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A work in progress...
Moving Pictures
Vancouver to Ottawa November 7 - 13, 1970
135A Street Unsheltered — Surrey, Canada
Winter on the Whalley Strip Encampment— Nine Views, October, 2018 to April, 2019.
Roy Kiyooka VOICE
Collaborating with friends, Roy continued to define his identity as an artist, pursuing what he referred to as his own particular voice.
FACTORY FLORA:
Book One: twenty-four archival pigment prints
Looking at the source:
This 2018 work reframes a performance created by choreographer/dancer/artist Helen Goodwin in 1968
Making Contact:
The Easter Be-In
Stanley Park, 1968
SUPER SUMMER '77
For the artist, a movie camera provides an opportunity to record those instances when we begin to look outward . . .
Michael de Courcy's Vancouver T-Shirt Open
A community event and public art work, August 20th, 1978
They All Turned White, 2015
For two weeks in September I collaborated in a Brief Encounters project with three other artists, mostly strangers to each other.
B.C. Almanac(h) C-B 1970
An anthology of 15 artists' books of photographs.
National Film Board Stills Gallery, Ottawa, November 1970.
THE BIG BREAK / Gerry Gilbert
THE BIG BREAK / Gerry Gilbert is a documentary portrait of Vancouver poet, artist and performer Gerry Gilbert.
THE CAMERA
The Camera was performed in an enclosed courtyard at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago under a blanket of clouds on a cold and snowy day in February 1972.
PULP
An Account of the Newsprint, Corrugated Cardboard, and Box Art Created in Vancouver Between 1968 and 1972
it's about time
The artist documents the analogue materials of his darkroom.
2015
Four Mapping Projects
1970 - 1974
By Air
Montreal > Vancouver
November 28, 1969
2100 block - Arbutus Street, Vancouver
June 8th, 1971
BACKGROUND / VANCOUVER
The portrait of a city.
DEAD AND BURIED
What became of the cemetery at Woodlands?
an INTERMEDIATE REVOLUTION
a video montage of Intermedia archival material with music by the Al Neil Trio.
The ARTIST - A work in progress
the artist becomes his own subject.
Two Mountain Views
lion shaped peaks moving
and vanishing in and around the architecture of the city.
GREETINGS FROM THE URBAN WILDERNESS
"Barry and Yaily decide to take a leisurely walk along The Explorers Trail and we find them just finishing their lunch at the Uncontrolled Bamboo Grove. . ."
the intermedia catalogue
a five-year project to document Intermedia's art and artists.
Jazz in the Cellar
"The original Cellar Club was something just short of a miracle!!"
HIPPIE VANCOUVER 1967
a dynamic and increasingly uncompromising youth culture...
INTERMEDIA 1967
collaborations
ASYLUM:
a long, last look at woodlands
montreal journal:
a photographic document of expo67 from a workers perspective
The 4H Club at the Pacific National Exhibition:
An album of pictures from the summer of 2001
VENDORS:
a photographic album