Jeanne Randolph and Marina Roy will be in-conversation
Saturday 29 March, 2-3PM
VAC Project Space | 670 Fort Street
Seating is very limited.
As part of ANOTHER LIFE, chapter three “Women in Revolt” we are thrilled to welcome artists and writers Jeanne Randolph and Marina Roy to offer an intimate conversation in relation to their practice and recent publications.
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), My Claustrophobic Happiness, and, most recently Parking Lot Pandemic (2021). Dr. Randolph is also known for her curatorial investigations 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.
Her forthcoming book, Pythagoras of the Prairies, (flask, 2025), is from a trilogy of what Dr. Randolph refers to as her ode to Winnipeg, where she dwelt for many years after Toronto and before her current home base of Waterloo, ON.
Marina Roy works across a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, video and animation. In addition to being an artist, she is a writer and professor at the University of British Columbia. Her artwork investigates the intersection between language, image, and ideology, and her theoretical interests are largely art historical and psychoanalytic.
Taking encyclopedic form, Queuejumping, eloquently unspools manifestations of capitalist, colonialist, agrologist, and scientist impulses–all within the context of the letter Q. From queens, queers, quadrupeds, and the Quran to quick, quiddity, and quotidian, artist and scholar Marina Roy masterfully presents research-based art writing, poetry, lists (Q without U: words for Scrabble), found images and piercing essays on humankind’s hunger to supersede the other in order to preference what Roy calls “the vertically-directed world.” Moving effortlessly between the macro and micro—from millions of years of organic decay to the the contemplation of contemporary art—Queuejumping— is concerned with the origins of hegemonic forces, what is lost by winning, and what is gained by stepping out of line.
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The Victoria Arts Council recognizes the support from our Membership; community partner: The Bay Centre | Victoria; and operational support from the Province of British Columbia and the CRD Arts Services.