Valerie LeBlanc

Cultural Flotsam

FILE 2018 | VIDEOART
Electronic Language International Festival

Abstract:
To give a measure of doubt in favor of human organization, we could say that what floats in the bay among the seaweed is accidental. And if the jellyfish and sea birds find value there, what does it say for our cultural legacy?

Biography:
Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia; the pluri-disciplinary artist and writer Valerie LeBlanc has worked in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia. Her creations travel between video poetry since the mid-1980’s, she is also the creator of the MediaPackBoard (MPB), portable screening / performance device. Her new book of poetry “Everglades”, co-written with Daniel H. Dugas, has just been published by Les Éditions Prise de parole.