TEOR/Tica: DO IT
By NY arts
This project began in 1993 of a conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator of the Modern Art Museum of Paris and artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier. Since then it has been executed in dozens of museums and exhibition spaces around the world.
It consists of a series of "do-it-yourself" instructions put forward by artists to be carried out by the institution�s staff.
This project aims to question the notion of authorship; instructions give birth to diverse interpretations greatly influenced by different contexts; it is therefore an exhibition in progress.
On this ocassion, due to the fact that TEOR/�Tica�s staff is relatively small, a number of collaborators have been invited; students, board members, journalists, waiters and friends, all of them related with TEOR/�Tica in one way or another.
New instructions have been created by central american artists; among them
Federico Herrero (El amigo secreto, Secret friend), Fabio Herrera (El
deseo, Desire) , Marisel Jimenez (Las formas hablan de s� mismas, Forms
speak about themselves), Priscilla Monge (La Barata), Humberto V�lez (Los
celadores, The caretakers), Joaqu�n Rodriguez del Paso (Todos los Ticos
del mundo, All the Ticos of the world), Cecilia Paredes (A lo mejor soy
otro, Maybe I�m somemeone else), A153167 (Se alquila, For rent), Ra�l
Quintanilla (Banana republics) and Xenia Mej�a (Un velo de fantas�a nubla
la mente de la abeja reina, A veil of fantasy clouds the mind of the queen
bee).
For more information visit http://www.e-flux.com
TEOR/�Tica
Apdo. 4009-1000 San Jos�, Costa Rica
tel/fax: (506) 233-4881
e: teoretica@amnet.co.cr
