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Iain Baxter& |
| project: Quarter Mile N.E. Thing Co. Landscape |
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Quarter Mile N.E. Thing Co. Landscape, 1968 |
Initial intervention,
executed in Newport Harbor, South California.
The N.E. Thing Co. produced a series of interventions
on various Canadian and U.S. landscapes whereby
they installed road signs on ordinary highways.
The sequence of photographs that re-creates this
journey informs us that we are travelling through
a “Quarter Mile N.E. Thing Co. Landscape”.
Although the images are still photographs, they
ingeniously imitate cinematic ellipsis by linking
spaces and times to convey the temporality of the
route. After the images, a map that situates the
site is displayed, while a drawn sketch retraces
the path taken. N.E. Thing Co. is playing with contradictions
that command our attention: the text’s descriptive
quality produces a sense of space, while the immobility
of the images takes us on a journey, and our imagination
provokes a spatio-temporal experience. |
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