Videopoetry Vol. 1
Small Walker Press, 2020
Consisting of numerous video poems, this catalogue gives an overall understanding of LeBlanc and Dugas' intellectual creation. At the juncture of oral tradition, typography and vibrations, videopoetry is a collaborative process between a poet and an image-maker and the art of storytelling through words and moving images. In all the poems, language is generally simple and ordinary but aesthetically intellectual. In the videos, the connection between nature vs. human and human vs. objects creates a two-dimensional metaphor through the depth of visual meaning. While LeBlanc draws our attention to the uniqueness of detail and the way that ordinary objects take on altered status and meaning, Dugas asks us to consider essential truths and he does this with language.
ITEM 2020.004 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Tiempo Antico – Enrico Caruso
Homecoming, 1986
Alchemy, End of a Phase, 1987
MONTREAL A DREAM / MONTRÉAL, UN RÊVE, 1990
Des vieux acadiens / Elderly Acadians, 1990
Slices of Life , 1991
Work and Love (Episode 1)
Roundabout (Episode 2)
Headlines (Episode 3)
Wish to Dream (Episode 4)
Limits (Episode 5)
Salman’s Head, 1991
The Dahmer Tape, 1992
Precious Moments in Life, 1992
In Transit, 1993
Best Case Scenario
More Data Less Light
Typhoon or Knife Wound
I Am a Blind Memo
There But For Fortune
That Frozen Instant
The Time of The Day Matters
A Dead Zone in The Journey
The Weight of The World
The Lovers’ Gesture
Principal Dancer, 2000
Pilgrim’s Progress, 2002
The Walls Have Ears, 2002
Summerquote, 2002
DOWNTOWN, 2003
In Your Wildest Dreams
Pastimes
Splitting
Image
Watching
Nature
Easy Not Easy, 2003
Time Travel In This Moment, 2004
Greater Expectations
Ping Pong
Babbling and the Beauty of Accents
Reported
If Existence Had Wings
Life imitating Art
Futile Exercise
Identity Crisis: Medusa’s New Game
Immediacy Dominos
Missing
Le siège de leur raison
The Place of Their Spirit
MUDSC
Le sac / The Bag
Les bungalows / The Bungalows
Pitonner (le trafic)
The Traffic
Envelopper / To Wrap
La fin du monde / The End of the World
Danser (La banlieue) / The Suburb
Réchauffer / To Warm Up
Précipiter / To Rush
Cribler / To Riddle with Bullets
Couper / To Cut
Tomber 3 (Tomber) / To Fall
Disparaître
To Disappear
Couvrir / To Cover
Sursauter (Baissez-nous) / Debase Us
Animer / To Animate
Traverser (Suffire) - Suffire / Enough
Le voilier / The Sailboat
Bye Bye Three-Quarter Inch, 2004
The Renovation (also known as Ruins), 2007
Chandelier Accident, 2007
Paris grince / Paris Squeaks, 2007