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Simple instructions for you to interpret your own way

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What is a 'do it'?

Since 1993, Hans Ulrich Obrist has invited artists across the world to create DIY artworks that anyone can try

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A new 'do it' from BTS

The KPOP sensations on how to build a beautiful future

BTS (2020)

BTS

Make a wish with Yoko Ono

The influential artist with 13 number-one singles helps you to hope

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Wish Piece (1996)

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Yoko Ono Shows You How to Fly

Gilbert & George's rules to live by

Top ten tips from the dapper pair of living sculptures

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Ten Commandments for Gilbert and George (1995)

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Watch Gilbert & George Read Their Commandments

Set the table with Tracey Emin

A guide to making your own installation with the Turner Prize nominee

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Cook with Marina Abramović

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A Recipe with a Difference From the Godmother of Performance Art

'do it' with food

Get experimental in the kitchen

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do it number 57

Bertrand Lavier

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"Untitled' (1994)

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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Gilding the lily part II (2005)

Cedric Price

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Make Chard Stem Gratin With Agnès Varda

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Follow Agnès Varda's Process In Pictures

Rirkrit Tiravanija cooks up some flavor

The contemporary artist who blends art and life

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The Recipe

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The Mouth-Watering Method

DIY challenges with nature

Get in touch with your green side

Nairy Baghramian

Dig a Hole, Plant a Seed

Thao Nguyen Phan

To Create Sympathy in the Home

Jimmie Durham

To Create Sympathy in the Home

Jimmie Durham

To Create Sympathy in the Home

Jimmie Durham

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Do The Planetary Dance With Anna Halprin (Part 1)

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Do The Planetary Dance With Anna Halprin (Part 2)

Olafur Eliasson's 'do it' for Earth Day

See the world in a new light with the iconic artist

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Earth perspectives, 1/9 The Earth viewed over the Great Barrier Reef

Earth perspectives, 2/9: The Earth viewed over the Mariana Trench

Earth perspectives, 3/9: The Earth viewed over Yakutia, Siberia

Earth perspectives, 4/9: The Earth view above the Ganges River, India

Earth perspectives, 5/9: The Earth view above the Simien Mountains, Ethiopia

Earth perspectives, 6/9: The Earth view above Chernobyl, Pripyat, Ukraine

Earth perspectives, 7/9: The Earth view above the Greenland Ice Sheet

Earth perspectives, 8/9: The Earth view above Ecuador

Earth perspectives, 9/9: The Earth view above the South Pole

Start a garden with Precious Okoyomon

Face your fears with the poet who spent a year in silence

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Okoyomon's Floral Inspiration To Get You Growing

Stage a diversion with Yto Barrada

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Create a New Government with Acrobatics

Visual artist and cofounder of the Cinémathèque de Tanger on how to use a human pyramid for political gain

Eileen Myles on how to run for president

The punk poet helps you get your campaign started

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How To Run for President... (1995)

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Eileen Myles Guides You Through The Instructions

Nancy Spero's do it for women

A liberating task from a leading figure in 1960s the feminist art movement

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Sheela (na-gig) at Home (1995)

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Nancy Spero's Hangs Primal Magic on Her Clothesline

Musical do its

Exercise your ears with these musical challenges

Instruction (2002)

Joan Jonas

Study for time

Cildo Meireles

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Füsun Onur

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David Lamelas

(Counterspace)

Sumayya Vally

Untitled (Voices): Digital Version (2002)

Mike Kelley

The Humming Room

By Adrian Piper

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Chino Amobi invites you to a prayer

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Write a prayer for the world in an arcane language

Chino Amobi

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Score the prayer with a talisman you find in your home

Listen to Chino Amobi's score

David Lynch tells you a poem

Four rows of five, your rickies come alive

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Make a Collage That Comes Alive With Your Imagination

Follow the instructions of the surrealist filmmaker behind Twin Peaks and Eraserhead

Jonas Mekas on how to start your day

The only morning exercise you need from the godfather of American avant-garde cinema

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Instruction

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Jonas Mekas Demonstrates the Move

Théâtre du Châtelet

A new do it collection imagined by students from the Ecole de Beaux-Arts de Paris, Mohamed Bourouissa, Clément Cogitore and Kwame Kwei-Armah

