About Public Sweat
Public Sweat is a fusion of art and sauna culture.
This cultural experience is inspired by sauna and global sweat bathing traditions, and their shared values of community, connection, and care. The artist-designed sweat bathing spaces simultaneously become public artworks and inclusive public spaces, and are accompanied by contemporary art installations and experiences amongst a creative sauna village and indoor lounge.
Public Sweat is the latest project from the team at Art Spin, always presenting contemporary art in unexpected spaces in the creation of unique public experiences.
About
Art Spin
The organization behind Public Sweat
Since 2009, Art Spin has been activating decommissioned venues and unique public spaces to produce ephemeral projects, curated exhibitions, and bicycle-led art tours. Programming site-specifically, across disciplines in alternative spaces is at the core of their curatorial methodology and their desire to make audience experiences more engaging while reimagining the possibilities of public art in the process.
Art Spin is behind some of Toronto’s most exciting contemporary art events including the in/future festival at Ontario place in 2016 and the downtown exhibition area for Nuit Blanche in 2019, along with a whole host of projects and exhibitions; Holding Patterns, the Tower Automotive Building Exhibition and the Kajama tall-ship art tour - to name but a few.
Our Team
Layne Hinton, Co-Director & Co-Curator
Rui Pimenta, Co-Director & Co-Curator
Chris Foster, Co-Director & Technical Director
