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Update #20: We Are So Happy!
Dear Generous and Patient Backer,
The art work is shipping and will continue to be shipped. And the saatchi designed website is looking really cool! (see screen shot below) This whole project is growing so much more than we dreamed. It has made us very happy because so many people want to collaborate and help, like you. It is like a scene from a fairy tale where it all works out and there is a touch of magic or disbelief attached that makes it all the more real and wondrous. It is art from the beginning to the end, and you are a visionary patron. We thank you for that.
On the website, note the non-visible description of itself, a text by the designer which we love;

Private parties, European Tours
We can't wait to tell you about the upcoming exhibitions and productions in Europe and the U.S. We will save that for the next update because it is a lot to tell and even more is being finalized as we write this. We have only you to thank for everything, and the physical form of our grattitude is in the pictures of the title cards of the first art works being shipped. (Pictures below)
With love and thanks,
Praxis

Update #19: Non-Visible Happy Holidays from MoNA
To see the MoNA card, click below
Update #18: We love you, We have Good and Bad News, It's that Time of Year Again :)

Do you want the good or bad news first?
Let’s do the bad to
get it over with. Some of the rewards, the conceptual works of art, may
take another week to get to you, but they are being made and packaged as
you read this. We have been waiting for a die to be cut for an embosser
and final design work on that, which is part of the authentication
letter.
The hand embosser that we waited for with our custom logo
that will seal the letters of authenticity that comes with the art,
looks super cool and was worth waiting for we think.
If that is the bad news, the good news must be pretty good, right?
It
is. The good news is that the MONA launch party which was going to be
in late 2011, is now something much, much, larger. Performance Space 122
in New York City is hosting the party and we have a yet-to-be-named
venue that you have never been to you before, that you will absolutely
love. The location is a secret for now, but the date is set for April
4th, 2012. We will tell you more details about the party soon, but
there is more news- in 2013, we will have a major MONA exhibition in NYC
that will be produced by Performance Space 122 and other collaborating
institutions. It is incredible how many people have come forward to help
us. We have a curator in Europe booking a tour of MONA next year, and
so who knows, we may come to your city soon!
More amazing news is
that the creative director, Tim Leake, at Saatchi and Saatchi has
finished the logos for MONA, (at the top of this update) and also designed all the art works as
well. For an agency that has a whole giant skyscraper in New York, we
think the result is understated and elegant. One version of the MONA
logo is below, but there is more to come, like the seal they designed
for the embossment on the authentication form.
Here is a sneak peak
at the website they designed, which is not live yet - with home page
words describing a non-visible home page- http://www.nonvisiblemuseum.com/wordpress
Our
new friends and board members of MONA have also helped us enormously in
many ways. Rita and James from Science House are like shining stars in
our firmament, as collectors and supporters, and Vallejo from
Performance Space 122 with his patience and vision is enabling rapid
growth of MONA, Doug Cooper for his advice and great writing on the
manifesto, Tim Leake from Saatchi for his designs, and conceptual ideas,
and all of you who have backed this project.
We have much more to tell you, but will save that for future updates.
We wish you all a very Merry, Happy, and Joyous holiday,
Praxis
Update #17: You WIll Have Your Work Before Xmas!
Dear Backers,
The art work (rewards) is being shipped this week and next week, so thank you for waiting!!
It has taken a little longer than we thought, but as you know the design firm Saatchi and Saatchi did the design work for us including a new website which should be up soon, but since they have been doing all of this out of the kindness of their hearts and spare time, it happened a little later than we thought.
There is more news to tell you, but for now we want you to know that you will get yours in the mail (if you were a backer) before Christmas.
Thank you for your support, we remain,
Gratefully Yours,
Praxis
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Joanna Liu on December 5
Sorry, I guess it should be the address that's associated with my amazon account....
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Brainard and Delia Carey on January 6
everyone should have gotten a survey, if you didn't, ask us, or it will be shipped to the amazon account related address!
