Figure 3 - available via license: CC BY-NC-ND
Content may be subject to copyright.
Iain Baxter, Non-Verbal Teaching ("Swimming on Dry Land"), ca. 1964-1966. Courtesy Iain Baxter& and Raven Row.
Source publication
Context in source publication
Context 1
... Bax- ter experimented with techniques of non-ver- bal pedagogy that radicalized McLuhan's cri- tique of print-based classroom procedure. In- corporating found objects gleaned from his ur- ban explorations, Baxter's lectures at UBC and later at Simon Fraser University (SFU) mimed a choreography of generic actions (such as "swimming on dry land, " Fig. 3) to a rigorous- ly abstract soundtrack of John Cage and Edgar Varèse (see Baigell and Smith 370). These in- terventions mounted a dramatic challenge to scriptural epistemology inspired by McLuhan's audile-tactile speculations and incorporating Edward T. Hall's insights on non-verbal com- munication (which, significantly, also served as ...
Similar publications
Cet article a pour but de traiter d’une question qui hante l’historiographie de la Renaissance portugaise depuis longtemps. Le magnifique groupe de terre cuite grandeur nature représentant la Cène dans le réfectoire du monastère de Santa Cruz de Coimbra est aujourd’hui l’un des chefs-d’oeuvre du musée Machado de Castro de la ville, ainsi qu’encore...
