“Two presidents of N. E. Thing Co. Ltd. walked in circular fashion around the outside perimeter of the town of Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada, inside the Arctic Circle. (140 photos were taken of one of the presidents walking by the other president. Total distance of the circular walk was 3 1/2 miles, measured by pedometer, and total number of steps necessary to accomplish the walk was 10,314)”. (Kynaston Mcshine in Information)

“The Arctic work, as well as other landscape pieces, were accompanied by standard road and geographical maps that the Baxters marked with instructions and drawings. In doing so they transformed official maps from representations of regulated and unidimensional space into dynamic and contingent space. By inflecting mapmaking practice with their actual experience of and activities in Inuvik, the Baxters transformed abstract and instrumentalizing concepts into the realm of the everyday, disrupting the objectivity of the rationalized grid that presupposes a homogeneous subject, and a static space that ignores time and history.” (Nancy Shaw)

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• McSHINE, Kynaston L. (ed.). Information. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1970, p.90.
• SHAW, Nancy. Siting the banal: The expanded landscapes of the N.E. Thing Co. In: Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. Available in: https://vancouverartinthesixties.com/essays/siting-the-banal