Special Events
Offsite: Erwin Wurm Opening Reception
Thu Sep 19, 2019 | 6 PM - 7:30 PM
Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite | 1100 W Georgia Street
Erwin Wurm
Big Disobedience, 2016 (installation view, Collins Park, Miami Beach, 2016)
aluminum, paint
Courtesy of the Artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong and Seoul
Photo: Daniel Portnoy
Join us for the opening of Offsite: Erwin Wurm, the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series.
Free and open to the public.
At 6:30 PM, local artist Mike Bourscheid will present Ledgers (2019), a new performance in response Wurm’s sculptural installation.
Ledgers is a vocal music composition based on contemporary madrigals. Three singers dressed in costumes inspired by industrial workwear respond to the surrounding urban landscape with their voices and bodies. Throughout the performance, 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.
Additional performance times will be added throughout the exhibition.