontario at Burnhamthorpe Rd W
Coloured fabric and yarn
11 municipal trees were wrapped using fabric for the winter months.
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Bradley House Melodrama
Dan Bergeron - June 1 to 7, 2015
Bradley Historic House
Coloured vinyl
Artist designed coloured vinyl installed on the facade of the Bradley Historic House. Collaboration with Museums of Mississauga.
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Bradley House Melodrama - Timelapse
Dan Bergeron - June 1 to 7, 2015
Bradley Historic House
Coloured vinyl
Artist designed coloured vinyl installed on the facade of the Bradley Historic House. Collaboration with Museums of Mississauga.
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Share The Love
Various Artists - July 10 to August 15, 2015
City-wide (14 locations in total)
Mixed Media
pop up Artist in Ward interventions in celebration of the TO2015 Pan / Parapan Am Games
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Art of Sport
RAW Design - August 2015 to October 2015
Lakeside Park
Reclaimed wood and epoxy
Commissioned by the City of Mississauga and funded by the Community Celebrations Fund for the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am / Parapan Am Games through Canada Heritage. An abstract collection of sculptural objects that pay homage to outdoor fitness trails.
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The Lifeline Project
Michael Simon, Taline Jirian, Marisa Gallemit - 2015 Winter Season
Oak trees along Hurontario at Burnhamthorpe Rd W
Military-grade paracord
By connecting the oak trees along Hurontario Street with 50,000 feet of bright paracord of gradient tones, the artists construct a reminder of vital energy while nature is deceptively in stasis.
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The Blue Trees
Konstantin Dimopoulos - 2016 (September)
The Blue Trees is an international award winning, temporary public art installation which raises questions about global deforestation through social action and community participation. Using an electric-blue coloured pigment, living trees will be transformed for a short time into a surreal landscape. The water-based colorant is biologically and environmentally safe, causes no damage and is meant to inspire conversation and action within the community. This artwork was completed in September 2016 at Mississauga Celebration Square.
Video produced by Matt Campagna
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CAN Colours 150
Amy Mailloux and Tony Di Nardo
For a third year in a row, a public art competition was held to ask the arts community to create wraps for the oak trees which line the center of Hurontario Street. Artists Amy Mailloux and Tony Di Nardo's design was selected entitled CAN Colours 150, which celebrates Canada's 150th anniversary. This temporary public art installation celebrates the diversity of cultures and ethnicities that unites us all as a nation.
Our national diversity is emphasized through an abstract visual representation of world flags with a bold red and white colour signifying Canada at its core. Thirty-two oak trees along Hurontario Street will be wrapped using 57,000 strips of plastic fabric - each strip represents the millions of people that make Canada beautiful. Standing tall and at the centre of the artwork is the Unity Tree; intertwining and merging all the world's flag colours in one.
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Celebration and Reflection: A Day in the Life
Gary Taxali
Celebration and Reflection: A Day in the Life is a temporary public art installation by artist Gary Taxali, inspired by the Poet Laureate Program. The artwork is a visual response and interpretation of the poetic works of 2016 Youth Poet Laureate Rebecca Zseder. Taxali's artistic design features his signature pop art style, iconic characters, vintage graphics, and typography in a composite of layered graphics, generated by the themes in Zseder's poems: "Skin", "Pieces", and "Symphonies".
The artwork references struggles with self-worth, identity and human complexities such as humour and angst of everyday life. These themes are a way to express a visual dialogue between the artwork and the messages in the poetry.
The utility boxes serve as canvas for the Mississauga community to appreciate the intersection of poetry and art in a unique, meaningful and inspiring way. Urban landscapes through its architecture, street signs, traffic lights, electric wires, and of course, utility boxes inherently all contain a somber beauty.
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Sun-SET
by Polymetis - 2017
Back for the fouth consecutive year, the Winter Tree Wraps are installed along the centre median of Hurontario Street and the median of Burnhamthorpe Road West and Promontory Drive. Artists Michaela MacLeod and Nicholas Croft of Polymetis have created a design that features a vibrant sunset spanning the 52 oak trees. In addition to signalling a new dawn for the City of Mississauga in the face of new projects, Sun-SET addresses the theme of environmental stewardship and our appreciation of it.
