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Bridge Walk a.k.a. The Return of Malcolm Lowry

Artist/Creator
Tom Burrows (Creator)
ID #
41.4.09
Date
[October 15, 1970]
Level of Description
File

Scope & Content

File consists of the original documentation for Tom Burrows' performance work Bridge Walk a.k.a. The Return of Malcolm Lowry, in which he was painted in silver body paint and walked across the Second Narrows Bridge in North Vancouver at rush hour.

The performance was a statement on Malcolm Lowry's squatter’s cabin on the north shore's Maple Wood tidal flats, which was bulldozed by the same municipal employee in the 1950s that would later burn Burrows' self-built cabin in December 1971.

File includes photographs of the walk and two handwritten cards noting the media (sculptor, silver body paint, and rush hour), the site (Second Narrows Bridge and "the pedestrian walk as a mile long pedestal"), and attendance (calculated at 2,250 viewers). Also includes some additional textual materials and photocopied images.

Physical Description

Physical Extent
4 photographs : col. prints ; 35.5 x 27.5 cm or smaller. – 0.5 cm of textual records
Material Type
Textual record, Graphic material

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