Videopoetry Vol. 2
Small Walker Press, 2020
In the second volume of Videopoetry, Dugas and LeBlanc continue raising their voices against political and social concerns, connecting the everyday with wider issues. Both locate fault lines in our society and have mined them steadily throughout their impressive joint and parallel bodies of work. In general, their work divides into a number of areas: LeBlanc's early reflective text coupled with documentary style cityscapes, or their shared real-life footage; Dugas' political anti-developer chansonnier videopoetry; travel documentary videopoetry, and the landscape-based eco-videopoems of the more recent years. Deliberation on time and place is a constant factor in their work. LeBlanc and Dugas have developed an extensive practice, combining ethics with innovative, experimental aesthetics; documentary with personal commentary. By taking a visual, temporal, and geographic trip through their shared and separate practices, we not only reencounter the politics driving world events, but discover how creation itself develops from and through time, place and personal experience.
ITEM 2020.005 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Fashion as Pa$N, 2008
Jellyfish Philosophy, 2008
Existence : Le passé et le présent/Existence: Past and Present, 2008
They Are Outlaws, 2010
Hors la loi, 2010
What We Take With Us, 2010
Ce qu’on emporte avec nous, 2010
Samoa
Red / Rouge
Animals / Animaux
Callan Park
Anxiety: Dreaming Dread / Anxiété : rêver de la peur
Goat Island
Winter’s Hold / L’emprise de l’hiver
Wagga Wagga
Kookaburra
Endlessly / Inlassablement
Bunny Boil Over
Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
Walking on Water (Downunder)
MPB Was There Then, 2011
Paper Moon, Cardboard Sea, 2011
Tablets, 2011
Hublot / Porthole, 2012
Missing Parade Notes, 2012
Missing Parade Notes (français), 2012
Évanescence / Evanescencia / Evanescence, 2012
Insomnie / Insonnia / Insomnia, 2012
Glissement, 2012
Slide, 2012
Annotation, 2012
Standard of Truth, 2013
Standard de vérité, 2013
A Trip to the Zoo, 2013
The Web of Time and Memory, 2014
Si l’argent est le symbole - lumière du jour, 2014
If Money is the Symbol - daylight, 2014
Si l’argent est le symbole - feu, 2014
If Money is the Symbol - fire, 2014
Everglades (Flow: Big Waters), 2014
Monocultural Stutter, 2015
Apples and Oranges, 2015
Cultural Flotsam, 2016
Leaving São Paulo, 2016
Where
Location
Today is Sunday
Monday Fashion
Languages and Interpretation
Journey’s End
Impossible Colors, 2016
Red (a river)
Green (what it wanted to be)
Blue (the beeps)
Yellow (the yellows)
Illumination, 2016
In Kisii, 2016
Land of Shepherds, 2016
Sablier / Sandglass, 2017
Aequilibris, 2018
Communicate With Me, 2018
Communiquez avec moi, 2018
The Discussion, 2018
Oasis, 2018
Miami Time
Remnants
Nature / Culture
Charles in the Tub
Dream 1
Dream 2
Dream 3
What Was It Like
Joe Summer
Plants and Palms
Elusive 1
Elusive 2
Inventory Reconciliation
The Shadow