Une ville abandonnée
Jennifer Roche
April 10-28, 2007

video still, 2007

Une ville abandonnée takes its inspiration from two fin-de-siècle Belgian cultural figures, novelist George Rodenbach and artist Fernand Khnopff. The artist’s book is made up of images drawn from digital video footage and texts both original and quoted. Video segments are displayed on a monitor adjacent to the pages of the book. It is a work of performance. The book, the texts, the images, and the video segments are its documents. The artist gratefully acknowledges funding from the Canada Council for the Arts under First Works/Conseil des arts du Canada.

As an emerging artist, I am pursuing an interdisciplinary practice combining performance art theory, lens-based imagery, and writing in the creation of artist’s books, video installations, and giclée and conventional photographic prints. My theoretical and thematic interests include issues of voice, recurrent visual motifs, explorations of personal iconography, and experiments in the interplay of text and image. I have an undergraduate degree in Art History from Queen’s University and have taken courses in film production at Concordia University.