In the summer of 1993 I discovered a small publication that was being distributed through the Royal Bank. This book, installed next to the 'instant teller' in a plexi-glass wall display, could be obtained at most branches. It was a listing of all the instant tellers one could frequent across the province of Quebec, '24 hours a day, 365 days a year'.The book's format and accessibility intrigued me. With a ready-made display and seemingly limitless audience, one could easily substitute the Royal message with...anything.That fall I began collecting these books. While preserving their original cover, I inserted my own pages and returned the anonymously transformed version back to the display, to be discovered by another potential instant teller customer.
ARITIST'S BIOVictoria Stanton is a multi-disciplinary artist who works both on her ownand collaboratively. Her artist's bookworks and postcards have been shownin group exhibits in Montreal, New York and Toronto. Recently she performed on the radio show "Les Decrocheurs Des Etoiles" on SRC (CBF-FM),and had work published in "La Vache Enragee: Anthologie 1996-97". She willbe presenting solo performance pieces at Les Ateliers Convertibles inJoliette and Au Troisieme Imperiale in Granby, this fall. |
