#fluxist

As addressed in Roe’s quote on understanding researchers, we’ve definitely had to keep in mind the ‘use and users’ with this collection.  In building our simple finding aids and bibliographic description, we’ve kept these in mind:

http://www.e-flux.com/projects/do_it/manuals/0_manual.html

do it: the exhibition between actualization and virtualization, repetition and difference.  do it began in 1993 with a discussion among Christian Boltanski, Bertrand Lavier, and myself in the Cafe Select, Paris. Both artists have been interested in various forms of instructional procedures since the early 1970s, and that evening they spoke of the instructions contained within their own work.  Since the 1970s Lavier has made many works that contain written instructions in order to observe the effects of translation on an artwork as it moves in and out of various permutations of language. Boltanski, like Lavier, is also interested in the notion of interpretation as an artistic principle. He thinks of his instructions for installations as analogous to musical scores which, like an opera or symphony, go through countless realisations as they are carried out and interpreted by others. From this encounter arose the idea of an exhibition of do-it-yourself descriptions or procedural instructions which, until a venue is found, exists in a static condition. Like a musical score, everything is there but the sound.  ... No two interpretations of the same instructions are ever identical.  Hans Ulrich Obrist |

Disclaimer: Religious and political views expressed on this site are those only of the invited author/s, they do not represent or bare claim to views or opinions of e-flux.com. Executing any of the instructions on this website is entirely at your own risk. Conditions: Should you decide to make this instruction, please send us a picture, your name and the instruction's reference number, and it will probably be added to this page.

SAMPLES:

dance with a large piece of chalk mark up the nearest surface and pay attention to the movement of your feet music optional |

Wait for a sunny day Look for a field full of clovers Make sure there are no sheep or cows grazing in the field Walk slowly into the field Keep your eyes absolutely focussed on the clovers Try not to tread on them See the clover with the four leaves Pick it  Press it in a book|

- Read newspaper - Spring from chair and let the opened newspaper lie on the table - Run for your life around your best friend's house - Whistle and throw a stone up against her window - Wait till she opens the window - Shout up to her that our common idol has died - Cry together |