Do it! Manchester Art Gallery and several artists currently invite their visitors to help make new art by taking part in an evolving exhibition created from a series of instructions which were written by artists that invite you to different things to do at the gallery and at home. Initiated by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist with artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 20 years ago, “do it” has been enacted in 50 different places, making it the widest-reaching and longest running “exhibition in progress” ever to occur. And great emphasis is put on participation at all times: Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2013, this new exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery premieres 70 brand new instructions. “do it 2013″ brings together a new generation of contemporary artists with artists who have been involved in the first experiments too.
Dozens of instructions have been written by international artists. You can now pick an instruction from the selection and join in by uploading your own response on the doit2013.org website. In addition to artists like Ai Weiwei, Adrian Piper, Tracey Emin and Richard Wentworth artist and widow of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, takes part in “do it 2013″ as well and asks us to circulate a picture of our smile to say, “Hello. How you doing?” Take part in it here!
do it 2013, 5 July - 22 September, Manchester Art Gallery and Manchester International Festival, in collaboration with Independent Curators International (ICI), New York.
Picture: Screenshot / doit2013.
