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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.