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do it
Get creative with DIY instructions from world-class artists, musicians and designers
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Free your inner artist
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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Brand new 'do its'
Get creative with new do its published weekly
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A new 'do it' from BTS
The KPOP sensations on how to build a beautiful future
BTS (2020)
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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
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'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
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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Untitled
illustration
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
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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)
Video
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
Untitled
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
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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