Bio

Deborah VanSlet is a Montreal video artist whose is primarily interested in the social relevance of art.  Her work is based on the tradition of storytelling and she has been strongly influenced by her years of travel and her role as a mother.  As well as performing on camera, she has also developed a movement style behind the camera, shooting on-site dance videos and exploring storytelling through movement.

Works

Rules Of The Road

  • 2005
  • Deborah VanSlet

A dance video on hitch-hiking. Standing by the side of the road and sticking out your thumb is a very particular gesture. The video expresses both the exhilaration and anxiety associated with taking a chance and heading out into parts unknown.

Rules Of The Road

How to Spot an anorexic

  • 2004
  • Deborah VanSlet

How To Spot An Anorexic is an interesting tale about the cycle of abuse. It’s an updated version of HANSEL & GRETEL, complete with fireside chat, puppets and skeletons, actual compassion for the witch and a genuinely distasteful recipe for Jaded Gingerbread

How to Spot an anorexic

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  • 1996
  • Deborah VanSlet

Outside a school in the dust, in a windy vacant lot, in a muddy lake: these spaces influenced an energetic choreography created for the camera. The camera itself is incorporated and...

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