MARSHALL McLUHAN/HARLEY PARKER + IAIN BAXTER/BAXTER&: Diction, Contradiction, and Agreement

Posted: February 20, 2013 | Author: David Bellman

 

MARSHALL McLUHAN/

HARLEY PARKER + IAIN

BAXTER/BAXTER&: Diction,

Contradiction, and Agreement

(Part 2)

David Bellman

CAUSA

 

20.02.13.

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“The artist provides us with environments that enable us to

see the environment. Such anti-environmental means of

perception must constantly be renewed in order to be

efficacious.”

– Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker (1969)

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Iain Baxter/N.E. Thing Co., ACT [Aesthetically Claimed Thing]

certificate, 1968.

 

Iain Baxter/N.E. Thing Co., ART [Aesthetically Rejected Thing],

certificate, 1968.

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“I used the corporation [N.E. Thing Company Ltd.] as a form.

I recognized that our lives were increasingly controlled by

these entities, so I wanted to use one to see what I could do

with it in the context of art.”

– IAIN BAXTER& (2011)

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Iain Baxter/N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., ACT No. 19: Marcel Duchamp’s Total Art Production Except his Total Ready-Made Production (1968) / ART No. 19: Marcel Duchamp’s Total Ready-Made Production Except his Total Art Production (1968), 1969. Collection: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

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“Environment used as probe or art object is satirical because

it draws attention to itself.”

– Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker (1968)

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Iain Baxter, 12’ x 12’ Green Sculpture, 1968. (Exhibited: “Inflatable Wearables

Collection” – Burnaby Art Gallery, British Columbia, 1968.)

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“All things are there in order that they may, in some sense, become pictures for us.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke (1899)

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Iain Baxter, 16’ Triangular Orange, 1968. (Exhibited: “Inflatable Wearables Collection – Burnaby Art Gallery, British Columbia, 1968.)

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“As to my own actualization these days, it is truly creative and

destructive. I play about with miraculous transformations,

entering all circumstances, and whatever I am, I have nothing

further to seek.”

– Zen master Rinzai (d. 866 CE)

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Iain Baxter/N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., Information: Yves Klein, Leap Into The Void, 1962 [sic.]. [Project: 1976 exhibition, Celebration Of The Body, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario.]

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“Vacuum is all potent because all containing. In vacuum

alone motion becomes possible.”

– Okakura-Kakuzō (1906)

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Yamada Gallery Announcement for Iain Baxter’s first solo exhibition, Kyoto, Japan, 1961.

“Almost every work of art is an analogy.”

– Gerhard Richter (1970)

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IAIN BAXTER&, Rocky Mountain Landscape, 60” television [with “snow/electronic noise”] and acrylic paint, 2012.

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“Today the environment itself becomes the artefact. The consequences

for learning are quite extraordinary. The prepared environment separates

the old curriculum.”

– Marshall McLuhan (1964)

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