{"id":14492,"date":"2018-10-25T16:37:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T16:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skol.ca\/?p=14492\/"},"modified":"2020-08-12T20:14:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T20:14:51","slug":"denis-lessard-letter-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skol.ca\/en\/membersspace\/denis-lessard-letter-athlete\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Lessard: Letter Athlete"},"content":{"rendered":" <!--  -->\n\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview ngg-slideshow\"\n\t id=\"ngg-slideshow-674d64da891ec1c08e70c33a647a5477-2442590420\"\n     data-gallery-id=\"674d64da891ec1c08e70c33a647a5477\"\n     style=\"max-width: 540px; max-height: 300px;\">\n\n \t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-slideshow-image\" style=\"height:300px\">\n\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/denis_lessard\/glh2707_photo-guy-lheureux.jpg\"\n           title=\"\"\n           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data-src=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/denis_lessard\/dlessard_visuel_crop.jpg\"\n           data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/denis_lessard\/thumbs\/thumbs_dlessard_visuel_crop.jpg\"\n           data-image-id=\"1388\"\n           data-title=\"dlessard_visuel_crop\"\n           data-description=\"\"\n           class=\"shutterset_674d64da891ec1c08e70c33a647a5477\">\n\n            <img data-image-id='1388'\n                 title=\"\"\n                 alt=\"dlessard_visuel_crop\"\n                 src=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/denis_lessard\/dlessard_visuel_crop.jpg\"\n                 style=\"max-height: 280px;\"\/>\n        <\/a>\n\n        <\/div> \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Videos and documents<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>November 15 \u2013 December 15, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Letter Athlete<\/em>, Denis Lessard retraces the numerous ramifications of two archival documents in his possession during the creation of approximately thirty short videos in conversation with Michel Belisle, videos made following discussions with friends, family, artist colleagues, cultural workers and archivists. In this video series, Lessard and Belisle touch on a certain famous American author with roots in Qu\u00e9bec, family memories, translation, newspaper clippings, and a trip to Massachusets\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Letter Athlete<\/em>, viewers are invited to follow the pair\u2019s meandering reflections on authenticity, the value of documents, literature and language through the videos, and then draw their own conclusions and interpretations from the pieces of evidence displayed on the gallery wall!<\/p>\n<p id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-ta tw-text-small\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">Webcast on the ArchAPo site, as of December 16, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"oSioSc\">\n<div id=\"tw-target\">\n<div id=\"tw-target-text-container\" class=\"gsrt tw-ta-container tw-nfl\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archapo.com\/content\/letter-athlete\">http:\/\/www.archapo.com\/content\/letter-athlete<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\"><span class=\"\" title=\"\">Watch the video capsule about <em>Letter Athlete<\/em> filmed in the Galerie passage des membres <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=exKeBSBsxWg\">HERE<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span class=\"m_-4029010491719763922gmail-m_-5627680671748489010gmail-m_-9100277439077877438gmail-\">Denis Lessard is a visual artist and archivist.<\/span><span class=\"m_-4029010491719763922gmail-m_-5627680671748489010gmail-m_-9100277439077877438gmail-\">He is particularly interested in the links between documents and the people or communities that produced or received them.<\/span>\u00a0His<span class=\"m_-4029010491719763922gmail-m_-5627680671748489010gmail-m_-9100277439077877438gmail-\">\u00a0performances and visual creations were presented in Canada, the United States, France and the Netherlands.<\/span><span class=\"m_-4029010491719763922gmail-m_-5627680671748489010gmail-m_-9100277439077877438gmail-\">He holds a Master&#8217;s degree in Art History and a Certificate in Archival Science from the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al (1985 and 2010).<\/span><span class=\"m_-4029010491719763922gmail-m_-5627680671748489010gmail-m_-9100277439077877438gmail-\">Recipient of the Louis Comtois Prize in 1994, he has also received several Canada Council for the Arts grants and two travel grants from the Conseil des arts et lettres du Qu\u00e9bec.<\/span><span class=\"m_-4029010491719763922gmail-m_-5627680671748489010gmail-m_-9100277439077877438gmail-\">He lives and works in Montreal.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denislessard.ca\/\">www.denislessard.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14496\" src=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Logos-Fusionnes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"49\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo : Guy L&#8217;Heureux and the Lowell Sun. Staff photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 15 &#8211; December 15, 2018<br \/>\nVideos and documents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-membersspace"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Denis Lessard: Letter Athlete - Centre des arts actuels SKOL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/en\/membersspace\/denis-lessard-letter-athlete\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Denis Lessard: Letter Athlete - 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