Page 54 - Studio International - April 1970

revolution,' says the President. What is claimed as the cop. A Noland chevron had its stripes extended 15 ft. in
first 'environment' in Canada, and, according to Tom each direction, a 'carrying case' was made for a Warhol
Wolfe, the first public celebration of McLuhanism, was pillow, and a Larry Bell glass box was reconstructed in
'Bagged Place'. Bagging, as opposed to wrapping, is a collapsing clear vinyl. The Cops have been some of the
North American habit that puts things into their own Company's most formally significant products, playing
space. In 1966 the Company put everything commonly with perception as much as idea.
found in a four-room suite into plastic bags. Polythene,
a sensuous but cool medium, came between people and
their environment. Since that year projections have
ranged from a white vinyl cap cover for a Rocky
Mountain, to be put on when the snow melts, to 'Flow
Move', a very slow kinetic piece, steel poles being
embedded 50 ft. apart in the Athabasca Glacier, to be
revealed in series as the Glacier retreats. Latest com-
pleted projects have been the construction of two tim-
ber frame walls and a floor on a hillside, and the burial
of a deflated thing, to be dug up, inflated and re-
buried on the moon in a hundred years time.

lain Baxter, President of N.E. Thing Co. with 'Carrying case
for Andy Warhol pillow 1966' air vinyl, cloth, 30 x 48 x 24 in.
N.E. Thing Co.

Printing Department
Deals with the third print of a movie, prints in the snow
and the imprint left when an object has been lying on a
lawn. The department produced Piles, a portfolio of
photographs of natural piles, of logs, coils of wire,
doughnuts, fifty-nine of them in all. It will also re-
present the Company at Sao Paulo with the products of
ACT and ART, the two most recently formed depart-
ments.
N.E. Thing Co. 'Frame construction-2 walls and a floor' 1968,
all 12x 12 using 2 x 4 lumber

Cop Department
Concerns itself with the work of other artists, which it
may choose to extend, invert, disassemble or otherwise

Studies for products of Cop Dept. 1966

N.E. Thing Co. 'Chain-taut' 1966-8, Mount Seymour, British
Columbia, 25 ft chain in. gauge, two heavy-gauge turnbuckles,
two heavy-gauge eye screws