Performance: Mike Bourscheid

Join Vancouver-based artist Mike Bourscheid for a special presentation of Ledgers (2019), a new performance created in response to Erwin Wurm’s sculptural installation at Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite.

Ledgers is a vocal music composition based on contemporary madrigals. Throughout the performance, three singers dressed in costumes inspired by industrial workwear respond to the surrounding urban landscape with their voices and bodies. The singers use their costumes and movements to block, direct and support their collective endeavour—the completion of the song.

Commissioned by the Vancouver Art Gallery, Ledgers is choreographed by Mike Bourscheid and composed by Robyn Jacob. Lyrics are written by Vanessa Brown and Mike Bourscheid and performed by Emily Cheung, Hilary Ison and Emily Millard.

Free and open to the public.

Bourscheid will also present an adapted version of Ledgers at the Gallery later in the evening as part of FUSE: Resonances.

About the Artist
Born in Luxembourg, Mike Bourscheid is currently based in Vancouver. In 2017, he represented Luxembourg at the 57th Venice Biennale. Recent shows include Haverford Centre Philadelphia (USA), Kunstverein Braunschweig (Germany), Nanaimo Art Gallery (Canada) and Casino Luxembourg-Forum d’art contemporain (Luxembourg). His upcoming projects include a new performance work in collaboration with Justine Chambers at Western Front, a solo exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery, and a group exhibition at the MNHA Luxembourg.