In September 2014, Josephine Higgins hosted and curated the DO IT exhibition at the Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town. This ongoing project, started in 1993 by Hans-Ulrich Orbrist, emphasises art making as instruction. Artists are invited to contribute art instructions which are added to an archive of instructions that can be enacted and re-interpreted every time the exhibition is hosted and re-enacted.
As one of the 22 artists invited to take part in this re-enactment, I was given instructions by Anette Messenger and Sophia Al Maria to interpret.

For the Annette Messenger instruction which asked you to sign your name in as many different ways as possible, I used my ambidextrous process as a response and set up an interactive drawing space in the exhibition where visitors were invited to attempt to sign there name with all four limbs at once.

DO IT - Annette Messenger Untitled (Signatures) 1993
DO IT - Annette Messenger Untitled (Signatures) 1993

Katherine Bull
Interactive drawing performance
2014

(photograph by Josephine Higgins)


(photograph by Katherine Bull)


(photograph by Katherine Bull)


(photograph by Katherine Bull)

I created two works in response to Sophie A Marias instruction of taking photographs of satellite TV channels chosen by using the Fibonacci number sequence. The first one I followed here instructions closely and created a collage of images printed from photographs taken from the TV screen. Arranged in the Fibonacci spiral pattern. For the second response, I surfed the channels and painted from watching the channels live as watercolours for the ammount of time the channel number suggested.

DO IT - Sophia Al Maria -

Katherine Bull
watercolour on paper
collage
2014

(photograph by Josephine Higgins)

do_it_instructions.pdf