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A work in progress...
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/art_of_meeting/ |
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Moving Pictures
Vancouver to Ottawa November 7 - 13, 1970
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/MOVING-PICTURES/ |
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135A Street Unsheltered — Surrey, Canada
Winter on the Whalley Strip Encampment— Nine Views, October, 2018 to April, 2019.
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/135a_Street_-_Unsheltered/ |
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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.
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/Roy_Kiyooka_VOICE/ |
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![Making Contact: The Easter Be-In, Stanley Park, 1968](graphics/badge-FACTORY-FLORA.jpg) |
FACTORY FLORA:
Book One: twenty-four archival pigment prints
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/FACTORY_FLORA/ |
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Looking at the source:
This 2018 work reframes a performance created by choreographer/dancer/artist Helen Goodwin in 1968 https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/looking-at-the-source/ |
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Making Contact:
The Easter Be-In
Stanley Park, 1968
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/MAKING_CONTACT/ |
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![SUPER SUMMER '77](graphics/badge_SUPER-SUMMER-77.jpg) |
SUPER SUMMER '77
For the artist, a movie camera provides an opportunity to record those instances when we begin to look outward . . .
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/SUPER_SUMMER_77/ |
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![Michael de Courcy's Vancouver T-Shirt Open - 1978](graphics/badge_TSHIRT-OPEN.jpg) |
Michael de Courcy's Vancouver T-Shirt Open
A community event and public art work, August 20th, 1978
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/T-SHIRT_OPEN/ |
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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.
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/They_All_Turned_White/ |
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![B.C. Almanac(h) C-B 1970](graphics/badge_BC-ALMANAC.jpg) |
B.C. Almanac(h) C-B 1970
An anthology of 15 artists' books of photographs.
National Film Board Stills Gallery, Ottawa, November 1970.
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/BC-ALMANAC/ |
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![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.](graphics/badge_BIGBREAK.jpg) |
THE BIG BREAK / Gerry Gilbert
THE BIG BREAK / Gerry Gilbert is a documentary portrait of Vancouver poet, artist and performer Gerry Gilbert.
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/THE_BIG_BREAK/ |
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![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.](graphics/badge_THE_CAMERA.jpg) |
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.
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/THE_CAMERA/ |
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![PULP - An Account of the Newsprint, Corrugated Cardboard, and Box Art Created in Vancouver Between 1968 and 1972](graphics/badge_PULP.jpg) |
PULP
An Account of the Newsprint, Corrugated Cardboard, and Box Art Created in Vancouver Between 1968 and 1972
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/PULP/ |
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![it's about time - The artist documents the analogue materials of his darkroom.](graphics/badge_IAT.jpg) |
it's about time
The artist documents the analogue materials of his darkroom.
2015
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/it-s_about_time/ |
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Four Mapping Projects
1970 - 1974
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/four-mapping-projects/ |
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By Air
Montreal > Vancouver
November 28, 1969
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/by_air |
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2100 block - Arbutus Street, Vancouver
June 8th, 1971
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/2100_block_Arbutus/ |
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BACKGROUND / VANCOUVER
The portrait of a city.
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/background-vancouver/ |
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DEAD AND BURIED
What became of the cemetery at Woodlands?
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/dead_and_buried/ |
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an INTERMEDIATE REVOLUTION
a video montage of Intermedia archival material with music by the Al Neil Trio.
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/INTERMEDIATE_REVOLUTION/ |
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The ARTIST - A work in progress
the artist becomes his own subject.
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/the_artist/ |
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Two Mountain Views
lion shaped peaks moving
and vanishing in and around the architecture of the city.
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/two_mountain_views/ |
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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. . ."
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/urban_wilderness/ |
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the intermedia catalogue
a five-year project to document Intermedia's art and artists.
http://intermedia.vancouverartinthesixties.com/ |
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Jazz in the Cellar
"The original Cellar Club was something just short of a miracle!!"
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/jazz_in_the_cellar/ |
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HIPPIE VANCOUVER 1967
a dynamic and increasingly uncompromising youth culture...
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/hippie/ |
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INTERMEDIA 1967
collaborations
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/intermedia/ |
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ASYLUM:
a long, last look at woodlands
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/asylum/ |
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montreal journal:
a photographic document of expo67 from a workers perspective
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/montrealjournal/ |
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The 4H Club at the Pacific National Exhibition:
An album of pictures from the summer of 2001
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/4h/ |
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VENDORS:
a photographic album
https://www.michaeldecourcy.com/vendors/ |
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