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Update #16: Non-Visible News about News to Come and the Recent Past
Dear Backer,
Here is some news about news that is to come about the party and your rewards.
We have been in Ljubljana, Slovenia for a biennial for the past three and a half weeks and we had an amazing time there. We did a workshop for MONA where everyone in the workshop created non-visible at works. Some were spoken in a Slovene, others in English, but the Slovene videos were translated. Then we had a opening with all of the created non-visible works. Everyone was excited about it and we will probably be taking the workshop aspect of MONA on tour next year.
There is so much to tell. The Advertising firm Saatchi and Saatchi in NY is helping us with the design of everything and your rewards are still being designed believe it or not, and will be shipped in November, but we will give you another update on that.
The launch party is being planned for a date as we write this. We are looking at a few venues in Manhattan, and we want it to be really good, so we should have more news on that soon because it is not finalized yet.
We have also gotten invitations to speak and present MONA from all over the world, which is really exciting, but too much to tell in one update.
You should know, that MONA has become a magnet for wonderful things and this would not have happened without you.
Here is a video from the museum workshop a few weeks ago.
With Love,
Brainard and Delia (Praxis)
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Michael Shields on October 20, 2011
Wonder-Full!
Love you and all your creative energy!
I see you everywhere!
Michael,
Key West
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By Marie-Anne Mancio, Mixed media, Pocket Bible, part one, part two: Slide open these matchbox-sized balsa wood sculptures to reveal miniature silent films on a three-minute loop depicting The Burning Bush and The Parting of The Red Sea. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Praxis - Sculpture - Fur Balls - A sculpture, the size of a human head, but round, covered with human hair taken from wigs. There are 18 of these which can be arranged, according to the site in any order you wish, so you can imagine those sculptures in your own space. When you are describing the work to your friends, feel free to rearrange everything. The feeling from this work is attractive in one way (you want to pet those balls), but it is also repulsive in the sense that they look a bit like a dead animal. The owner of this artwork will receive a title card with a description of the piece to be mounted on your wall, and used when explaining the work. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog! • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Praxis - Animal Adoption- Miniature Giraffe, A real, non-visible animal, that you are adopting to enjoy its company and playful nature. About 14 inches high, looks exactly like a real giraffe, only it is friendly and loves to sit in your lap and go everywhere with you. It comes with a non-visible toy it will love to play with as well as an endless supply of food and treats. Guaranteed to be friendly and disease-free with all its shots and it lives forever. You can name it yourself, though it will come with a unique name, and we will give you registration papers to make it official, and it will be recorded in our adoption center. • Important! You are buying the description and registration papers for the imagined artwork, which is an animal in this case. You will also be listed in the PDF catalog with your pet, which you will receive a copy of.
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By Praxis - Animal Adoption - Miniature Zebra, A real, non-visible animal, that you are adopting to enjoy its company and playful nature. About 10 inches high, looks exactly like a real zebra, only it is friendly and loves to sit in your lap. It comes with a non-visible toy it will love to play with as well as an endless supply of food and treats. Guaranteed to be friendly and disease-free with all its shots and it lives forever. You can name it yourself, though it will come with a unique name, and we will give you registration papers to make it official, and it will be recorded in our adoption center. • Important! You are buying the description and registration papers for the imagined artwork, which is an animal in this case. You will also be listed in the PDF catalog with your pet, which you will receive a copy of.
