Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 7: Net Era (1990s)

1994

First do it Exhibition Takes Place

Exhibition

An archival photograph from Independent Curators International's do it archive: a public do it event in a Central European square, with orange balloons printed 'do it'. ICI publishes the photograph without a caption or date, so it cannot be confirmed as the 1994 Klagenfurt exhibition.
An archival photograph from Independent Curators International's do it archive: a public do it event in a Central European square, with orange balloons printed 'do it'. ICI publishes the photograph without a caption or date, so it cannot be confirmed as the 1994 Klagenfurt exhibition. Independent Curators International, do it archive.

This open exhibition premiered in 1994 at the Ritter Kunsthalle in Klagenfurt after its conceptual roots were laid the previous year. Begun by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier, the first do it featured instruction-based work by artists such as Mike Kelley, Alison Knowles, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Jean-Jacques Rullier and Bertrand Lavier. The exhibitions were meant to encourage audience participation and interaction.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

Sources

People

Alison Knowles, Bertrand Lavier, Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jean-Jacques Rullier, Mike Kelley, Rirkrit Tiravanija

Movements

Interactive Art, Material Generative Art, Participatory Art, instruction art

Filed under

Ideas
audience participation, conceptual art, Interactive Art, interactivity, Material Generative Art, Participatory Art
People
Alison Knowles, Bertrand Lavier, Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jean-Jacques Rullier, Mike Kelley, Rirkrit Tiravanija
Works
do it
Organisations
Ritter Kunsthalle
Places
Klagenfurt
Other subjects
Lavier

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