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Alchemy : End of a phase
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- Moving images
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Valerie LeBlanc
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MS-3-46, 1987-023
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1 videocassette (8 min., 18 sec.) : U-matic, col., NTSC, stereo
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Biographical history
Valerie LeBlanc is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator from Halifax, Nova Scotia, who has exhibited works throughout Canada and the United States. LeBlanc has been working with her video poetry, fiction, performance and visual and written theory since the 1980s. Since 2013, LeBlanc has been a doctoral candidate in Visual Arts at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Custodial history
The tape was donated to the Dalhousie University Archives in 2013 by the Centre for Art Tapes.
Scope and content
Item consists of a video by Valerie LeBlanc. The tape is a personal recount of the director’s decision to give up one art form, that of glass blowing, to move on to something new. Shot in simple style that combines still images with a visual performance/ demonstration and a layered soundtrack. Its title, "Alchemy" references the term's use to describe the medieval science of chemistry that allows one to transform something special. It also is considered to be a lost art.
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- English
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Videocassette is available as an uncompressed 10-bit digital master video file (MOV format) and 8-bit access digital video file (MPEG-4 format).
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Digital copies can be viewed at the Dalhousie University Archives. Advance notice is required.
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Copyright is held by the artist.