Archive / Poetry Front: Casting an Oracle
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Item Details
Title: Poetry Front: Casting an Oracle
Artist: Michael de Courcy
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 23: Poets perform at the Dome Show’s Bring a Poet afternoon poetry event. This event was organized by Intermedia’s Poetry Front group. Collection of the artist.
Further Research: The Intermedia CatalogueRelated Items
- 01. Crown Zellerbach Canada Meeting
Michael de Courcy and Henry Rappaport (Photograph) - 02. Box Prototypes
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 03. Vancouver Art Gallery self-publishing workshop
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 04. Sound Central
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 05. Poetry Front: Poet and group in aluminum sheet dome
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 06. Poetry Front: Electronic Poetry Reading
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 07. Poets Chanting at the Dome Show
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 08. Box Prototypes
Michael de Courcy (Photograph)
More Related Items
- 09. Bring a Poet
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 10. blewointment magazine
bill bissett (Book) - 11. Ray Johnson portfolio from Concrete Poetry Catalogue
Alvin Balkind, Ray Johnson, and Michael Morris (Book) - 12. Bazaar Day - Participants and Goods
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 13. Bob Arnold fabricating an installation for Electrical Connection
Bob "Box" Arnold and Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 14. Michael de Courcy's "Intermedia Room" at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 15. Literature - Transparent and Opaque from Concrete Poetry Catalogue
Ian Wallace (Book)
Project Sites
Discrete project sites documenting the work of specific artists and collectives in detail.
- 01Aboriginal Art in the Sixties
Curated by Marcia Crosby
Research by Roberta Kremer Designed by The Future - 02Al Neil
Curated by Glenn Alteen Designed by Archer Pechawis - 03Expanded Literary Practices
Curated by Charo Neville
and Michael Turner Designed by The Future - 04The Intermedia Catalogue
Created by Michael de Courcy
Research by Sarah Todd Designed by James Szuszkiewicz - 05Transmission Difficulties
Curated by Scott Watson Designed by Dexter Sinister
- 01Aboriginal Art in the Sixties
Essays
Essays and conversation providing a context for exploring the Project Sites and Archives.
- 01Making Indian Art “Modern”
By Marcia Crosby - 02Vancouver Cinema in the Sixties
By Zoë Druick - 03UBC in the Sixties: A Conversation
Edited by Marian Penner Bancroft - 04Siting the Banal: The Expanded Landscapes of the N.E. Thing Co.
By Nancy Shaw - 05Urban Renewal: Ghost Traps, Collage, Condos, and Squats
By Scott Watson
- 01Making Indian Art “Modern”
Video Interviews
Video interviews conducted between December 2008 and May 2009 reflecting on Vancouver’s art scene in the sixties.
- 01Ingrid Baxter with Grant Arnold
- 02Christos Dikeakos with Lorna Brown
- 03Carole Itter with Lorna Brown
- 04Gary Lee-Nova with Scott Watson