In The Medium Of Motion (Part 8)
Posted: January 23, 2013
In The Medium Of Motion (Part 8)
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“True vision isn’t just seeing seeing. It’s also seeing not seeing. And true understanding isn’t just understanding understanding. It’s also understanding not understanding.”
– Bodhidharma (5th century CE), patriarch of Ch’an and Zen Buddhism
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“EnglishBay, Vancouver, 21 January 2013 – 16:02:20.” (Photo: M. Cynog Evans, CAUSA Archives.)
“English Bay, Vancouver, 21 January 2013 – 16:02:30.” (Photo: M. Cynog Evans, CAUSA Archives.)
“EnglishBay, Vancouver, 21 January 2013 – 16:02:41.” (Photo: M. Cynog Evans.)
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“One meaning of time is a drift toward inertia.”
– Wylie Sypher (1969)
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“That the mental fire doesn’t burn appears to be the first prerequisite of our managing the fire that does burn – of having it burn when, how, and where we wish. … This is just the fundamental question of morals – the interaction of persons and things, or of personal freedom and the stable order.”
– John Dewey (1904)
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MIRROR THROWN INTO THE SEA
[Statement sent by Iain Baxter (N.E. THING Company) – via telex – from Simon Fraser University to the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 17 September 1969.
Baxter’s instructions to students of David Askevold’s “Projects Class” (NSCAD) state: “Photodocument … as mirror leaves hand and as mirror hits water.”
Enactment of this proposition (first realized in Halifax and exhibited at NSCAD) prefigures a continuously collaborative aesthetic intendment – across the unified field of an IAIN BAXTER/BAXTER& trajectory]
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“Art makes it possible to pass through things and to be a process of going through, not an arrival.”
– Mario Merz (1983)
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“I believe that all creative persons working in the field of the Visual Arts in Canada have a great need to get together, not only with each other, but with many persons in ancillary fields, in order to establish a foundation of principles and of attitude, of a specifically Canadian kind. Ours is a new country, at times it would seem almost a primitive country, but surely therein lies some of our great strength, our potential value? (As Wang Wei said: ‘To learn how to paint, one must first cut off both hands.”)
– Wells Coates: excerpt of a letter to Alan Jarvis, Director, National Gallery of Canada (1956)
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” ‘Block Salt On Tidal Plane’ – IAIN BAXTER& / CAUSA Curatorial Project. EnglishBay, Vancouver – 17 January, 2013.” (Photo: M. Cynog Evans.)
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