FAAS 8 : HASZARD

[May 12 – 16 2026]
Parked in front of the gallery, the GNO will close Larch Street between Durham and Elgin for a week of site-specific art focused on the theme of chance.

‘Hasard’ in French refers to an unpredictable, fortuitous event with no known cause or a force acting randomly, often linked to luck or fate, implying an absence of plan or control. It can be an unexpected coincidence (by chance), logical unpredictability (in games), or a philosophical concept of unnecessary causality.

‘Hazard‘ is an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another. As a verb, it means to take a risk, especially for the chance of a good return. You might hazard your chances at the roulette table or hazard a guess – that is, risk making a guess when you aren’t certain.

Big buses, flatbeds, trucks, cars, wrecks… the vehicles will serve as a canvas to convey multiple perspectives. Set up and developed over the course of a week, artists and the public will come together bumper to bumper for these spontaneous encounters. Beep beep! Let’s go for a joy ride! Turn on your hazard lights!

By bringing artistic experimentation directly into shared urban spaces, FAAS 8 reimagines everyday infrastructure as a place of connection, curiosity and collective imagination.