Joe Scanlan, DIY
Artist’s book
Our engagement
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Content description
DIY presents—in extremely dry and methodical detail—a plan for how to go into any IKEA store in the world and buy materials with which to build your own coffin. As is the case with all Do-It-Yourself projects, some basic skills and tools are required. In the most basic sense, then, DIY is a shopping guide, a manifesto for how to get what you want from the world of commerce rather than having to accept what it wants give you, an epic tale about the transformation of mundane merchandise into a transcendental escape vehicle. DIY also features a guest appearance by AnnLee, a Japanese manga character owned, operated and ultimately put out of commission by Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno.
Technical description
Finish: Softcover
Number of pages: 112
Dimensions: 21 x 15 cm
Release date: 2002
ISBN: 90-72191-99-4
Nur code: Art, Conceptual
Publisher: Imschoot, uitgevers