Portrait Series artist talk with Brielle LeBlanc at the Halifax Art Book Fair, 2026.
Photo courtesy of Hannah Gillett.
Portrait Series: Banff
A Turn Towards Night
2026
Field recording, stop motion animation, 16mm film, inkjet prints, wooden mattes.
Made with Brielle LeBlanc at Banff Summer Artist in Residence program.
One of three rotoscoped animal animations made for the Portrait Series film.
Each frame was laser cut from wood and became a matte used in front of the camera when Brielle was shooting.
Still of one sequence of the laser cut matting. This technique gave us the ability to experiment with animating the image inside the silhouette as well as the silhouette itself.
Other animations, like this magpie, were printed on acetate and laser cut into the shape of 16mm film. That "film" was run through a projector and digitized. Once they were digitized, they were further manipulated.
Top left: Original rotoscoped animation
Top right: Final product in the film
Bottom: Printed acetate of a more detailed magpie animation on overhead projector prior to being laser cut.
94 Ways to put your Hand in your Pocket
Shown at theblanc NYC as part of Fault Lines group show, 2025.
10 minute 1 channel video encased in thick felt.
Short-form course
put on through Soundial
More information here:
https://www.soundial.org/events/sound-objects-environmental-improvisation
knot, an action for 10 performers , 2025
10 individuals stood in a circle, there was 5 pairs of 2, with each pair holding opposite ends of a piece of string 2 meters in length. the performance started with the pair who's string was on the bottom lifted each end and exchanged in the center, pulling the 5 strings tight together and creating the center of the knot. each pair after repeated the same motion 10 times, slowly closing the gap between pairs with each pass. the mass of loops that was formed is not truly knotted and is quite delicate.
the actions lasted for approximately 7 minutes, in which (by no direction of myself) almost no words were spoken, all communication happened through eye contact and gesture. most eyes were fixed on the growing knot in the center.
pictured is the resulting knot from the most recent performance.
Sound Reservoir, 2024
Through my residency with the Centre for Art Tapes, I was able to create the frameworks for an online database of samples from many different environments. The database is free to access and download from, as well as is open to submissions from anyone.
The website is accessible here:
https://www.soundreservoir.org/
And the database (hosted on Bandcamp) is accessible here:
EVERYSEEKER 2024
Scores and performance. During my year-long residency with EVERYSEEKER, I created a series of scores, which culminated into printed matter pieces that served as the frameworks for a performance in June of 2024, under the name Gambol Together. The scores can be found here
EVERYSEEKER 2024
End of residency performance at the festival under the name Gambol Together with Lili-Maud Dobell, Brielle LeBlanc, Campbell McClintock, and Charity Cruz.
Thank you to EVERYSEELKER and Shuvanjan Karmaker for the photographs!
earthsong, 2023
6:12
originally a full-room installation, rear-projected on tulle. experiment in deriving and mutating polyrhythms, combinations were chosen at random by a generator. segments of natural sound played to achieve an understandable and meditative rhythm.
stills from
glass palace 2022
12:14
World premiere at Re:Voire festival, Paris 2023
and Recontres International, Toulouse, 2023
fork in the road
2021
0:48
Publically installed at the NSCAD Library in 2023
in_the_fog
2021
3:43
Stills from
contact
2021
Photos by Siobhan Mayheux-Galway
west
2020
4:12
east
2020
4:34
link to
event
bandcamp
link to
redress
bandcamp
performance documentation
ice exploration
2020
performance documentation
event 7/27/19
2019