IAIN BAXTER&: Now / Then

IAIN BAXTER&:

Now / Then

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David Bellman, CAUSA

August 16. 2012

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Pioneer kitchen, North VancouverMuseum. Permanent collection display (with ampersand), forming part of the exhibition IAIN BAXTER&: INFORMATION / LOCATION: NORTH VANCOUVER, June 17 -- December 30, 2012. Photo: M. Cynog Evans.

“Pioneer” kitchen, North VancouverMuseum. Permanent collection display (with ampersand), forming part of the exhibition IAIN BAXTER&: INFORMATION / LOCATION: NORTH VAMCOUVER, June 17 – December 30, 2012.
Photo: M. Cynog Evans.

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MEMO

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From:

CAUSA / Collective for Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts

To

Adam Lauder, YorkUniversity

Re:

CAUSA Research Colloqium:

LANGUAGE & LIBERATION: LOCAL (GLOBAL) PERSPECTIVES, 24 August 2012

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CANCELLED

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[New date/location to be announced.]

15.08.12.

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Iain Baxter sends a 50,000-mile telex transmission (1969).

Iain Baxter sends a 50,000-mile telex transmission (1969).

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“So we have Iain Baxter working not at an easel in a studio but sitting in front of his telex … not to place orders or transmit business but for Trans-S.I., Transmitted Sensitivity Information.”

– Joan Lowndes (1968)

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ICE POND CRACKED IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE

[Iain Baxter. Trans-S.I., sent from Simon Fraser University to Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, October 3, 1969.]

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“The historical world is always the contradictory identity of space and time. It moves from the created to the creating through its own
self-expressive transformation. As the many individuals comprising the self-expressive historical world, we are created-and-creating transformative elements of the world’s own self-expression.”

– Nishida Kitarō (1945)

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