(From Vtape website)
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.
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.
