"Do It

May 5, 2002 10:03 PM

"Do It is a manual of artist's instructions for you to actualize. It includes works by over 60 contemporary artists ... Once you have actualized an instruction, please send us a picture and your name, we will include it in the manual" I dont know about you, but I'm going to go get some boards and a bunch of bugs to squash right now - for Baldessari, of course. [via caterina]
posted by vacapinta (2 comments total)

Interesting idea, and some of the instructions—of the ones that are actually doable—seem neat. So far, I especially like Roald Hoffman's Untitled.

Baldessari's little project on the other hand, is quite simply fucked. I'm the last person to get all tree-huggy about not killing bugs, although I do avoid it. This is just cruelty, on no less a scale than beating the shit out of a puppy(or whatever particular creature just melts your heart) with a stick, and then going out to find another.
With the exception of one(that I'm aware of) piece, even Damien Hirst has stuck with using things that are already dead.
posted by Su at 1:36 AM on May 6, 2002

Skallas, there's a show called Big Brother that's tailor made for people like you. About twenty minutes into the first UK show they did exactly that.
posted by vbfg at 3:21 AM on May 6, 2002