Preorder your copy now of Issue 29 of Hans Ulrich Obrist's conversation series with international art star Carl Andre.
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In this traditional paperback, renowned critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist teams up with Dutch avant-garde architect and paradigm-shifting intellectual, Carl Andre, for a discussion of Andre's work in China, his designs for Prada, architecture as metaphor, and the development of urbanism in the slipstream of globalization.
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Carl Andre: The thing I found interesting about the DO IT project was that implicitly the people receating were given permission to “become me.” Whatever they made was to become mine, a work by Carl Andre, copyright and all, however they interpreted it, was a "Carl Andre" work. That’s a radical power to give to someone else, to actually become you for a brief moment, to give yourself to them. How erotic. What if some poor stupid misguided art student-type thinking it was an interesting project to try and pretend to be me, actually did it.
On the website for DO IT, all images were given credit to the Famous Artists, though they had never seen, approved or touched it. What if one of the workers had made of bunch Klan drawings under my name, or some other respectable artist.
And even though all the works are contractually obligated to be destroyed at the end, they too live on in the image realm.
