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Jeanne Randolph

EVENT LOCATION:
Bell Auditorium, D440

EVENT DATE & TIME
February 13, 2026 1:00 pm

Attack of the merciless squid

Artist Statement

Jeanne has been dedicated to contemporary Canadian culture since 1983. Her first book, Psychoanalysis & Synchronized Swimming [1991] included ficto-criticism, the unique art criticism mode she invented, as have her writings in exhibition catalogues and chapters for books. Her cultural criticism have rhapsodized upon psychoanalytic theory, American football, Western philosophy, aphids, Barbie dolls, The Technological Ethos, Winnipeg parking lots, Las Vegas, the uncanny, Pythagoras, etc. etc. etc. Jeanne’s photographs are exhibited by Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.

This talk is presented as part of NSCAD’s Visiting Artist program, supported by the Dalglish Family Foundation Visiting Artist Fund.

Jeanne Randolph

About the artist

Jeanne Randolph is one of Canada’s foremost cultural theorists. She is the author of the influential book Psychoanalysis & Synchronized Swimming (1991) as well as Symbolization and Its Discontents (1997), Why Stoics Box (2003), Ethics of Luxury (2007), Shopping Cart Pantheism (2015), Prairie Modernist Noir: The Disappearance of the Manitoba Telephone Booth (2018), and, most recently, My Claustrophobic Happiness. Dr. Randolph is also known for her curation and as an engaging lecturer, performance artist and musician. In universities and galleries across Canada, England, Australia, and Spain, she has spoken on topics ranging from the aesthetics of Barbie to the philosophy of Wittgenstein.
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