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Dear Mississauga
Wali Shah - 2018
Dear Mississauga is a public art project that brings poetry to the heart of our civic space. Wali Shah, Mississauga's Poet Laureate, asked residents to finish the sentence "I belong to Mississauga because..." and weaved their answers into a poem that reflects the city's values and sense of belonging.
Dear Mississauga is a collaboration between the City's Poet Laureate and the Public Art Program.
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Portrait of M
Dan Bergeron - 2018
Portrait of M highlights the cultural and demographic diversity of Mississauga and seeks to communicate the stories of its residents. Over 110 portraits were shot by Dan Bergeron, a selection of which were printed and displayed on banners in the downtown core. The artwork conveys the idea that people are complex and that there is no one way we should look at each other or ourselves.
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Finding Home
Mango Peeler - 2019
Finding Home is a collaborative public art project involving artist mentor Mango Peeler and nine emerging artists: Sofia Nicolis, Khaula Mazhar, Linh Thai, Ray Vidal, Jenna Polla, Geraldine Svic, Reiley Whelan, Tennille Dowers, and Rachel Tham. The artists co-created a series of murals at Sculpture Court Skate Park, inspired by a poem written by Mississauga's Youth Poet Laureate Pujita Verma. Through screen-printing, painting, and wheat-pasting, Finding Home explores what Home means to each of these artists, all of whom are from Mississauga.
Photo by Reg Vertolli. Courtesy of Mississauga News.
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Reborn
Dan Bergeron - 2019
Reborn is a functional sculpture made in part from recycled vinyl banner material from a previous City of Mississauga public art project. This up-cycling project is unique in its design and provides shade, seating, and a glimpse of some city residents. Dan Bergeron is a public artist whose work reflects upon issues of personal identity, social relationships, and the spaces that we collectively inhabit.
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Child’s Play
Jacqueline Mak - 2019
Child's Play is a public art project that highlights our journey in Mississauga. Digital collages depicting children playing with local buildings, objects, and landscapes were printed on banners throughout Mississauga's downtown core. Through humour and juxtaposition, Jacqueline Mak challenges our views on the critical issues that we seldom pay attention to but which affect our daily lives. Child's Play will be on display along Living Arts Drive, Princess Royal, and City Centre Drive from June to November 2019.
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The City Builders
Wenting Li - 2018
Aluminum hoarding art, located on Burnhamthorpe Rd W.
In The City Builders, viewers are invited to spot Mississauga's many cultural and architectural landscapes. The work references the people of Mississauga, who give the city its liveliness, purpose, and vitality, and the idea that cities are something we all build together. This hoarding surrounds the construction area where underground infrastructure is being built for the Burnhamthorpe Water Project.
This PATCH project was a collaboration between the City of Mississauga, Region of Peel, and STEPS Initiative.
Photo credit: Sharon Mendonca.
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The Spark
Urban Visuals - 2018
Aluminum, LED lights, located at Small Arms Inspection Building
The Spark connects the future creative use of the Small Arms Inspection Building with its past as a firearms inspections facility. Based on a dodecahedron (twelve-pointed) star, the nucleus is "embedded" into the core of the building, with six points radiating from the rooftop beyond the facade edge. Periodic glitches in its LED lights mark the passing of time. The illuminated form acts as a beacon for visitors approaching the building from Lakeshore Road East and Dixie Road.
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Work of Wind
Ed Pien - 2018
Water pipes, installed on Lakeshore Rd W
Part of the 10-day contemporary art festival "The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea", Hydra was installed along the edge of the Petro Canada brownfields as well as the land adjacent to the CRH Cement Plant. The installation consisted of a network of water pipe systems connected to above-ground swimming pools equipped with electrical pumps that pushed water through the pipe system. Hydra grappled with the crisis of near-irreversible environmental damage-- its water configuration and circulation alluding to the complex and intricately balanced water networks that sustain the Earth. The installation also made reference to the circulatory systems of living beings and to our collective vital dependence on water, while the swimming pools attested to privilege, excess, and waste. Hydra's overall configuration and working system pointed to extraction, and the intentional leakage of the system recalled the endless episodes of leaked pipelines and sunken oil tankers marking the surface of the Earth.
