Museum of Non-visible Art

Become a Member of the Museum of Non-Visible Art

brainard — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:48:36 +0000

“Membership” as they say, “has its —— .” That’s how we feel about your membership here.

Includes perks and discounts as well as private party invitations. Also a beautiful member card with varnish on it and hand-drawn elements. Learn more by just clicking right here on these words.

Press Clippings for MONA

brainard — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:17:24 +0000

The kickstarter project was a huge hit and it generated significant buzz that continues to grow. From around the globe, news outlets to blogs have asked the question – what is non-visible art? They have answered it in thoughtful ways to cheeky comments, and almost every journalist has made a non-visible work of their own by the time the article was done!

Call to Architects – $10,000 Prize

brainard — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:15:54 +0000

This is a call to architects to design the next Museum of Non-Visible Art. It is open to anyone in any field. You can be a poet, an artist, a writer, a mechanic, a bus driver, designer, or any type of visionary who could use the prize money and a chance to think way, way outside the box.

To learn more, stay updated by joining the mailing list above, and you will be the first to know when the call is released!

MONA Manifesto

brainard — Sat, 11 May 2013 21:46:36 +0000

A MANIFESTO: TO CLARIFY THE NON-VISIBLE

Art itself is nothing.

All that matters is what is left.

The afterglow.

The ambition is to produce this.

We strive for an afterglow with no thing preceding.

A glow.

Phosphenes.

The only surface worth painting is the mind of the viewer.

The viewing of art should not require eyes.

Art should be entoptic.

We strive to force meditation.

The prisoner’s cinema.

Phosphenes.

Art is without value until it faces the market.

The market purveys value.

Money is banal until it has been spent.

Money spent on art is money transformed.

Money spent is mourned.

This mourning is eased by art.

We strive to enhance mourning.

Mourning is a response to what is not there.

An afterglow.

What you see does not matter.

What you have seen is everything.

All you truly buy is the afterglow.

It has value.

You must pay more for the glow that has no thing.

Nothing before.

Pure after.

Phosphenes.

RULES FOR THE CREATION OF THE NON-VISIBLE

You shall not add to the banal. (You shall not build.)

You shall not litter the world with art. (You shall not make.)

What you have not made must be beautiful.

What you have not made must have value.

You must bring what you have not made to market.

(The market will give it value.)

You must give to the market absence.

(Money is banal until spent.)

You must offer the market anguish.

(What is spent is painful.)

You must make the market beautiful.

(Nothing beautiful without pain.)

You must increase the world behind the eyes.

The wreck of the Medusa.

It left us with phosphenes.

You must conjure them and sell them.

Only when you have done this are you one of us.

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By Douglas Anthony Cooper
In accordance with Praxis
(Brainard and Delia Carey)

James Franco defends Non-Visible Art on Jimmy Kimmel

brainard — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:14:51 +0000

A great moment in television – when the hotest actor of the year uses the history of conceptual art and his knowledge of the Museum of Non-Visible Art to defend and explain what MONA is.

Click here to watch the original video.

4-15-13

brainard — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:57:44 +0000

With your 3-D glasses on, these words explode forward, shattering your screen and it looks as though a hand is reaching out to grab you and pull you in, but it is an illusion. It is non-visible like the art in this museum and it is part of the invisible world we all know so well – our thoughts. We are Metaphysicians and Artists and invite you to learn more about the non-visible world – explore, contribute, work with us.