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By James Franco - Film -Red Leaves - His imagined short film based on William Faulkner's short story "Red Leaves." It relates a story of the EARLY inhabitants of Faulkner's fictional Yoknapawtapha County. A stunning and beautifully conceived work of art. It is a portrait of a culture on the brink of destruction. The owner of this artwork will receive a title card with a description of the piece to be mounted on your wall, and used when explaining the work. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog! • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Praxis - Drawing - Dust Map - A drawing that is forty by forty meters square on white paper, hung on the ceiling. The drawing was made over the course of two years. The entire drawing is made with the tip of a pin. There is no ink or pencil, it is just tiny dents everywhere, made from a pin. If you could look closer (but you can't) you will see words written with the pin head with the aid of a magnifying glass, so the letters are barely visible. Written in over two hundred thousand words, is the first part of websters dictionary, edition 2010, letters A through F. The owner of this artwork will receive a title card with a description of the piece to be mounted on your wall, and used when explaining the work. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog! • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Praxis - Conceptual - Perfect Peace - This is a visualization of perfect peace. Since it is not visible, it is truly perfect. It is for you, and can be used anywhere, and at any time, by closing your eyes and focusing on the text which you can memorize. It is like having a portal always at your disposal to take you to another land that is entirely fantasy. The owner of this artwork will receive a title card and a description of the piece to be used whenever they wish to remember it, or explain to friends. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog.
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By Elena Bajo, "Universal Flag" 2011, Performative Sculpture, it is a rectangular piece of reflective silver mylar attached to a flagpole, it is installed on a wall, in a location where the wind blows, (a flag doesn't blow without wind,) and make sure there is a source of light also, a surface doesn't reflect without light. Be the wind and the light of that moment. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Praxis - Human Adoption - A Personal Friend, A person that you adopt which you can customize after you receive him or her. Pick their name, sex, and even their personality, and you get registration papers from us, which we also have a record of and will update with your new name and details. With this category, you will get invited to future non-visible adoptive family events! You are joining a community of non-visible adopters.• Important! You are buying the description and registration papers for the imagined artwork, which is an animal in this case. You will also be listed in the PDF catalog with your pet, which you will receive a copy of.
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By Praxis - Human Adoption - An Enemy, (Keep this one close to you) A non-visible person that you adopt which you can customize after you receive him or her. Pick their name, sex, and even their personality, and you get registration papers from us, which we also have a record of and will update with your new name and details. With this category, you will get invited to future non-visible adoptive family picnic events! • Important! You are buying the description and registration papers for the imagined artwork, which is an animal in this case. You will also be listed in the PDF catalog with your pet, which you will receive a copy of.
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By Douglas Anthony Cooper – Installation – “A Moment’s Awareness.” The owner of this piece will have a brief experience of the real. At this moment, everything extraneous to the now will be banished from the mind, and the owner will have an unmediated encounter with his or her world, in real time. This artwork is site-specific: it is here. Both hereness and nowness will be contingent upon the viewer’s precise location, spatially and temporally, but they will nevertheless be objective: this is a sensual experience of the actual world (which can be considered an installation). As the owner of this artwork, youwill receive a title card with a description of the piece, to be mounted on your wall and used when explaining the work. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog. •Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card of the imagined artwork.
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By Jen Silver – Photograph - True Love – This is a life-sized photograph of your true love. If you’ve yet to find your true love, he or she will be revealed to you when you look into this work of art. If you’ve already found your true love, then this photo captures them at their most attractive and endearing moment. Every time you look at this piece you remember instantly what drew you together and fall in love with them all over again. •Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Sidewalk Dave - Unrecorded Song - First Swim "You’re seated in scuba gear above a gigantic pool when you hear a woman’s voice say 'Don’t be scared'. Suddenly, you’re dropped into a low frequency sound scape of wet chaos. The drums are frantically rolling, guitars slippery, harps sparkling, and an angelic chorus is humming in a frenzied murmur. But like a storm passing, the turmoil drifts away. In the distance you hear the woman bubbling out lyrics of nurturing reassurance before you reemerge to a big towel that reads: 'I’m proud of you.'" As the owner of this artwork, you will receive a title card with a description of the piece, to be mounted on your wall and used when explaining the work. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog. •Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card of the imagined artwork.
