Do it : the compendium / edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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TextPublication details: New York : Independent Curators International ; Distributed Art Publishers, ©2013.Description: 448 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: - 1938922018
- 9781938922015
- 708 OBR
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 708 OBR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100562009 |
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Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, 'Do It' began in Paris in 1993 as a conversation between the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier and Obrist himself, who was experimenting with how exhibition formats could be rendered more flexible and open ended. The discussion led to the question of whether a show could take 'scores' or written instructions by artists as a point of departure, which could be interpreted anew each time they were enacted. To test the idea, Obrist invited 13 artists to send instructions, which were then translated into nine different languages and circulated internationally as a book. Within two years, 'Do It' exhibitions were being created all over the world by realizing the artists' instructions. With every version of the exhibition new instructions were added, so that today more than 300 artists have contributed to the project. Constantly evolving and morphing into different versions of itself, 'Do It' has grown to encompass 'Do It (Museum)', 'Do It (Home)', 'Do It (TV)', 'Do It (Seminar)' as well as some 'Anti-Do Its', a 'Philosophy Do It' and, most recently, a 'UNESCO Children's Do It'. Nearly 20 years after the initial conversation took place, 'Do It' has been featured in at least 90 different locations worldwide. To mark the twentieth anniversary of this landmark project, this new publication presents the history of this ambitious enterprise and gives new impetus to its future. It includes an archive of artists' instructions, essays contextualizing 'Do It', documentation and photographs from the history of the exhibition and new instructions by 50 artists from all over the world selected by Obrist.
Foreword and acknowledgments / Kate Fowle, Frances Wu Giarratano -- Introduction / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Art by instruction and the pre-history of do it / Bruce Altshuler -- Progress report / Kate Fowle, Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Artist instructions / Artists A-Z -- Essay and interviews -- Do it at TEOR/éTica / Virginia Pérez-Ratton -- Why do it Chinese version? / Hu Fang, Hans Ulrich Obrist -- The evolution of do it / Elizabeth Presa, Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Appendix: list of venues, artist index.
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, \'Do It\' began in Paris in 1993 as a conversation between the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier and Obrist himself, who was experimenting with how exhibition formats could be rendered more flexible and open-ended. The discussion led to the question of whether a show could take scores or written instructions by artists as a point of departure, which could be interpreted anew each time they were enacted. To test the idea, Obrist invited 13 artists to send instructions, which were then translated into nine different languages and circulated internationally as a book. Within two years, \'Do It\' exhibitions were being created all over the world by realizing the artists\' instructions. With every version of the exhibition new instructions were added, so that today more than 300 artists have contributed to the project.