IAIN BAXTER&: Origination / Generation

Posted: October 4, 2012 | Author: David Bellman

IAIN BAXTER&:

Origination / Generation

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David Bellman, CAUSA

October 3, 2012

– Lao Tse (sixth century B.C.E.)

 

Site 1.

 

IAIN BAXTER&, Mirrors Amongst the Salad Greens,

Loutet Urban Farm, City ofNorth Vancouver, October 2012.

 

Photography: M. Cynog Evans.

 

 

“Observation and perception are two separate things; the observing

eye is stronger, the perceiving eyes is weaker.”

– Miyamato Musashi (1643)

Site 2.

IAIN BAXTER&, L&SCAPE [temporary installation,

City of North Vancouver Library], 2012.

 

 

“Environment is process, not container.”

– Marshall McLuhan (1969)

 

Site 3.

IAIN BAXTER&, Transmitted Visual Sensitivity Information [TRANSVSI], 1969/2012.

 

Artist’s instructions: “Take 1000 sheets of paper. Crumple and spread on the floor in an amorphous shape, with edges touching.” [Telex communication – from Iain Baxter, SimonFraserUniversity, Burnaby, British Columbia – to Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax. September 15, 1969.]

 

Photography: M. Cynog Evans. [Installation: Dorothy Somerset Studio, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Technical assistance: Ksenia Cheinman and Kevin Day.]

 

“While information is necessary for self-awareness, propaganda

is necessary to prevent self-awareness from turning into despair.”

 

Site 4.

IAIN BAXTER&, Transmitted Sensitivity Information [TRANSVSI], 1969/2012.

[Previously transmitted as telex – from Iain Baxter, SimonFraserUniversity, Burnaby, British Columbia – to Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax.]

 

DON’T LOOK HERE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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