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  1. Michael de Courcy, Mushroom Festival, 1969
Item Details

Title: Mushroom Festival

Artist: Michael de Courcy

Date: December 31, 1969

Format: Photograph [fibre based gelatin silver print]

Location: The Michael de Courcy Archive

Size: 12.70 × 10.20 cm

More Information: The mushroom festival was an event that centered raising the roof at Mick Henry’s new ceramic studio Robert’s Creek. Intermedia members harvested wild mushrooms and prepared a communal meal. The ceramics studio was on a communal piece of rural land close to Vancouver.  Collection of the artist.

Further Research: The Intermedia Catalogue
  1. 09. Bob Arnold fabricating an installation for Electrical Connection
    Bob "Box" Arnold and Michael de Courcy (Photograph)
  2. 10. Participants at the Trips Festival
    Jack Dale (Photograph)
  3. 11. Michael McClure reading at the Trips Festival
    Jack Dale and Michael McClure (Photograph)
  4. 12. Michael McClure reading at the Trips Festival
    Jack Dale and Michael McClure (Photograph)
  5. 13. Michael McClure reading at the Trips Festival
    Jack Dale and Michael McClure (Photograph)
  6. 14. Participant at the Trips Festival
    Jack Dale (Photograph)
  7. 15. Flashing Sculpture Clicks: Poet Makes Contact With Love, Independent Journal, October 29, 1963
    Gerd Stern (Ephemera)