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Hans Ulrich Obrist
Do it ! (extended version), 2005
Book, publication by Revolver, Frankfurt
»do it stems from an open exhibition model, an exhibition in progress. Individual
instructions can open empty spaces for occupation and invoke possibilities for the
interpretations and rephrasing of artworks in a totally free manner. The diverse cities
in which do it takes place actively construct the artwork context and endow it with
their individual marks or distinctions. It is important to bear in mind that do it is less
concerned with copies, images, or reproductions of artworks, than with human interpretation.
No artworks are shipped to the venues, instead everyday actions and materials
serve as the starting point for the artworks to be recreated at each ‘performance
site’ according to the artists’ written instructions. The essential nature of this activity
is imprecise and can be located somewhere between permutation and negotiation
within a field of tension described by repetition and difference. Meaning is multiplied
as the various interpretations of the texts accumulate in venue after venue.« - Hans
Ulrich Obrist, do it: The Exhibition Between Actualization and Virtualization, Repetition
and Difference (http://e-flux.com/projects/do_it/itinerary/ introduction.html).
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