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

1. ^ Derek Knight, N.E. Thing Co: The Ubiquitous Concept, 6
2. ^ Derek Knight, N.E. Thing Co: The Ubiquitous Concept, 6-7
3. ^ Knight, Derek (1995). N.E. Thing Co.: The Ubiquitous Concept. Oakville, Ont.: Oakville Galleries. pp. 5. ISBN 0921027567. 
4. ^ Knight, Derek (1995). N.E. Thing Co.: The Ubiquitous Concept. Oakville, Ont.: Oakville Galleries. pp. 5. ISBN 0921027567. 
5. ^ Knight, Derek (1995). N.E. Thing Co.: The Ubiquitous Concept. Oakville, Ont.: Oakville Galleries. pp. 6. ISBN 0921027567. 
6. ^ Wallace, Ian. "Photo Conceptual Art in Vancouver." Thirteen Essays on Photography. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1990. 94. ISBN 088884557X
7. ^ Wallace, Ian. "Photo Conceptual Art in Vancouver." Thirteen Essays on Photography. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1990. 96-7. ISBN 088884557X
8. ^ 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

External links

• N.E. Thing Co. Profile page at the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Bio Info and Collection of Images.
• VOX gallery Bio page with Text and Images.
• Iain Baxter& Profile page at the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Bio Info and Collection of Images.
• Shaw, Nancy. Sitting the Banal: The Expanded Landscape of N.E. Thing Co. essay at vancouver in the sixties website. Academic article contextualising NETCO's practice.
• Mewburn, Charity. Sixteen Hundred Miles North of Denver. Exhibition essay from Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery solo show.

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