We just came back from Calgary where our video installation What We Take With Us is being presented at The New Gallery. The opening was on January 5th and the exhibition will continue until February 4th 2012.  We stayed at the John Snow House which is administrated by TNG.  It is an extraordinary place loaded with history. Thanks to everyone at TNG: Tim, Jessica, Noel, Kathryn, Su, Volunteers – and all who came

WHERE & WHEN Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen: June 27 to July 2, 2011 1 pm until 5 pm Struts Gallery: July 4 to July 8, 2011 1 pm until 5 pm CAMEO, a research project by Valerie LeBlanc featuring interviews of creative persons. A cameo role refers to a famous person playing her/himself in a brief appearance. Like a cameo brooch a director, actor or celebrity is instantly recognizable when she/he appears in a

The video installation Existence : Le passé et le présent, was presented on two opposing walls with text-over poetry in French. The same text was used to speak for A) The Past; and B) The Present. (2008 Oeuvres sélectionnées July 9 – August 31, 2008 Galerie d’Art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen de l’Université de Moncton, Moncton,

TRUNK75, collaboration with Daniel Dugas, ACAD, Calgary,

The 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. Performances, Honda Housewives Hospitality’, live poetry and Tarot card readings, were all elements

Ce n’est pas une Pipe Tuyau de poêle, images photocopiées,182,9 X 182,9 X 29,3 cm This tall hat carries images that represent who I am, where I come from. Where I go remains a work-in-progress. I am drawn toward the mysteries and turns that life lays out and I eagerly embrace the challenge to proceed against the odds cast by the dice. Ce haut chapeau porte des images qui représentent qui je suis et d’où je

Somehow the legend arose that Atlas the giant was supporting the weight of the world.  The world turned, was plunged into darkness, and the legend was lost in the archives.  After a few nights of bad dreams in musty accommodations, entrepreneurs began to pull back the blinds from the lost passages.  As Alchemists, they searched for ways of increasing the quality of gold which could be held in the hands.  Time passed as

THE TIME OF THE DAY November 12-17 1996 The gift of a watch has been used to mark many important events throughout a lifetime. Love, affection, retirement, the passage of time and the attainment of something is marked with such a gift. There are very valuable watches that can be used as collateral, to denote status in one’s community, a show of wealth. Cheap watches serve the function of marking, keeping time, and they

• Eastern Edge, Gold / Rush, (TRUNK©), Contemporary Visual Festival, St-John’s, NF • Hamilton Artist Inc.,Gold / Rush, (TRUNK©) Hamilton, ON • Itinérant / Mobile, Moncton, Notre-Dame, Sackville, NB, 1996-1997 Historic: 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

Statement In 1844 when Samuel Morse sent the first telegram in the United States, he breathed life into communication technology. That first message between Washington and Baltimore read, “What hath God wrought.” A few years later, Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden: …We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Main to Texas; but Main and Texas it may be, have nothing important to communicate. … In