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Basic
Bruegel -
Spring 2005
Basic Bruegel is a site that hosts projects by Daniel
Dugas and Valerie LeBlanc. The idea behind the creation of this new site is
to create a repository of work that is easily accessible. It contains a mix
of free downloads and items to purchase via PayPal.
BYE BYE THREE-QUARTER
INCH - video /
summer 2004
Facing down the idea of dragging a crate of over one hundred three-quarter
inch Umatic mastertapes and raw footage along on yet another move, I came
with the alternative of creating new digital masters and destroying the
originals. Bye Bye Three-Quarter Inch began with the documentation of
that task.
May 2005 -
Alberta Scene
Facts
and Artifacts in the Collective Matrix -
essay / summer 2004
Who makes public records and how? In the future, how will archiving be carried
out for the Internet? What sites will be included, what will be discarded,
and for what reasons? Will market pressure alone determine online content?
May 2005 - ACIFA conference
(Alberta Colleges & Institutes Faculties Association)
February 2005 - To Save or Not to Save? International preservation projects
/ Empyre
RUSH,
1999 excerpts – video / fall 2004
from: Perpetual Crisis #6, Hamilton Artists Inc.
This speeded up, re-mixed and re-edited documentation of the TRUNK: RUSH 1999
project represents the characteristic content of that public interactive performance.
Time
Travel in This Moment - streaming poetry /
2003-2004
www.timetravelinthismoment.com
Site re-opens February 27 2004
Purplefireworks
a
working wordsite by Valerie LeBlanc
Ongoing site, launched December 2001
The
Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art
Link
to Valerie LeBlanc's page - october 2003
The ccca.ca project
was established by William (Bill) Kirby in 1996 and first appeared online
the following year. Its purpose continues to be to introduce and showcase
the careers of Canada's professional artists and art writers to a global
audience.
Pilgrim's Progress
- video / fall 2002
Pilgrim's
Progress looks at placing value on individual creation and thought process
in a society based on market economy.
2002 4:00 English
colour
Distributor:
VTape
>streaming
video via the ccca website - windows media -
Inventions for
a better world - text / fall 2002
The sketch on the left illustrates a
revolutionary plan to equip all highrise towers with exterior escape walkways.
Using walkway, rather than stairwells will make this escape route wheelchair
accessible. These walkways will facilitate the evacuation of compromised buildings
in a number of ways.
Summerquote
- streaming video / summer 2002
This change of season has forced the repositioning of everything.
Summer lush has the skin of barbed wire.
4 minutes, EMMEDIA Valerie LeBlanc, June
26, 2002
Distributor: VTape
>streaming
video via the ccca website - windows media -
Activistmenu.com
- June 2002
The Activist Menu is a framework for a number of projects and events intended
to begin bridging the gap between political discourse and artistic practice.
Organized by: NUTV, EMMEDIA and The Labour & The Arts Network.
Curated by Tom Andriuk
Location Location
Location: We are getting closer - May -July 2002
www.wearegettingcloser.com
A cross
crountry wireless webcam project by Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel Dugas,
part of the E-Lounge: The Atlantic Cultural Space Conference.
Curated by Léa Deschamps
TRUNK75 -
festival / fall 2001
TRUNK 75 was a 2 day festival held in honour of ACAD's 75th anniversary.
On Saturday, September 29 and Sunday, September 30, 2001, ACAD Students,
Alumni, Faculty, Staff, and Friends, displayed art works built around
the theme of 'vehicle.' The idea was to have fun while displaying or creating
art.
PRÉSENCE
27- 7 juin au
10 septembre 2000
PRÉSENCE
27 website
Le corps de l'installation PRÉSENCE 27 est formé d'une série
d’œuvres en trois dimensions occupant les deux grandes salles d'exposition célébrant
la diversité de moyens d'expression ainsi que la présence de femmes
artistes en Acadie.
TRUNK©
- portable galley / 1996 - ongoing
TRUNK© was created in October of 1996 by Daniel Dugas and Valerie LeBlanc.
At that time we were just coming back into the Maritimes from living in
the US and in Alberta for 7 years. We found ourselves in a time period
where we had no place to show our work and instead of waiting out that
long period between the application and the opening night, we made our
own art centre.
