Do It
Berlin
e-flux, revolver and KW are pleased to announce a special launch of Do It, extended edition, a screening of Do It TV, a conversation with Bernadette Corporation, Jimmie Durham, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Emmet Williams, and a party – all to take place on Thursday, June 30th at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, starting 8 pm. All are welcome!
Do It, extended edition, follows the initial publication of the book last December, which has completely sold out. The extended edition includes new works by: Miriam Backstrom, Bernadette Corporation, Paul Chan, Karl Haendel, Cristina Iglesias, Mark Manders, Ernesto Neto, Philippe Rahm, Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, David Robbins, Juliao Sarmento, Shimabuku and Donald Urquhart.
11 segments of Do It TV, produced by the museum in progress, will be shown in conjunction with the e-flux video rental summer screening program at KW. The featured video instructions will include works by by Gilbert & George, Shere Hite, Ilya Kabakov, Jonas Mekas, Yoko Ono, Steven Pippin, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Michael Smith, Erwin Wurm (all available in the EVR shop).
The evening will continue with the second KW party with music by Julieta Aranda this year (following the legendary opening of EVR in March).
This event is made possible with kind support by agnes b
for further information please contact: fk@kw-berlin.de
about Do It:
With Do It in hand, you will be able to make a work of (someone else’s) art yourself. Do It began in 1993 with a discussion among Christian Boltanski, Bertrand Lavier and Hans Ulrich Obrist, and ever since has provided its public with how-to pages of instructions written by 182 of the most important artists and writers working today. Some of the projects are historic classics brought forward especially for the occasion, but most of the contributions being imagined here are new. Do it has grown in stages, springing up around the world in 45 museums and cultural centers in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia. The time has come to summarize the results in a book that is part manual, part cookbook, part do-it-yourself kit. Here it is. It has only just began!
Do It (extended edition)
edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist
published by e-flux/Revolver, New York/Frankfurt
388 pages, hard plastic cover, ISBN 3-86588-001-0
Design: Christoph Steinegger/Interkool
With contributions by:
Marina Abramovic, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Pawel Althamer, Carl Andre, John Armleder, David Askevold, Pablo Azul, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Joze Barsi , Dara Birnbaum, Michel Blazy, Mel Bochner, John Bock, Christian Boltanski, Inaki Bonillas, Louise Bourgeois, Joan Brossa, Mircea Cantor, Cao Fei, Maurizio Cattelan, John Chamberlain, Jay Chung, Amy E. Cohen and Francisco J. Varela, Douglas Coupland, Meg Cranston, Critical Art Ensemble, Minerva Cuevas, Tacita Dean, Wilson Diaz, Diller Scofidio, Trisha Donnelly, Heri Dono, Jimmie Durham, Maria Eichhorn, Olafur Eliasson, Elmgreen & Dragset, Ayse Erkmen, Tim Etchells, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Yona Friedman, Paul-Armand Gette, Jef Geys, Gilbert & George, Simryn Gill, Liam Gillick, Edouard Glissant, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Leon Golub, Douglas Gordon, Tomislav Gotovac, Dan Graham, Joseph Grigely, Ulrike Grossarth, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Richard Hamilton, Mona Hatoum, Federico Herrero, Roger Hiorns, Shere Hite, Richard Hoeck, Roald Hoffmann, Carsten Holler, Jonathan Horowitz, Hu Fang, Huang Yong Ping, Pierre Huyghe, Fabrice Hybert, Marisel Jimenez, Joan Jonas, Ilya Kabakov, Steve Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, Gulsun Karamustafa, Chitti Kasemkitvatana, Mike Kelley, Hassan Khan, Kim Soo-Ja, Ben Kinmont, Alison Knowles, Jiri Kolar, Julius Koller, Koo Jeong-a, Gabriel Kuri, Surasi Kusolwong, Bertrand Lavier, Xavier Le Roy, Sol LeWitt, Eric van Lieshout, Tzay-Chuen Lim, Annibal Lopez, Sylvere Lotringer, Jorge Macchi, Robert MacPherson, Christian Marclay, Enzo Mari, Eva Marisaldi, Chris Marker, Paul McCarthy, Cildo Meireles, Jonas Mekas, Feng Mengbo, Annette Messager, Olaf Metzel, John Miller, Jonathan Monk, Robert Morris, Valerie Mrejen, Otto Muhl, Eileen Myles, Deimantas Narkevicius , Antonio Negri, Max Neuhaus, Roman Ondak, Yoko Ono, Damian Ortega, Pepon Osorio, Nam June Paik, Lygia Pape, Philippe Parreno, Cesare Pietroiusti, Steven Pippin, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Tadej Pogacar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum, Marjetica Potrc, Cedric Price, Emilio Prini, Raul Quintanilla, David Reed, Tobias Rehberger, Pedro Reyes, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Martha Rosler, Ed Ruscha, Anri Sala, Sam Samore, Tomas Saraceno, Joe Scanlan, Tomas Schmit, Thomas Schutte, Tino Sehgal, Rupert Sheldrake, Andreas Slominski, Michael Smith, Nancy Spero, Bruce Sterling, Hugo Suter, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Yasunao Tone, Rosemarie Trockel, Uri Tzaig, Anton Vidokle, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Emmett Williams, Erwin Wurm, Cerith Wyn Evans, Yang Zhenzhong a special new bonus block with instructions by Miriam Backstrom, Bernadette Corporation, Paul Chan, Karl Haendel, Cristina Iglesias, Mark Manders, Ernesto Neto, Philippe Rahm, Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, David Robbins, Juliao Sarmento, Shimabuku and Donald Urquhart.
Made possible with generous support by Art Basel.
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To order the book online please go to: www.revolverlag.de
