CONCEPTIVITY / CONNECTIVITY

Posted: July 20, 2012 | Author: David Bellman

CONCEPTIVITY / CONNECTIVITY:

DIMENSIONALITY AND DISPLACEMENT

 

David Bellman

Part 1

In Plain View

 

“Art has poisoned our life.”

• Theo Van Doesburg (1925)

 

“The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject

which is nothing but a project of the world.”

• Maurice Merleau Ponty (1945)

 

“A million years is contained in a second, yet we tend to forget the

second as it happens.”

• Robert Smithson (1966)

 

“In a space with more than three dimensions, there can be no

traditional atoms and perhaps no stable structures. A space with

less than three dimensions allows no gravitational force and may

be too simple and barren to contain observers.”

• Max Tegmark (1997)

 

Preliminary points of reference:

1.

BLOCK

Aluminum letters on wall. (Installation variable.)

First presented in the exhibition N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., National Gallery of Canada, 1969.

Exhibited (in a new format) at Artspeak, Vancouver: New (Nomadic) Works, October 26 to November 12, 2011.

[Photographs: M. Cynog Evans.]

 

2.

“A word is worth 1/1000^th of a picture.”

Wall text. (Installation variable.)

First presented in the exhibition N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., National Gallery of Canada, 1969.

Exhibited (in a new format) at Artspeak, Vancouver: New (Nomadic) Works, October 26 to November 12, 2011.

[Photograph: M. Cynog Evans.]

 

3.

“This statement is actually a mural.”

Wall text. [Installation variable.]

First presented in the exhibition N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., National Gallery of Canada, 1969.

Exhibited (in a new format) at Artspeak, Vancouver: New (Nomadic) Works, October 26 to November 12, 2011.

 

4.

AND/DNA

Window signage, North Vancouver City Library, North Vancouver, British Columbia.

Presented as a component of the curatorial project IAIN BAXTER&: Information/Location, North Vancouver (a multi-site exhibition), presented from June 17 to December 30 2012.

[Photographs: M. Cynog Evans.]

 

__________

“Vancouver’s N.E. Thing Co. is another name for Iain Baxter … an artist for whom anything goes.”

• Time Magazine (Canadian Edition), September 1, 1967

 

“The ampersand summons the idea of something always happening in the future.”

• IAIN BAXTER& (2012)