Students at the Centre for Ideas at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Central Academy of Fine Art Beijing and Goldsmiths College, London, are participating in an international project called âdo itâ. The project started as a discussion between the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier, and the writer Hans Ulrich Obrist, in 1993 at the Café Select in Paris. Their discussion focused on the use of written instructions to make works of art in an effort to observe the effects of translation. It was noted that written instructions for artists were analogous to musical scores, which like music, go though countless variations and interpretations each time they are performed. Since 1993 do it has grown in stages, springing up around the world in 45 museums and cultural centres around Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia. Artists and thinkers from Yoko Ono, Louise Bourgeois and Thomas Hirschhorn to Antonio Negri have written or drawn instructions for artists to follow. The instructions have been collected into a book âpart manual, part cookbook, part do-it-yourself kitâ. Instructions are also uploaded into do it at e-flux on-line. http://www.e-flux.com/projects/do_it/homepage/do_it_home.html

Yours sincerely,
Dr Elizabeth Presa

Head of the Centre for Ideas
The Victorian College of the Arts

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