Tours through 2021
to Iceland. Many new versions have appeared, including do it (museum), do it (home), do it (TV), do it (seminar), and an online do it in collaboration with e-flux. Every time it is presented, do it is reinterpreted anew, engaging the local community in a dialogue that responds to a set of instructions. A call to action, do it invites the presenting venues and visitors to take part, interpret, re-invent and generate ideas, creating new dynamic institutional and exhibition formats for years to come.
do it Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist do it began in 1993, the result of a conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier who mused about the potential of “scores,” or written instructions by artists, to create exhibition formats that could be more flexible and open-ended—exhibitions that would never stop. Since then, do it has become the longest-running and most far-reaching exhibition to ever happen—constantly generating new versions of itself. It has grown from a selection of 12 instructions to an ongoing project including over 400 artist-submitted instructions that have been carried-out at institutions all over the world from Austria to Australia, from Thailand to Uruguay, and from Canada
Yoko Ono, Wish Tree (1996). do it, installation view, Symfonik Fest - Gränslandet, Stockholm, 2019. Courtesy of Najda Sjöström.
Erwin Wurm, Untitled (1995). do it, installation view, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2014. Photo by Anton Silenin.
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