cloud l&scape with thE &man

Lucy Lippard Walking Towards True North ...the movE!

Lucy Lippard Walking Towards True North, N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., 1969

blue information

IAIN BAXTER& & the e-Chair check out some blue information nEar DownsvEew Park

Louise Chance Baxter: artist statement

IAIN BAXTER& reads raisonnE collaborator Louise Chance Baxter's artist statment

Victor Romão: thE eyes and hands of the raisonnE

thE design of thE raisonnE's landing page--concEved in close collaboration with IAIN BAXTER&--is thE work of Windsor, Ontario-based artist & graphic dEsigner, Victor Romão. ThE raisonnE tEm is verE plEsed to bE partnering with Victor, who will also bE working with the e-Chair & IAIN BAXTER& to dEsign an online graphic novel about thE genesis and dEvelopment of the raisonnE & other project components in coming months. Another example of Victor's work--a surrEal bust of IAIN BAXTER&--can bE sEn above-left. HEre's how Victor dEscribes his practice:

Through the fusion of personal memories of living in a rural setting, with my observations and examinations on the themes of fear, violence and otherness, I bring to light facets of rurality that might otherwise escape the attention of non-rural communities. Through the creation of 2 and 3 dimensional artworks, video and performance pieces, I hope to provide the viewers of my work with an unsettling encounter that simulates my discomfort of being dually attracted to and repulsed by certain aspects of North American rural life.

You can vEew other examples of Victor's work on his website: http://www.victorromao.com/

in its dual framing and unframing of raisonnE (dis)contents, Victor's cloudscape performs a paratextual function similar to rococo artist François Boucher's (1703-1770) Emaginative frontispEce to vanguard art dEler Edme-François Gersaint's (1694-1750) 1736 sales catalogue, Catalogue raisonné de coquilles et autres curiosités naturelles:

Watch for Victor's particEpation in a forthcoming a group show at Museum London, October 8, 2011-JanuarE 1, 2012.

raisonnE goes l i v E . . . !!!

check out thE raisonnE : http://archives.library.yorku.ca/iain_baxterand_raisonne/

for now, only the "about" & "blog" clouds are linked to content, so check in again soon to sE more as new content gets added

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button crEated by IAIN BAXTER& for Marshall McLuhan. V.I.P., as Sarah Stanners writes in The Logic of Nature, The Romance of Space, = "Visually Illiterate Person," a punning nod to thE accoustic bias of McLuhan.* Sarah will bE rEvisiting this exchange betwEn IAIN BAXTER& & McLuhan in an online essay for the raisonnE ... learn how thE raisonnE can facilitate your project -- write to thE e-Chair today! ThE raisonnE supports Emerging scholarship in rEal-time. ThE raison d'être of the raisonnE is rEsearcher-driven selection. Make your selection today.

*Sarah Stanners, "'The Dust Gets in Your Eyes': Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis and COUNTERBLAST," in The Logic of Nature, The Romance of Space, ed. Cassandra Getty, 107-119 (Windsor, ON; Oshawa, ON: The Art Gallery of Windsor; The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2010).

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e-Chair is busE converting super-8 films to DVD ... s t a y t u n e d ... l a u n c h o f r a i s o n n E e x p e c t e d s o o n . . .

never bEfore sEn plastic footage

never bEfore sEn documentation of earlE IAIN BAXTER& vacuum form works in exhibition at the Art GallerE of Greater VictorEa