Wake up you sleepy head, Put on some clothes, Shake up your bed!

Our current project, and the first time we use instructions between ourselves to generate artwork. Currently living in different countries, we see instructions as a method to work across distance. Our motivation is focused on the collaborative experience itself - which takes the form of confronting the other with unexpected challenges in the form of instructions.

The procedure is simply: on regular basis we will post (airmail) an instruction to our partner. The receiver/interpreter will then be responsible for the actual materialization of the idea.

Conceptually, the core of this project is the tension between ideation and material realization. Pieces are created by being imaging but as instructions for physical action they also declare a further claim in the world.

Some instructions:

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Take a picture of a stone everyday for a month

Make a flipbook

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Ride your bike for 15 minutes and try to end in a place you have never been.

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Send an application for an art exhibition that you will never get accepted,

Keep a copy

Frame it

Show it on the first exhibition place you get accepted

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You need: superglue, temperament and two Bordalo Pinheiro pieces.

In a moment of frustration, break the two items. Then, when you are ready, make use of the glue and make the two ceramic pieces become one.