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

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The KPOP sensations on how to build a beautiful future

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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