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Making Contact:
The Easter Be-In
Stanley Park, 1968

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/MAKING_CONTACT/

SUPER SUMMER '77
For the artist, a movie camera provides an opportunity to record those instances when we begin to look outward . . .

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/SUPER_SUMMER_77/

Michael de Courcy's Vancouver T-Shirt Open
A community event and public art work, August 20th, 1978

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/T-SHIRT_OPEN/

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.

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/They_All_Turned_White/

B.C. Almanac(h) C-B 1970
An anthology of 15 artists' books of photographs.
National Film Board Stills Gallery, Ottawa, November 1970.

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/BC-ALMANAC/

THE BIG BREAK / Gerry Gilbert
THE BIG BREAK / Gerry Gilbert is a documentary portrait of Vancouver poet, artist and performer Gerry Gilbert.

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/THE_BIG_BREAK/

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.

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/THE_CAMERA/

PULP
An Account of the Newsprint, Corrugated Cardboard, and Box Art Created in Vancouver Between 1968 and 1972

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/PULP/

it's about time
The artist documents the analogue materials of his darkroom.
2015

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/it-s_about_time/

Four Mapping Projects
1970 - 1974

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/four-mapping-projects/

By Air
Montreal > Vancouver
November 28, 1969

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/by_air

2100 block - Arbutus Street, Vancouver
June 8th, 1971

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/2100_block_Arbutus/

BACKGROUND / VANCOUVER
The portrait of a city.

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/background-vancouver/

DEAD AND BURIED
What became of the cemetery at Woodlands?

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/dead_and_buried/

an INTERMEDIATE REVOLUTION
a video montage of Intermedia archival material with music by the Al Neil Trio.

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/INTERMEDIATE_REVOLUTION/

The ARTIST - A work in progress
the artist becomes his own subject.

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/the_artist/

Two Mountain Views
lion shaped peaks moving and vanishing in and around the architecture of the city.

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/two_mountain_views/

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. . ."

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/urban_wilderness/

the intermedia catalogue
a five-year project to document Intermedia's art and artists.

http://intermedia.vancouverartinthesixties.com/

Jazz in the Cellar
"The original Cellar Club was something just short of a miracle!!"

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/jazz_in_the_cellar/

HIPPIE VANCOUVER 1967
a dynamic and increasingly uncompromising youth culture...

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/hippie/

INTERMEDIA 1967
collaborations

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/intermedia/

ASYLUM:
a long, last look at woodlands

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/asylum/

montreal journal:
a photographic document of expo67 from a workers perspective

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/montrealjournal/

The 4H Club at the Pacific National Exhibition:
An album of pictures from the summer of 2001

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/4h/

VENDORS:
a photographic album

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/vendors/

Voice: Roy Kiyooka
a film

http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/roy_kiyooka/