Open wide

Involving over 100 people, the duo Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan installation highlights the cultural diversity in the area around the People’s Park in Graz, Austria.

This year, Steirischer Herbst — Festival of New Art — is proclaiming an Arrival Zone in the area around the Volksgarten Pavilion in the Volksgarten/People’s Park, the existing pavilion building in a prominent position on the edge of the park is usually inhabited by a political party but it has been vacated and given way to a venues for events with the local surrounding community.

Arrive. Stay. Depart. Return. Become visible. Like hardly any other district, the Annenviertel is characterised by the coming and going of people of different origins.

In “Open Wide”, Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan installation in urban space highlights the cultural diversity in this part of the city. Involving over 100 people from Graz and giving them a sense of belonging and ownership, they have generated a new language of patterns for the steirischer herbst venues.

Morag Myerscough & Luke Morgan, Open wide – Arrival Zone & Markers, installation view, Graz, 2016

Morag Myerscough & Luke Morgan, Open wide – Arrival Zone & Markers, installation view, Graz, 2016

Morag Myerscough & Luke Morgan, Open wide – Arrival Zone & Markers, installation view, Graz, 2016

Morag Myerscough & Luke Morgan, Open wide – Arrival Zone & Markers, installation view, Graz, 2016

Morag Myerscough & Luke Morgan, Open wide – Arrival Zone & Markers, patterns

Morag Myerscough & Luke Morgan, Open wide – Arrival Zone & Markers, workshop, Graz, 2016

Morag Myerscough & Luke Morgan, Open wide – Arrival Zone & Markers, workshop, Graz, 2016

until 16 October 2016
Morag Myerscough & Luke Morgan, Open wide – Arrival Zone & Markers
Steirischer Herbst
Orpheum & Volksgarten-Pavillion
Graz

Open wide

Involving over 100 people, the duo Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan installation highlights the cultural diversity in the area around the People’s Park in Graz, Austria.

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