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Iain Baxter& |
project: Techno Compost |
Techno-Compost,
1996 |
Various
materials, 177.8 x 362 x 256.5 cm.
Ever mindful of the issues at stake in consumer
society, Baxter& has produced several works
and taken various actions that speak to his commitment
as an artist, often anchored in a socio-economic,
consumerist reality. In 1996 he developed the first
version of the installation Techno Compost,
in the atrium of a shopping mall. Simple in design,
consisting of a chain-link enclosure set up in the
public space, the installation-in-progress provided
curious passers-by with a striking vision: a graveyard
of electronic and computer gear. Moreover, the content
of the piece was designed to “self-develop,”
with members of the public invited to throw their
own obsolete electronic equipment onto the heap.
This collectively designed sculpture is about the
rapid obsolescence of these devices, victims of
the furious advance of technology. Here the aesthetic
experience consists in watching this strange sculptural
assembly takes shape. |

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