PERFORMANCES + EVENTS + COLLABORATIONS
2019 A Talk with Hank Bull on my work at Franc Gallery, in connection to exhibition: “Alleyways”
2017 Gave talk at Vancouver Art Gallery in connection to “Ambiguous Pleasures” exhibition
2016 Discussed my work in a talk at Franc Gallery, Vancouver, “Glenn Lewis – Form Being Foreseen, Pots of Place”,
2014 Performance with 8 volunteers, The New York Corres Sponge Dance School Swim Event with the Shark Fin Bathing Caps, Hart House Pool, Toronto
2015 Participated with others in discussion of my work at the Wakayama Museum, Tokyo
2015 Ceramic residency at the Togei Center, Bizen, Japan (3 months)
2014 Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Ceramic Studies, Shigaraki, Japan (3 months)
2014 He did a lecture with Luis Jacob at the Stedelijk Museum and a performance with 8 swimmers using the Shark Fin Bathing Caps at Mirandabaad, Amsterdam (in connection with exhibition at the Kunstverein Amsterdam).
2014 Artist-in-Residence in Ceramics at Comosun College, Victoria, BC
2013 Artist-in-Residence at Leach Pottery and Museum, 2 weeks, St. Ives, Cornwall
2013 Presented poems and slides of Song Bowls for East Hastings Street in David Wisdom’s “Slide Show” event at Vancouver Art Gallery
2013 Participated on panel discussion with Michael Decourcy and Grant Arnold on “Background Vancouver” in exhibition “Background/This Place/Vancouver”,
Grunt Gallery, May 14
2012 Gave presentation on panel The West Coast and Conceptualism: Performance Art, in relation to exhibition “Traffic”, VAG
2011 Presented illustrated lecture “Fifty Years in Fifty Minutes” at Vancouver Art Gallery, including digital photos and video
2011 Background Vancouver from 1972 re-presents artist’s views of Vancouver on Michael De Courcy website, http://www.michaeldecourcy.com/background-vancouver/project.htm
2010 Performed 1968 work “400 Yards of Paper in a Square” at Spanish Banks, Vancouver, an event during solo show, “Flakey”, Presentation House, N. Vancouver
2010 Performed “Kim Chi”, opening performance at my exhibition, Flakey, Presentation House Gallery, N. Vancouver, brochure, eBook catalogue 2011
2010 Conceived, curated and performed in “Procession of Performing Circles”, a large event, part of “Bright Light”, a coalition of 14 arts organizations doing events in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, funded by the City of Vancouver, brochure
- Performance residency and performed 3 part work, “A Sweeping Statement”, at 7a11d International Performance Festival, Toronto, catalogue
2007 Panel member, “History Panel: Vancouver Performance Art History”, part of LIVE 2007 Performance Art Biennale, Emily Carr Institute
2007 Performed “Toulouse Lautrec” at gala event for LIVE 2007 Performance Art Biennale, Vancouver
2007 Video screening, “The New York Corres Sponge Dance School of Vancouver at the Blue Horizons”, part of “Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Aug. 25, catalogue
2007 Performed on the street in Aix-en-Provence, France, dressed as Cézanne, washing his hands in the 27 fountains of Aix, “I Won’t Take Your Hand Monsieur Manet, I Haven’t Washed in Eight Days”
2001 Performance, “Mondo Artie #6070”, opening performance of “Vancouver Performance Art Biennial”, organized by grunt gallery, a performance about the history of performance in Vancouver in the 60’s and 70’s, 18 performers, Vancouver Art Gallery
1999 Film screening/Performance, “Forest Industry” film, part of “Making it New”, Art Gallery of Windsor
1999 “Japanese Pickle”, video/performance, 1969, part of “Reinventing the Diva – Spotlight on the Western Front”, Images Film & Video Festival, Toronto
1993 “F. Scott Fitzgerald Tea Reunion”, performance during solo exhibition, Burnaby Art Gallery
1993 Artist in residence, Western Front Media Arts, Vancouver. Worked on computer graphics to photographic output
1992 Designed wildlife garden on Manitoba St. for Vancouver Parks Board, but design not used.
1991 Performed in video, “Legal Memory” by Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak
1985 Performed in “Corpus Colossus”, Canadian Shadow Players at Muestra Internacional de Teatro, Valladolid, Spain; Riviera Remont Theatre, Warsaw; Mucsarnok Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest; Kijkhuis, Den Haag; Holland Festival, Belview Theatre, Amsterdam; Western Front, Vancouver
1984 Panel member on “Regionalism and Internationalism” at the “Warehouse Show”, Vancouver
1983 Co-production of video tape with Canadian Shadow Players, “Canadian Shadows”, Western Front Video, Vancouver
1983 Performed in “Akanada”, Canadian Shadow Players, “Okanada” exhibition, Academie der Kunste, Berlin;Galerie St.Barbara, Hall, Austria; Humi Gumi, Lienz, Austria; Music Gallery, Toronto; National Gallery, Ottawa; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Catalogue
1982 Performed in “Akanada”, Canadian Shadow Players, Western Front, Vancouver
1980 Performed as one of the judges in Anna Banana’s “Banana Olympics”, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, B.C.
