Archive for the ‘"Statement"’ Category
3rd Annual Co-Kisser Poetry-Film Festival October 19, 2013 4 – 8pm Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota In October, I had the opportunity to screen my work MPB Was There Then at the Co-Kisser Poetry-Film Festival. Thanks to funding from artsnb in the form of a Career Development: Arts-by-Invitation grant, I was able to attend and to participate actively during the Festival. On
What lies beneath is obscured from the eyes and memory but never erased. The race to find H2O on the moon has less to do with discovery, and more to do with the burn and lay waste policies that are wiping out this planet’s ecosystems. This is definitely not rocket science. Considering the length of time it took for all of the wonders of nature to form under and on top of this crust we stand on, the rate of speed
I always thought I was wimpy. I thought I was on the side of peace, and freedom of personal opportunity. Even if it was wimpy, Even if it was nerdy, Even if it was stupid. From an early age, living in the Canadian North, where knives were the weapons of choice, I was terrified by the concept of ‘stabbing’, I never knew why, but I felt it meant ‘instant death’. I saw DRIVE and I felt
About Valerie LeBlanc
Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, pluri-disciplinary artist and writer Valerie LeBlanc has worked in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia. Her creations travel between poetry, performance, visual and written theory. Valerie LeBlanc has been creating video poetry since the mid 1980’s, and is the creator of the MediaPackBoard (MPB), portable screening / performance device.
L’artiste pluridisciplinaire Valerie LeBlanc est vidéaste, poète, performeuse et essayiste. Son travail oscille entre le remarquable et le quotidien. Elle a exposé ses œuvres en Europe, en Australie et au Brésil. Elle crée des vidéopoèmes depuis le milieu des années 1980 et a inventé le MediaPackBoard (MPB), un appareil de projection mobile pour la performance.
Everglades
À partir de leur exploration du parc national des Everglades, Daniel H. Dugas et Valerie LeBlanc cartographient dans cet essai poétique les effets de la présence humaine sur le milieu naturel, les traces qu’elle y dépose. Everglades est une ode à la beauté, à la fragilité et à la résilience d’une nature aux prises avec une espèce envahissante, la nôtre.
Everglades
Through their exploration of the Everglades National Park, Daniel H. Dugas and Valerie LeBlanc document, in this poetic collection, the effects of human presence in the natural world and the traces left behind. Everglades is an ode to the beauty, the fragility and the resilience of nature faced with the invasiveness of a particular species, ours.
Date : Mars 2018
Genre : Poésie
Collection : Poésie
ISBN : 9782897441029
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