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Bring art into your world with Independent Curators International

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Lynn Hershman Leeson

Three How To Projects for Art Production in Domestic Spaces

Critical Art Ensemble

Instruction

Pascale Marthine Tayou

The Masque-Culotte

Simone Forti

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Lucy R. Lippard

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Independent Curators International

Turn not cleaning into an art experience or watch TV in a new way

do it from Paris

Explore the instructions commissioned by Théâtre du Châtelet

À mesure (2020)

Raphael Maman

Comment matérialiser l’espace, ramener le paysage à soi, dans une manière simple (2020)

Joon-young Yoo

VISAS (2020)

Clement Cogitore

Kwame Kwei-Armah (2020)

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Variations régionales (2020)

Alice Narcy

Théâtre du Châtelet

A new do it collection imagined by students from the Ecole de Beaux-Arts de Paris, Mohamed Bourouissa, Clément Cogitore and Kwame Kwei-Armah

do it from Australia

Get creative with Kaldor Public Art Projects

Megan Cope

Janet Laurence

Saskia Havekes

Instruction

Glenn Murcutt

Recipe Piece

Lauren Brincat

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Kaldor Public Art Projects

Explore the collection of new do its commissioned for Kaldor Public Art Project 36: do it (australia)

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do it (around the world): public responses

A series of public responses to do it instructions

Dream with Carsten Holler

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Placing a Dream Order

The award-winning conceptual artist invites you to select your own sleep story

Creative challenges for the family

Playful 'do its' for all ages

DO IT YOURSELF (for children)*

RAQS Media Collective

Instruction (2002)

Louise Bourgeois

Instruction (2003)

Shimabuku

XXL Color Books (2001)

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Untitled (2019)

Carrie Mae Weems

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Meriem Bennani

Instruction

Marjetica Potrč

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Uri Aran

Homage to Each Red Thing (1996)

Alison Knowles

do it meets arts & crafts

Make your own masterpiece

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Become An Instant Artist

A do it by the celebrated Arab American author Etel Adnan

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Instructions To Make A Good Painting

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Koo Jeong A

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99 Cents (2020)

Torkwase Dyson

Create a crystal with Jenna Sutela

DIY art instructions from the Berlin-based Finnish artist

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Try it yourself

do it with your camera

A change from selfies and snaps of your sourdough

Shoot It (2004)

Cao Fei

Untitled

Instruction (1993)

Les Écoliers (The Schoolchildren)

Grab a mirror with Studio Formafantasma

Look at things from a new angle with the duo who've designed for Fendi and Hermès

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An example to inspire you

Bring your friends together with Max Hawkins

The nomadic artist and computer scientist wants you to introduce your contacts

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Try it yourself

Quick do its

For when you're busy but need a creative break

Instruction

Liam Gillick

Instruction

Joseph Grigley

Christodoulos Panayiotou

Shilpa Gupta

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Shilpa Gupta

Simone Forti

It's OK for Lovers (2001)

Koo Jeong A

Evan Ifekoya

Heman Chong

FACE THE DAILY FORCE...

Carrie Mae Weems

Shilpa Gupta

Make an animal smile

Please your pet with nature-loving artist Shimabuku

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Try it yourself

Find your inner alien with Arca

The record producer who's worked with Björk, Kanye West, FKA twigs, Kelela and Frank Ocean

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Arca

Ready to look inward?

Listen to the truth with Alvaro Barrington

The artist who combines his art with backlot concerts and Caribbean carnival floats

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Alvaro Barrington

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A Close Up Reading With Alvaro Barrington (part 1)

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A Close Up Reading With Alvaro Barrington (part 2)

Where the 'do it' began

The inspiration

The History of the 'do it' with Hans Ulrich Obrist

Learn how the movement got moving

Explore Han Ulrich Obrist's Archives

An interactive journey through exhibits by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Enter 'Ways of Curating'

Visit the Serpentine

Take a virtual tour of the installations and pavillions

ExploreSerpentine Pavilion 2016 designed by Bjarke Ingels

ExploreSerpentine Pavillion 2018 designed by Frida Escobedo

ExploreChristo's Mastaba, Serpentine Lake 2018

Explore more from the Serpentine Galleries

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