The Disco Fallout Shelter in Toronto's Sculpture Garden
…there goes the neighbourhood!
In actual fact, it’s the latest installment for Toronto’s Sculpture Garden in downtown King East. This particular artistic iteration—by Toronto/Vancouver-based artist collective Instant Coffee—is named the Disco Fallout Shelter (DFS) and is meant to represent “a glitzed-up and powder coated re-articulation of these prolific and often makeshift mid-twentieth century places built from fear.”
As you approach the shelter, you see a video screen showing images of the (supposed) people inside, doing whatever they would normally do should the world fall under the thrall of a nuclear winter. Walking towards the DSF along the bright yellow path, you hear the deep bass sound of dance music emanating from the two sparkling doors to the shelter.
It’s really quite conspicuous as I walk by the garden on the way to work, which it’s supposed to be, I guess. It is art after all.
I wonder if I’ll see Frodo emerge one day, dressed in ’80s disco spandex?
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