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Item Details
Title: Floating Mushroom
Artist: Dennis Vance
Pictured: Gerry Gilbert
Artist: Michael de Courcy
Date: September 30, 1969
Format: Photograph [fibre based gelatin silver print]
Location: The Michael de Courcy Archive
Size: 12.70 × 10.20 cm
More Information: An electronic sound work by Dennis Vance entitled “Floating Mushroom”. “Floating Mushroom” was a floating steel form containing sound-generating equipment that responded to movement on the shore. This intervention took place at Lost Lagoon in Vancouver. L-R: Ian Ridgeway, Gerry Gilbert, Galen Ridgeway, Heidi Ridgeway, Kita Ridgeway, Dallas Selman, Dennis Vance, Glenn Toppings,. Collection of the artist.
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