Sunday, January 22, 2012

CURATORIALtheses Galore

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 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 Hans Ulrich Obrist in the Cafe Select, Paris. So, far from being 'new' is quite 'old' but in quite a few ways the do it concept is still very close to the cutting edge by comparison with many current exhibition manifestations in museums. These initiating cultural speculators had 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... Click here to read more

1 comment:

male said...

thanks you done it
mal E + Bh
(Brisbane, downunder)