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FOUNDWEALTH < artist statement>

My individual and collaborative artistic practice is carried out on several fronts at the same time. I mix a wide range of materials and processes ranging to complete installations. I combine poetry / performance, time-based recordings, new media works, painting, sculpture and found objects. For several years now, my practice has evolved around themes of Economy, and issues of Power. Boom or bust economies, mechanisms of exchange, the rise and the collapse of opportunities, all are elements I use to explore the nature of wealth. I like reality and I think that performance, in particular, can address issues in a real way, having impact on people. I see myself as half agent of change and half entertainer.

<biographical notes>
Daniel Dugas was born in Montreal , QC, in 1959. He holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree (1993) from the Time Arts Program at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (1986) from the Université de Moncton, in Moncton, New-Brunswick; and a Certificate in Social Work (1980) from the Université St-Anne, in Church Point, Nova-Scotia. He was an artist in residence for sculpture at the Banff Center for the Arts, in Banff, Alberta, 1989-1990. In 1994, he was invited by the Music Department at the Banff Center for an audio residency. He was in residence at Sculpture Space in Utica, New York in 1990-1991. In 1990, Dugas began to collaborate with the artist Valerie LeBlanc under the name Limit(E) Productions. Usually working on time-based projects, they have produced several bodies of work. In 1996 they created the TRUNK© gallery and received national exposure for their exhibitions. The gallery, located in the trunk of an automobile, would travel to public spaces in different local in an impromptu manner. Daniel Dugas is also a poet, his fourth book of poetry; La Limite Élastique has been released in 1998 by the Éditions Perce-Neige of Moncton.
 
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