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By Jon Haas - Conceptual - Moment - This is two identical snowflakes wafting down in a sort of dance with one another; catching the amber brilliance of the rising sun and shedding swirling shadows on the blank walls around them. For what seems an eternity, they come to gently rest upon the flapping wings of a butterfly in mid- stroke. This instant becomes locked; the glistening flakes, the shadows etched on the walls, the butterfly’s brilliant wings still and cradling. •Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Monica Jacobs – Sculpture – Tree of Life – This tree is large enough to reach into space, but small enough to fit in your hand. The tips of each branch end in a point of light that are stars in the night sky. The roots connect to every place on Earth. The bark grows the names of everyone who has ever lived or will ever live. As the owner of this artwork, you will receive a title card with a description of the piece, to be mounted on your wall and used when explaining the work. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog. •Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card of the imagined artwork.
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By James Jacobs – Sculpture – Mirror, Mirror – This is an ornate full body mirror modeled off the mirror used by the wicked stepmother in Snow White. Instead of using it for nefarious purposes, it is powered by the love of your soul mate. When you look into it, you do not see yourself as you are. Instead, what you see is how your soul mate sees you as you are engulfed in a moment of perfect love. •Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Stephen Dest - Perfection - a Film - This film has not only the greatest opening in film history but also the best characters, locations and without question the most perfect ending a film has ever had! • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Rita J. King - Fireflies- Sculpture - A tiny jar full of luminescent green spheres the size of poppy seeds. When the jar’s cork is removed, the seeds drift into the air, no matter the season or climate, turn into fireflies and begin to spread out at a radius determined by your current desire. If you whisper “near” they will stay close. When you say “far” they will incrementally fly further away, at your pleasure. They always return to the jar. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Krysten Davis – Wire and Mixed Media Sculpture – “Mariposas Verdes”: A sculpture made by wiring the wings of 10,000 luna moths together, resembling a very fragile blanket or cape. The wings display the species's characteristic mint-green color, with large dark circles that resemble eyes on each wing. A traditional art form in villages of northern Mexico, said to induce sweet dreams, repel demons, and awaken minor psychic powers in the possessor, such as the ability to smell ghosts. • Please take note (this is important): you are not buying a visible piece of art. You are buying the title and a description of the invisible artwork. Of course, none of this has any bearing on the question of ownership. It is entirely yours.
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By Davenport - Installation - “Sunshine, 1/1/2003, 6:45am” - This perfectly preserved ray of sunshine from New Year's Day '03 was captured in the wild before it could be contaminated. The plexiglass container is 6'x6'x6', 3" thick, and comes mounted on a motorized turntable so you can view your ray of light from any perspective. This sunshine will not escape until you release it. When you do, enjoy a single moment of pure potential. May contain fuzzy thinking, outdated notions. Not for internal use. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Steven Sampaio – Film Installation – “Transitions” - Four films, looping infinitely: one depicting an acne-scarred teenager with braces setting off fireworks; one a bald man wearing a bow tie clipping his nails; one a 65-year-old woman wearing a poodle skirt having her dog jump through hoops; and one showing two men wearing Oxford-cloth button-up shirts and plaid shorts, giving each other high fives. All filmed separately and projected at a public theater. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Wispin Larkspur - Installation – "Tearamid" - Every one of the 12,321 used eyepatches in this pile belonged to a different Arabian pirate who died of heartache. Bitter and lonely lives of oceanic pillage have soaked these patches with the brine of their eyes. After this exhibit tours the world, the Tearamid will be loaded onto a clipper ship, then cast into the brine of the Indian Ocean. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Elizabeth Blakley-If you find yourself being sucked into a black hole I will give you a code on a piece of paper for you to type into your cell phone as you think of neo.g transported through your personal vortex into another dimension, such as, the garden of eden. You will bathe in a turquoise pool with diamond dew droplets falling from emerald leaves. You won't have lost any time and and will have completely avoided the black hole. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Aimee Davison – Conceptual - Vial of "Fresh Air" The vial of air you are purchasing is a shot of pure inspiration. If you are creatively blocked, breathing a Vial of Fresh Air will open your spiritual pathways to creativity. Hand bottled by Aimee Davison, the Vial of Fresh Air will transport you to a place of universal creation and cosmic fertility; the pristine oxygen within is prime fuel for your art and soul. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Paul McCormick, Sculpture, Impossible Diamond: This diamond-shaped sculpture comprising entirely of 20,000 ethically sourced, 20-carat black diamonds is suspended from an invisible thread at a height just out of reach. It rotates exceedingly slowly and whenever you look on it you will be so mesmerized by its beauty that you will try to re-create its luminosity throughout the day. