MAY 17 - Saturday (to May 24)
(Visual Arts)  "How To Feed A Piano" - A Project by David Khang with Candice Hopkins exhibition

Curated by Makiko Hara

Performance/Opening: Friday, May 16, 8:00pm / Doors open: 7:30pm
Tickets: Students $5/ Centre A members $5/ General public $10
Exhibition: Saturday, May 17 - Saturday, May 24
   
Panel Discussion: Wednesday, May 21, 7pm
Panelists: Candice Hopkins, Larissa Lai, Rinaldo Walcott

Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
2 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1G6
Hours: Tue - Sat, 11am - 6pm
Tel: 604-683-8326   
www.centrea.org     info@centrea.org

"How To Feed A Piano" is the final installment of a performance tryptich based on La Monte Young's 
"Compositions" (1960) conceptualized by David Khang.  A piano on stage will be "fed hay and water," 
while accompanied by the pianists. The piano then becomes the portal through which the artist encounters 
a horse. The horse, the horserider, and the artist become one "drawing" unit on a large canvas, 
a gesture that deliberately evokes Yves Klein's Anthropométrie (1960). The horserider is not a classic 
"Marlboro Man" cowboy, but rather, an experienced horsewoman from a First Nation - in effect, 
an "Indian Cowgirl."  These inversions along multiple axes exemplify how Young's minimalist compositions 
become "readymade" departure points for divergent readings. Rather than attempting to execute Fluxus 
performances with historical verity (is this even possible?), the La Monte Young Project Series is a way to  
re-imagine their poetic and political potentials through tangential and hyperbolic readings.

This project is part of the Asian Heritage Month .