1980 Performed in Eric Metcalfe’s video production, “Crime Time Comix”
1979 Performed in Hank Bull’s production, “Saint Ayatolla”, Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver
- Video screening, “We All Sing the Same Song”, Video Free America, San Francisco
1978 Performed in “Visa Vis”, Canadian Shadow Players, Open Space, Victoria; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Carleton University, Ottawa; Art Gallery of Greater Hamilton, Hamilton, Ont.; Western Front, Vancouver
1978 Produced video, “We All Sing the Same Song”, Western Front Video Production
1978 Video screening, “We All Sing the Same Song” at the “Video Open”, Artons, Calgary
1978 Performed in “Visa Vis”, Canadian Shadow Players, Music Gallery, Toronto; Vehicule, Montreal
1977 Performance, “Three Pygmy Arias”, Pumps, Vancouver
1976 Performed in cast of radio play, “Habitart or How to Live With Your Just Desserts”, Vancouver Art Gallery
1975 Performed in cast of radio play, “Murder in the Fog”, A Space, Toronto
1975 Reading from “Mondo Artie” scripts, A Space, Toronto
1975 Performed in Dana Atchley’s “Ace Space Show”, Western Front, Vancouver
1975 Performed in cast of radio play, “A Bite Tonight”, Western Front, Vancouver
1975 Performed in cast of “Amy Vanderbilt Valentine Debutant Ball”, Western Front, Vancouver
1974 Performed in cast of radio play, A Clear Cut Case”, Western Front, Vancouver
1974 Performed in band for Mr. Peanut’s campaign for Mayor of Vancouver
1974 Performed in cast of radio play at “Video BAG Show”, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C.
1974 Performance, “Chinese Rice Garden”, A Space, Toronto. Video document
1974 Performance, “Hitler” at opening of Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1974 Performance and organizer, B.C. Open Art Race”, part of C.B.C.T.V. “Access Series”, shown nationally
1974 Performance, “Hitler” for “Towers Beach Show”, U.B.C. Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver
1974 Performed as Hitler in Dana Atchley’s “Ace Space Show”, Western Front, Vancouver
1973 Wrote and performed as butler in F Scott Fitzgerald Tea
1973 Performed as one of the M.C.’s, “Hollywood Decca Dance and Art’s Birthday”, Elks Building, Los Angeles. Produced by Image Bank, General Idea, Lowell Darling, Willoughby Sharp and others Script, video, film
1973 Performed with Western Front group for Vancouver Art Gallery’s “Pacific Vibrations”, Western Front, Vancouver
1973 Performed in Evelyn Roth’s “Black and White Tennis”, Vancouver Art Gallery’s “Pacific Vibrations”
1973 Performed in “German T.V. Dinner” for German T.V. network directed by Dr. W. von Bonin, Western Front, Vancouver
1972 – 73 Weekly swimming meetings of the New York Corres Sponge Dance School of Vancouver wearing shark fin bathing caps at the Vancouver Aquatic Centre
1970 – 72 Participated in international correspondence art activity with Image Bank, New York Correspondence School (Ray Johnson), Chicken Bank, Bum Bank, Fanzini, General Idea, Fat City School of Finds Arts, Dadaland, Max Ernst Fan Club, Ant Farm, N.W. Mounted Valise, Ace Space Co. and many others
1972 Event, “N.Y. Corres Sponge Dance School of Vancouver Food Meeting”, Food Restaurant, New York City
1972 Performance, “Forest Industry” film, part of Vancouver – Halifax Exchange, Nova Scotia College of Art, Halifax, co-ordinator of Vancouver contribution
1971 Performance, “A Performance (Donut Holes)”, Vancouver Art Gallery
1971 Film screening, “Forest Industry”, Millenium, New York City
1970 Film performance/screening, “Forest Industry”, Vancouver Art Gallery
1970 Performance, “Taping of the International Art Critics”, Vancouver Art Gallery. Co-op work with Michael Morris
1970 Performance of “4 Intersections” films. Also co-ordinator, “Intermedia Dome Exhibition and Nine Evenings of Performances”,Vancouver Art Gallery
1970 Performance, “Simulation for New York City, Canadian Pacific”, Loeb Student Centre, New York University
1970 Performance, “Taping Pieces”, on the street, New Westminster
1970 Performance, “Simulation for Vancouver”, Vancouver Art Gallery
1969 Installation/Performance, “Ribbon Run”, 300 ft blue tape throughout Gallery, leading to a room divided by the blue tape, one half covered with white stucco, at Intermedia Exhibition, “Electrial Connection”, Vancouver Art Gallery
1969 Performance, “Rice Krispee Piece”, Arts Club, Vancouver
1969 Performance, “400 Yards of Burned Paper in a Square”, University of Calgary campus
- Video performance, “Japanese Pickled Cabbage” at New Era Social Club, one of the first-ever video performance works.
1969 Performance, “Canadian Pacific”, Vancouver Art Gallery; Mills College, Oakland; Old Music Conservatory, Los Angeles. Tour with Yvonne Rainer
1969 Performance, “Canadian Pacific” in “Intermedia Exhibition – Electrical Connection”, Vancouver Art Gallery
1969 Performance, “Rice Krispie Piece” and “Cards on the Floor”, Festival of the Arts, U.B.C., Vancouver
1968 Performance, “Rice krispie Piece”, Intermedia event, Beatty St., Vancouver
1968 Performance, “Flour Piece”, Deborah Hay workshop, Vancouver Art Gallery