The Principal Dancer
-
streaming video / winter 2001
The Principal Dancer is a poetic video that makes use of visuals and audio
to imply thought while a woman performs the tasks of putting in a solitary
night shift. No written words is used in this experimental tape. The radio
moves between stations under a full moon of potential.
2001 6:00 Colour Distributor VTape
>streaming
video via the ccca website - windows media -
In
the Palm of the Hand -
Artist in School project / winter 2000
The project In the Palm
of the Hand was an Artist in School project made possible by The Arts Development
Branch of the New Brunswick Department of Economic Development, Tourism
and Culture. The two main goals of the project were: to discuss future plans
/ possible careers with the students, and to complete an artwork in glass.
These goals overlapped during my five day visit to the Barnhill Memorial
School.
February 7-10 + March 13, 2000
Atlas
has no time to lift weights - installation / 1998
The strongman appears to be sleepwalking, and is about to step off the edge.
He is wading through a swamp carrying a hot potato as world turn around
him. It all passes over his head and the cracks are starting to show. Would
now be a good time to get out the cards and to cast the die?
Courage
& Hope - commemorative
sculpture / fall 1998
In 1998, the December 6th Committee commissioned Artist Valerie LeBlanc
to complete the commemorative sculpture Courage & Hope. The sculpture was
designed to commemorate the loss of the fourteen young women killed in an
act of violence against women at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, 1989;
and to give a sense of inspiration and hope for the future efforts and achievements
of girls and women.
December 6th, 1998
BHP
Chapbooks - IN TRANSIT text /
image / 1998
Big Hope Productions, is part of Limit(E) Productions and is a collaborative
venture by Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel Dugas.
Perpetual
Motion Machine -
high tech low tech project / 1996
Designed to accompany the TRUNK exhibition Time
of the Day - November 1996
The image of the carrot which was hung from a string in front of the eyes
of horses to keep them moving, comes back to me as a metaphor for the desire
to continue. As the millenium rolls to an end...,
Selected
paintings (16)
Limit(E)
Productions - founded in 1993
In Transit | The Dahmer Tape | Salman's Head | Slices of Life
Poetry
Squid - prints / performance 2003-2005
In the spring of 2003, during the Time Travel Internet readings, I wrote out
large scale versions of the texts to cue the readers. It didn’t work that
well as you could hear the pages being turned which made it difficult for me,
the Reader and my Assistant, Daniel Dugas not to laugh.
Motivation
for Dedication
- video / Spring 2005
A documentary videotape featuring Gordon Christie of the Calgary District Labour
Council. Includes footage of recent public demonstrations in the city.
May 2005 - Mayworks Festival
FIX
- Art at 30 Frames Per Seconds
by Ceiran Bishop, Ronit Novak
Dose 049
Friday 10 June 2005
Pages 12/13
www.dose.ca
DOWNTOWN
-video / 2003
http://www.timetravelinthismoment.com/bonus.html
The series is based on studies of contemporary culture as depicted through
billboard promotion of living spaces. They are video poems based on cultural
observation and immersion. ...standing back, diving in, rejection, acceptance,
surrender to the inevitability of economy based culture.
Acadia
Woods - atlantic
conversations - Produced in 1994 [AUDIO ARCHIVE]
Acadia Woods west (1995) was presented at the Muttart Art Gallery in Calgary
AB during The Influence of Technology : January 2 - February 4 1995. Acadia
Woods east (1994) was presented during the Retrospective, Congrès Mondial
Acadien in Bouctouche, NB.
Mystery
Series - videos / 2005 - 2007
A Mystery, Featuring The Ghost Squid
Monster: A Mystery
Mystery Lives: A Surprising Comment
La
Dauphine - video /
2006
While preparing for the festival season, a small town in the south
of France is surprised to receive a rising star in their midst.
SCREENING:
EMMEDIA - March 31 2007
D.I.Y
- Making your own MediaPackBoard - summer 2007
Plans, photos to construct your own MPB!
MPB
EARTH:
THE ANGLE OF INCIDENCE IS EQUAL TO THE ANGLE OF REFLECTION
Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008 11am – 5pm
Downtown Calgary - Stephen Avenue Mall, TRUCK
Gallery
+ Weblob with
photo
