IAIN BAXTER&: In The Medium Of Motion (Part 5)
Posted: January 9, 2013
IAIN BAXTER&: In The Medium Of Motion (Part 5)
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“It is a matter of pure convention as to which of our experiential activities we term mental and which physical.”
– Alfred North Whitehead (1927)
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“Every act is political and, whether one is conscious of it or not, the presentation of one’s work is no exception.”
– Daniel Buren (1969)
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BAXTER PROPOSAL
• PEOPLE IN HALIFAX TO LIVE ON VANCOUVER TIME (PACIFIC STANDARD TIME) FOR ANY PERIOD OF TIME.
[Iain Baxter / N.E. Thing Co. message: transmitted by telephone, September 16, 1969. Information received by Gerald Ferguson (Halifax), and publicly presented (in typescript) on September 17 – as part of the exhibition TRANS VSI CONNECTION, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, September 15 – October 5, 1969.]
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“Commemorative Plaque, Hamilton Street, Vancouver: October 6, 2012, 14:19.” [Photo: M. Cynog Evans, CAUSA Archives.]
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“All art is propaganda, for it is in fact impossible to do anything, to make anything which is not expressive of ‘value.’ The artist may say he does not care who likes his work or dislikes it, whether it effects anything or not, but directly he shows his work to anyone, and more so if he shows it in a public place, he becomes a responsible propagandist for the ‘values,’ the ethos, expressed in his work and therefore promoted by it.”
– Eric Gill (1935)
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“The body implements the soul and in this sense we are all artists.”
– Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1958)
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