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Item Details
Title: Awake in the Red Desert
Pictured: bill bissett
Date: 1968
Format: Book
Location: Vancouver Art Gallery Library
Fonds: bill bissett
Publisher: Talon, Vancouver
Size: 18.00 × 24.80 cm
More Information: Image of bill bissett and Martina Clinton at the Mandan Ghetto in Kitsilano on the back cover of Awake in the Red Desert published by Talon Press. Courtesy of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library.
Further Research: Expanded Literary PracticesRelated Items
- 01. Al Neil reading at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Michael de Courcy and Al Neil (Photograph) - 02. blewointment magazine
bill bissett and Ian Wallace (Periodical) - 03. Blew Ointment Press
bill bissett and Lenore Herb (Periodical) - 04. Art as Idea as Idea (one of four parts) from Concrete Poetry Catalogue
Alvin Balkind and Joseph Kosuth (Book) - 05. Literature - Transparent and Opaque from Concrete Poetry Catalogue
Ian Wallace (Book) - 06. blewointment magazine
Earle Birney, bill bissett, and David Frith (Periodical) - 07. Untitled Wall Poem from Concrete Poetry Catalogue
Gerry Gilbert (Book) - 08. Ray Johnson portfolio from Concrete Poetry Catalogue
Alvin Balkind, Ray Johnson, and Michael Morris (Book)
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Michael Morris (Book) - 10. Vancouver Mainland Ice and Cold Storage from Concrete Poetry Catalogue
Alvin Balkind and bill bissett (Book) - 11. "Though the Panama" from Hear Us O Lord From Heaven Thy Dwelling Place
Malcolm Lowry (Book) - 12. blewointment magazine
bill bissett (Book) - 13. Concrete Poetry Catalogue
(Book) - 14. Geodesic Dome construction on the mudflats
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 15. "No Ow Now" from USCO Hubbub
Alvin Balkind and Gerd Stern (Ephemera)
Project Sites
Discrete project sites documenting the work of specific artists and collectives in detail.
- 01Aboriginal Art in the Sixties
Curated by Marcia Crosby
Research by Roberta Kremer Designed by The Future - 02Al Neil
Curated by Glenn Alteen Designed by Archer Pechawis - 03Expanded Literary Practices
Curated by Charo Neville
and Michael Turner Designed by The Future - 04The Intermedia Catalogue
Created by Michael de Courcy
Research by Sarah Todd Designed by James Szuszkiewicz - 05Transmission Difficulties
Curated by Scott Watson Designed by Dexter Sinister
- 01Aboriginal Art in the Sixties
Essays
Essays and conversation providing a context for exploring the Project Sites and Archives.
- 01Making Indian Art “Modern”
By Marcia Crosby - 02Vancouver Cinema in the Sixties
By Zoë Druick - 03UBC in the Sixties: A Conversation
Edited by Marian Penner Bancroft - 04Siting the Banal: The Expanded Landscapes of the N.E. Thing Co.
By Nancy Shaw - 05Urban Renewal: Ghost Traps, Collage, Condos, and Squats
By Scott Watson
- 01Making Indian Art “Modern”
Video Interviews
Video interviews conducted between December 2008 and May 2009 reflecting on Vancouver’s art scene in the sixties.
- 01Ingrid Baxter with Grant Arnold
- 02Christos Dikeakos with Lorna Brown
- 03Carole Itter with Lorna Brown
- 04Gary Lee-Nova with Scott Watson