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Praxis - Painting - Red Square - a painting of a small red square. It is about 5 by 5 inches. It is one color but has several shades of red and is so glossy that it looks wet. It is made by using drops of the artists' blood mixed with paint. It can look like zombie dining evidence, when the medium and its history is described, but it also looks like a gazing mirror because it is so shiny and reflective. The owner of this artwork will receive a title card with a description of the piece to be mounted on your wall, and used when explaining the work. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog! • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By James Franco - Costume - Early 19th-century garment from the set of this imagined film, called "Red Leaves." A native costume of a slave. The lavish costume was made with synthetic materials to reproduce clothing that looks as though it were made with gold leaf and animal skins. The owner of this artwork will receive a title card with a description of the piece to be mounted on your wall, and used when explaining the work. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog! • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Praxis - Sculpture - 1000 Suns. On a giant wall, the length of the biblical Ark (about 30 meters), is a light sculpture. From a distance it looks like ten giant braids coming off of the back of someone's head. It is actually 900 thousand LED lights in bunches of about 100,000 lights each. When it is turned on, the light is so bright it will hurt your eyes if you don't put on special eyewear. With an imaginary set of glasses on, you can flip the switch and turn on the wall and feel the near-blinding light of the sculpture. The owner of this artwork will receive a title card with a description of the piece to be mounted on your wall, and used when explaining the work. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog! For this category, you will also get invited to the after-party if you are in New York City in November of 2011. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By James Franco - Sculpture- Boat of Captain -- A full-scale steamboat that the Chief lived in, on the river, for the James Franco movie, "Red Leaves." The steamboat was meant to live on and this replica full scale model actually floats, though there is no engine. The owner of this artwork will receive a title card with a description of the piece to be mounted on your wall, and used when explaining the work. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog! For this category, you will also get invited to the after-party if you are in New York City in November of 2011. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork. For this category, you will also get invited to the after-party if you are in New York City in November of 2011.
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By Praxis - Sculpture- The Race -- Running between three rooms, and traveling over six thousand square feet of space, are clear tubes for hamsters to run through. Every fifty feet or so, there is an elaborate, 200 square foot doll house that they can enter, filled with toys and food. There is also excercise wheels and little cups and plates to drink out of, little newspapers, with tiny articles printed on it about hamsters and how they live. It is a giant home for hamsters that is linked to several doll house mansions, custom built for their amusement and health. The owner of this artwork will receive a title card with a description of the piece to be mounted on your wall, and used when explaining the work. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog! • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork. For this category, you will also get invited to the after-party if you are in New York City in November of 2011.
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By Praxis - Installation - A permanent five hundred square meter room filled with red jello made primarily of water, organic red food color, vegan gelatin and organic sugar. You are required to disrobe and then enter this room naked and squeeze between giant blocks of jello, explore the room and take bites. The owner of this artwork will receive a title card with a description of the piece to be mounted on your wall, and used when explaining the work. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog! For this category, you will also get invited to the after-party if you are in New York City in November of 2011. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Douglas Anthony Cooper. Earthwork. An Improbable Memory. The owner of this piece will remember with full clarity an event that has never occurred. Perhaps this is a memory shared silently by the entire species. A memory that comes to individual consciousness at a moment of crisis or necessity. Perhaps you have stolen a memory from the person sitting next to you. A memory so profound and real to them that it cannot be contained within the prison of a single mind and must pierce actuality like a shard of history. The subject of this memory is a person unlike anyone you have ever encountered or will encounter again. You will long for them and mourn their absence and be forever changed by the improbable memory of their passage through your life. As the owner of this artwork you will receive a title card with a description of the piece. You may mount this on your wall. It will prove useful when explaining the work. You will also receive a letter of authentication and a pdf copy of the catalog. Please take note. This is important. You are not buying a visible piece of art. You are buying the title and a description of the invisible artwork. This has no bearing on the question of ownership of course. It is entirely yours.
