NATURE GIVES ME THE WILLIES

Jeanne Randolph

Nature Gives Me the Willies, brings Randolph’s—“ficto-criticism” to the subject of ‘Nature’. “Nature has always been one of humankind’s biggest ideas, except that saying this sentence about Nature, according to Ludwig Wittgenstein, may not necessarily be what we sought to think, what we out to think, maybe not even what we think we think about Nature or about ideas.” (J. Randolph)Nature Gives Me the Willies is published  in conjunction with the exhibition Species Life, at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON, Canada, June 12 – August 8,

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) and My Claustrophobic Happiness (2020). Dr. Randolph is also known 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.