Valerie LeBlanc + Daniel H. Dugas
Date: May 2022
Two volume set
Paper:  $82.00

About the book

Our need to revisit and to re-evaluate works completed from the late 1980’s to 2018 led us to the creation of this book. We are happy to share the actual works and documentation of these collaborative and individually based projects.

The texts are in English or French, some are presented bilingually. Introductions by Catherine Parayre and Lucy English as well as in-depth commentary by Sarah Tremlett.

We would like to thank editors Gina Maranto and Catherine Parayre. Thanks to Olivier Lasser for his help with the layout. We acknowledge the support of the New Brunswick Arts Board.

À propos du livre
Ce livre réuni des textes et des images provenant de vidéopoèmes réalisés au cours des trente dernières années. Nous sommes heureux de pouvoir partager ici ces œuvres collaboratives et individuelles, textuelles et virtuelles.

Les textes sont en anglais ou en français, certains sont présentés de façon bilingue. Le livre contient des textes d’introduction de Catherine Parayre et de Lucy English ainsi qu’un commentaire détaillé de Sarah Tremlett.

Nous aimerions remercier Gina Maranto et Catherine Parayre pour leur travail d’édition. Merci à Olivier Lasser pour son aide avec la mise en page. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Nouveau-Brunswick de son soutien.

The online version of the book has now been released:
Le livre est maintenant disponible en version numérique / libre accès :

https://dr.library.brocku.ca/handle/10464/14790

From Vtape:

Videopoetry Vol. 1

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.

Videopoetry Vol. 2

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.