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Commission a work by Praxis. We will surprise you with a work designed especially for you in an edition of one.
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Institutional Package- Get a whole show. A good deal for a museum or curator or collector who wants one big package. You will get one original commission just for you, from Praxis, and five other major works that are from editions of available work. You will also get a pdf catalog and a printed catalog when this show ends. You will get all the printed materials you need to mount a show and work with Praxis.
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By Elena Bajo, "To the North, The Crystal of Non- Knowledge, a Landscape to be invented" 2011, Sculpture, it is an old iron staircase made of refurbished fragments found in a wasteland in Demmark, It measures 4.5 m high and 4 m base. On the top of the staircase there is a platform with an old stained glass window and a wooden frame, with lots of colors glass. You can place the piece in your garden, you can go upstairs and look at the world through a different color glass everyday. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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By Praxis - Sculpture - Golden Stone - A very special sculpture that is made in an edition of three. It is a ten foot tall, foil covered easter egg. The ones that have the thin chocolate inside that could easily break. But this one—the golden stone, we call it—is much more than a cheery looking egg; it is the stone of immortality, the stone of youth, the stone of endless wealth. The owner of this artwork will receive a title card with a description of the piece to be mounted on your wall, and used when explaining the work. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog! For this category, you will also get invited to the after-party if you are in New York City in November of 2011. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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Praxis, Sculpture, Beat box To be installed on a north facing wall. Two very small oil on board paintings of red hearts. Not the shape of a heart, but images of two actual human hearts that have been removed from their bodies. Each painting is half the size of an actual heart. The wall they are hanging on is nine hundred feet long, and it is painted bright white and there is nothing else on it. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork, which in this case, is two paintings.
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By Douglas Anthony Cooper – Earth Work – “Newton’s Ghost.” Only one of these invisible works exists: you are purchasing a unique piece. “Newton’s Ghost” is a vast hollow sphere of glass, rising like a bubble through the surface of the earth. It is 150 meters in diameter (almost a tenth of a mile) – the approximate dimensions of Étienne-Louis Boullée’s unbuilt “Cenotaph for Newton.” Only the very top has emerged and is visible: this is a circle of glass, one meter in diameter. Because the visible section represents only a fraction of the sphere’s surface, it appears flat, but it is in fact subtly curved, like the horizon. As the owner of this artwork, you will receive a title card with a description of the piece. You may mount this on your wall; it will prove useful when explaining the work. You will also receive a letter of authentication and a pdf copy of the catalog. Please take note (this is important): you are not buying a visible piece of art. You are buying the title and a description of the invisible artwork. Of course, none of this has any bearing on the question of ownership. It is entirely yours.
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By Praxis - Conceptual - Fresh Air -This is a unique piece, only this one is for sale. The air you are purchasing is like buying an endless tank of oxygen. No matter where you are, you always have the ability to take a breath of the most delicious, clean-smelling air that the earth can produce. Every breath you take gives you endless peace and health. This artwork is something to carry with you if you own it. Because wherever you are, you can imagine yourself getting the most beautiful taste of air that is from the mountain tops or fields or from the ocean side; it is an endless supply. Naming Rights- You get an entire wing of the museum named in your honor for this purchase. The owner of this artwork will receive a title card with a description of the piece to be mounted on your wall, and used when explaining the work. You will also get a letter of authentication, and a pdf copy of the catalog! For this category, you will also get invited to the after-party if you are in New York City in November of 2011. • Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
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We started giving out hugs and washing feet in the East Village of Manhattan on 10th Street, and then in an exhibition at the Whitney Museum biennial in New York, and since then we work together on creative and conceptual projects that are usually interactive in some intimate way. We call ourselves Praxis, an art collaborative.