N.E. Thing Co.
N.E. Thing Co. was a Canadian art collective producing work from 1967-1978. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, N.E. Thing Co. was run by co-presidents Iain and Ingrid Baxter.[1]
Seminal figures in the emergence of conceptual art movement in Canada during the late sixties, NE. Thing Co. used corporate strategies to generate and frame its artistic practice.[2]
History
Founded in 1966 by Iain and Ingrid Baxter, N.E. Thing Co. was established as a conceptual vehicle that viewed the art world as "parallel [to] consumer culture."[3] N.E. Thing Co. was incorporated under the Companies Act in 1969.[4] Focusing on an interdisciplinary practice and using photography, site-specific performances and installation, N.E. Thing Co. is seen as a "key catalyst and influence for Vancouver photoconceptualism"[5] and is considered a precursor to the Vancouver School.[6] N.E. Thing Co. created some of the earliest photoconceptual works to display a tendency to use photography to document "idea-works and their sites, as language games and thematic inventories and as reflective investigations of the social and architectural landscape."[7]
N.E. Thing Co. disbanded in 1978 when Iain and Ingrid ended their relationship.[8]
Notes
- ^ Derek Knight, N.E. Thing Co: The Ubiquitous Concept, 6
- ^ Derek Knight, N.E. Thing Co: The Ubiquitous Concept, 6-7
- ^ Knight, Derek (1995). N.E. Thing Co.: The Ubiquitous Concept. Oakville, Ont.: Oakville Galleries. pp. 5. ISBN 0921027567.
- ^ Knight, Derek (1995). N.E. Thing Co.: The Ubiquitous Concept. Oakville, Ont.: Oakville Galleries. pp. 5. ISBN 0921027567.
- ^ Knight, Derek (1995). N.E. Thing Co.: The Ubiquitous Concept. Oakville, Ont.: Oakville Galleries. pp. 6. ISBN 0921027567.
- ^ Wallace, Ian. "Photo Conceptual Art in Vancouver." Thirteen Essays on Photography. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1990. 94. ISBN 088884557X
- ^ Wallace, Ian. "Photo Conceptual Art in Vancouver." Thirteen Essays on Photography. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1990. 96-7. ISBN 088884557X
- ^ Knight, Derek (1995). N.E. Thing Co.: The Ubiquitous Concept. Oakville, Ont.: Oakville Galleries. pp. 6. ISBN 0921027567.
Bibliography
- Baxter, Iain and Ingrid Baxter. You Are Now in the Middle of a N.E. Thing Co. Landscape: Works by Iain and Ingrid Baxter, 1965-1971. Vancouver: The Gallery, 1993. ISBN 0888652968
- Knight, Derek, Iain Baxter and Ingrid Baxter. N.E. Thing Co: The Ubiquitous Concept. Oakville, Ont.: Oakville Galleries, 1995. ISBN 0921027567
- Mewburn, Charity. Sixteen Hundred Miles North of Denver. Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1999. ISBN 0888656068
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