Instruction art

Instruction based art is, unsurprisingly, when an artist creates a set of instruction for someone else to complete.       Instruction based art challenges notion of the art and artist. Are the instructions the art, or the act of someone following them (or both?). Is the artist the instructor or the instructee? Is the audience the person following the instructions, or someone watching them follow instructions? What if, like Marina Abramovich, the instructor and the instructee are the same person? How does the performance change if the instructions are designed for a specific person.      (For our purposes, its important to record how people follow the instructions, rather than just present a written set of instructions. Consider also the use of illustration or notation as a means of instruction.)  

Erwin Wurm: https://www.erwinwurm.at/artworks/one-minute-sculptures.html      

Do It (Hans Ulrich Obrist)  

Cao Fei: Shoot it (2004)  

Diller + Scofidio: Bad Press – Dissident Housework Series (2001)  

Gustav Klutsis: https://thecharnelhouse.org/2016/10/12/gustav-klutsis-revolutionary-propagandist-1895-1938/