{"id":22,"date":"2013-07-19T06:22:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T06:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/praxis?page_id=22"},"modified":"2021-05-31T16:51:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T20:51:33","slug":"history-revised-and-rewritten-with-facts-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/","title":{"rendered":"History &#038; Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px||false|false&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Raleway|300|||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;1.4em&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; text_line_height=&#8221;1.4em&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]Praxis is a two person collaborative that was formed in 2000 and was first featured in 2001 in PS1\/MOMA&#8217;s Greater New York show, and in 2002 they were in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Whitney_Biennial_artists#2002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whitney Biennial<\/a> for their visual art and a series of performative actions. They are a husband and wife team &#8211; Brainard and Delia Carey.<\/p>\n<p>After numerous other shows, Reina Sofia, MOMA, Whitney solo show in 2007, they began a new artist project &#8211; building an institution, <a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/\">MONA, <strong>(The Museum of Non-Visible Art)<\/strong><\/a>. MONA is currently interviewing artists, curators, and writers from all over the world, as part of an artist-built institution and a social practice. Over 600 interviews have been conducted so far &#8211; The <a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/\">Archive of interviews is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Brief History of Praxis.<\/p>\n<p>Praxis launched a \u00a0Kickstarter project for the Museum of Non-Visible Art \u00a0in 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/praxis\/museum-of-non-visible-art-praxis-and-james-franco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to see what that was all about.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Praxis was included in the biennial in <a href=\"http:\/\/29gbljubljana.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/24\/performing-miracles-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slovenia<\/a> where \u00a0non-visible workshops were created.\u00a0A news clip from Slovenia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s1qM-G4IJik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sculpture Center featured\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sculpture-center.tumblr.com\/tagged\/Praxis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MONA on their blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you simply want a pdf resume of Praxis, <a href=\"http:\/\/twobodies.com\/praxis_cv_resume.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a>, or for the wiki short form description, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Praxis_(Delia_Bajo_and_Brainard_Carey)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to see all the books these two busy artists are writing, go on over to the their author website &#8211; yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/artofhugging.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But maybe you want to see Praxis at the Whitney Biennial in their classic performance of washing feet and giving out hugs? If so, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IeUMVL0qIDM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here will transport you <\/a>there via a news clip from CBS television.<\/p>\n<p>Or if you you want to read the <a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/testone\/fairytale\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fairytale about it all, this will take you there.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the whole archive, see the original site and start digging by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twobodies.com\/indexclassic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here.<\/a>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px||false|false&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Raleway|300|||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;1.4em&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; text_line_height=&#8221;1.4em&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]Praxis is a two person collaborative that was formed in 2000 and was first featured in 2001 in PS1\/MOMA&#8217;s Greater New York show, and in 2002 they were in the Whitney Biennial for their visual art and a series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}