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Item Details
Title: Poetry Front: Poetry Play in large dome
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. Poets Chanting at the Dome Show
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 04. Poetry Front: Electronic Poetry Reading
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 05. Poetry Front: Poet and group in aluminum sheet dome
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 06. Vancouver Art Gallery self-publishing workshop
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 07. Bring a Poet
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 08. Michael de Courcy's "Intermedia Room" at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Michael de Courcy (Photograph)
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- 09. Poets entering gallery
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 10. Box Prototypes
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 11. Dance Loops
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 12. Poetry Front: concrete poetry
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 13. Poetry Front: Casting an Oracle
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 14. Poet crawling down stairs
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 15. Bob Arnold fabricating an installation for Electrical Connection
Bob "Box" Arnold and Michael de Courcy (Photograph)
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Curated by Marcia Crosby
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and Michael Turner Designed by The Future - 04The Intermedia Catalogue
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