IAIN BAXTER&: Now / Then
Posted: August 17, 2012IAIN 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 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).
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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 KitarÅ (1945)
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