Hans Ulrich Obrist / Do it: the compendium
OBRIST Hans Ulrich (Zürich, 1968), New York, Independent Curators International / D.A.P., 2013, 25,5x20 cm., softcover, pp. 448, typographic cover, tens of illustration through the pages. Foreword and Acknowledgments by Kate Fowle and Frances Wu Giarratano, essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bruce Altshuler (Art by Istruction and the Pre-History of do it), Virginia Pérez-Ratton (do it at TEOR/éTica), interviews by Hu Fang and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Why do it Chinese Version?) and Elizabeth Presa and Hans Ulrich Obrist (The Evolution of do it). Progress repost by Kate Fowle and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Volume of compendium of the "Do it" project by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier.
OBRIST Hans Ulrich (Zürich, 1968), New York, Independent Curators International / D.A.P., 2013, 25,5x20 cm., softcover, pp. 448, typographic cover, tens of illustration through the pages. Foreword and Acknowledgments by Kate Fowle and Frances Wu Giarratano, essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bruce Altshuler (Art by Istruction and the Pre-History of do it), Virginia Pérez-Ratton (do it at TEOR/éTica), interviews by Hu Fang and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Why do it Chinese Version?) and Elizabeth Presa and Hans Ulrich Obrist (The Evolution of do it). Progress repost by Kate Fowle and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Volume of compendium of the "Do it" project by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier.
OBRIST Hans Ulrich (Zürich, 1968), New York, Independent Curators International / D.A.P., 2013, 25,5x20 cm., softcover, pp. 448, typographic cover, tens of illustration through the pages. Foreword and Acknowledgments by Kate Fowle and Frances Wu Giarratano, essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bruce Altshuler (Art by Istruction and the Pre-History of do it), Virginia Pérez-Ratton (do it at TEOR/éTica), interviews by Hu Fang and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Why do it Chinese Version?) and Elizabeth Presa and Hans Ulrich Obrist (The Evolution of do it). Progress repost by Kate Fowle and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Volume of compendium of the "Do it" project by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier.
"That's really the origin of do it. It is intended to use the potential of a truly transnational dialogue, but not bind the exhibition to constraints that could prevent it from traveling freely. The project also connects to endeavors of curators like Brian O'Doherty, Seth Siegelaub, and Lucy Lippard, who worked with the dematerialization of art and also supported the idea that a book can be an exhibition. For me, this freeing of constraints began with my experiences as a teenager. I was sixteen or seventeen when I first entered the art world and started making studio visits. For about five years I traveled around in a very old-fashioned way, on night trains, on a kind of grand tour where I just looked, and looked, and looked again. That was when I met Christian Boltanski. It's also when I met Peter Fischli and David Weiss, and they sent me to Alighiero Boetti: do it would not exist without these encounters." Hans Ulrich Obrist
