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Waterfront Toronto is seeking proposals from professional artists or artist teams in Canada to create a temporary floating artwork for Harbour Square Park Basin, to be installed during summer 2027.
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Get matched →Waterfront Toronto is seeking to commission a professional artist or artist team to create a temporary floating artwork for Harbour Square Park Basin, for installation during summer 2027. The artwork will activate the basin by engaging with the local community and visitors to the waterfront.
This RFP is open to artists and artist teams in Canada with relevant experience and expertise as practicing professional artists. Waterfront Toronto requires that artists use Ontario-based contractors and strongly encourages the use of local subcontractors.
Waterfront Toronto invites artists to explore the creative possibilities of scale and water through a bold and unexpected floating artwork. The theme is not limited to physical size; scale may also be emotional, cultural, historical or temporal. Proposals are invited to begin with a familiar form, object, story or experience and transform it through scale, context and its relationship to water. Water should be considered as more than the location or platform for the artwork, functioning as a surface that reflects, a force that creates movement, or a changing field of light and colour.
The total commissioning budget for this project is $100,000 + HST. This fee includes all expenses related to Artist fees, preparation and submission of drawings and renderings, coordination and technical consultations, permits, preparation of installation documents, anchoring plan, meetings and site visits, travel, insurance as required by Waterfront Toronto ($2M professional liability insurance and $5M commercial general liability insurance is required for water installations), rental of studio and storage space, materials, shipping, delivery to site, signage, installation and removal, maintenance manual and artist statement for completed work. Waterfront Toronto will not be responsible for any additional costs.
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