June – August 1998, Colorado

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art

The international traveling exhibition conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist in 1993, an open exhibition model which travels as a set of instructions by artists chosen by Obrist in the do it book.  Instructions can open empty spaces for occupation and invoke possibilities for the interpretation and rephrasing of artworks in a totally free manner.  do it effects interpretations based on location, and calls for a dovetailing of local structures with the artworks themselves.  The diverse cities in which do it takes place, actively construct the artwork context and endow it with their individual marks or distinctions.  For example, some of the artists’ instructions are relational in that they construct bridges between various communities and performance sites.