DOING SOMETHING
Founded in a graveyard, Doing Something is a new Oxford-based collective concerned with how to escape
Comprising curator/art historian Dr Sofya Dmitrieva, artist J Jiang, and artist/researcher Vincent Straub, Doing Something embraces a conceptual, multimedia, and performance-based approach to making art.
Individually, their past and ongoing work is informed by theory, dialectics, on-site experimentation, and careful observation of ‘development’ across contemporary art, technology, and wider society.
With situated knowledge across art history, fine art, performing arts, computer, social, and health sciences, Doing Something’s collaborative ethos is thoroughly multidisciplinary, experimental, and iterative.
Whilst bringing together lived experience and identities from diverse parts of the world, the collective is acutely focused on responding to the universal ‘present situation’, both in the UK and the world at large.
A strong interest is understanding, unworlding, and reconceptualising that which remains stubbornly human in a global context increasingly automated by machines.
Inspired by archives, collections, and crypts, Doing Something sees their work not as place-based or site-specific, but a record in time capturing current human activity; in this vein, Doing Something views their very foundation as their first joint work.