Archive / Fire Piece

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  1. Outside of the Vancouver Art Gallery at the Dome Show opening, Michael de Courcy, 1970
Item Details

Title: Fire Piece

Artist: Michael de Courcy

Artist: Jone Pane (Joan Payne)

Date: March 31, 1970

Format: Photograph [fibre based gelatin silver print]

Location: The Michael de Courcy Archive

Size: 12.70 × 10.20 cm

More Information: The Dome Show was Intermedia’s third and final exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery taking place from May 19th- May 31st 1970. The unifying structure of The Dome Show was the geodesic dome. Intermedia members were invited to build a dome individually or communally. A variety of art events and community events took place in the gallery and in the geodesic domes. May 19th: Joan Payne performs Fire Piece on the front stairs of the Vancouver Art Gallery at the opening of The Dome Show. Collection of the artist.

Further Research: The Intermedia Catalogue
  1. 09. Geodesic Dome construction in a vacant lot
    Michael de Courcy (Photograph)
  2. 10. Dome Show meeting at Intermedia
    Judith Copithorne, Michael de Courcy, Gathie Falk, Maxine Gadd, Glenn Lewis, Gordon Payne, David Rimmer, and Ed Varney (Photograph)
  3. 11. Dome Show meeting at Intermedia
    Werner Aellen, Michael de Courcy, Helen Goodwin, Henry Rappaport, and Dennis Vance (Photograph)
  4. 12. Steel Mushrooms
    Gary Lee-Nova (Film)
  5. 13. City Feast - Documentation Room
    Michael de Courcy (Photograph)
  6. 14. Bob Arnold fabricating an installation for Electrical Connection
    Bob "Box" Arnold and Michael de Courcy (Photograph)
  7. 15. Michael de Courcy's "Intermedia Room" at the Vancouver Art Gallery
    Michael de Courcy (Photograph)