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Luminato Creativity Arts Festival: Find Kurt Perschke's Red Ball

by Tomitheos Linardos | June 9, 2009 at 10:51 am

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The Luminato Creativity Arts Festival is represented by a huge red ball public installation by artist Kurt Perschke.

The bouncing Red Ball has traveled around the world and has appeared in Barcelona, Sydney Busan South Korea, Chicago and now Toronto. The giant inflatable red ball is 20 feet in diameter and is traveling around the GTA changing locations daily basis.

Where to Look for Luminato's Red Ball

It is wedged into concrete corners, easing into public entrance ways, appearing beneath bridges or poping up in city alleyways. The installation transforms public space into a temporary outdoor gallery for the month of June.

Children are immediately amused by the red ball and run into to it and bounce around while adults seem confused or mildly perplexed. The red ball is always near water fountains and Samuel Carr inflates and manually sets up the red ball.

It has so far appeared at:

Nathan Philips Square 100 Queen Street West
Old City Hall 60 Queen Street West
First Canadian Place 100 King Street

The red ball is scheduled to appear:

Wednesday, June 10 at the Elm Street alley (13 & 15 Elm St.)
Friday, June 12 at Ryerson University's Podium Building (350 Victoria Street)
Saturday, June 13 at Queen Street West alley (567 and 569 Queen Street West)

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Jarrett Martineau

flagged this story as Eyewitness Report

at 12:06 on June 9th, 2009

This is an eyewitness report from the NowPublic member Tomitheos who was on the scene.

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Amy Judd

at 12:14 on June 9th, 2009

This is awesome - excellent piece! I love shows like this.

Tomitheos Linardos

at 19:14 on June 9th, 2009

thanks Amy, I managed to track it down and arrived just in time to watch the set up and then see people's reactions to it, it was fun!

Tomitheos Linardos

at 07:10 on June 10th, 2009

thank you Jarrett for the eyewitness thumbs-up and for posting a link to this article on NowPublic's Twitter, you rock!

be sure to check the schedule I posted above for the upcoming Red Ball Toronto appearance location dates in the next few days

A. Tran

at 18:56 on June 9th, 2009

The Red Ball installation is great, I hope Kurt Perschke’s RedBall Project will visit New York.

Tomitheos Linardos

at 19:48 on June 9th, 2009

thanks Pythiian1! hope you have a chance to see it New York sometime soon ; )

kate

at 09:37 on June 10th, 2009

There's a red ball curatorial theme in Luminato, what with this and the Rokeby piece!

bougieboy (not verified)

at 19:14 on June 10th, 2009

i missed it today... i drove all the way down at 7:30pm and it was not there... was it there at all today or did they take it down before i got there?

Tomitheos Linardos

at 19:28 on June 10th, 2009

thanks kate

sorry to hear that bougieboy but 7:30 pm is well after lunchtime; you can see it again at Ryerson or Queen Street by the end of the week before it bounces away