Jeanne Randolph: Prairie Modernist Noir: The Disappearance of the Manitoba Telephone Booth

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Jeanne Randolph, Prairie Modernist Noir: The Disappearance of the Manitoba Telephone Booth, 2018

PLATFORM centre is pleased to announce a new extemporization by Jeanne Randolph (MB) on 15 October at 7:00 PM. Titled Prairie Modernist Noir: The Disappearance of the Manitoba Telephone Booth, the resultant script from the performance will become the text of the forthcoming bookwork of the same name published by Also As Well Too Artist Book Library & Press. All PLATFORM events are free and open to the public.

CLOSING RECEPTION & BOOK LAUNCH | Friday 07 December, 7:00 PM

Phone booths are a vanishing species in the communications kingdom. These phone booths were documented with an iphone and the photos left unmodified. Telephone booths exemplify the fate of many handy devices (including someday the iphone) in a rapidly shifting technology-dominated culture. The modernist design of the booth arouses memories of twentieth century cultural phenomena (Superman, contests to fit a record number of people into a booth, film noir and detective movies, for example) as well as mid-century Modern architecture (e.g.,The Seagram Building, 1958), fashion (e.g. Courrege’s “Built dress,” 1965) and interior design (e.g. Propst’s office cubicle 1968). 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jeanne Randolph has been writing, performing for, and contributing to Canadian contemporary visual arts since 1980. Five books of her collected art-writings have been published since 1991. Her fourth book, Ethics of Luxury: materialism and imagination (2007), and her latest book, Shopping Cart Pantheism (2015), addressed consumerist visual culture. Images in Randolph’s books and writings are often selected from a massive collection of photographs she has taken. Randolph has been awarded many national and provincial grants, as well as facilitated numerous art residencies. 

ABOUT ALSO AS WELL TOO

Also As Well Too is an artist-run, not-for-profit library and shop for artist books and small press publications. Located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Also As Well Too is a place for revelry and research that presents exhibitions, lectures, book launches, workshops, and meetings with a focus on one-of-a-kind and multiple bookworks.