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no museum is an experimental platform dedicated to new ways of thinking, presenting and viewing art.

no museum is a group of people who are interested in sharing moments of experiencing art in unexpected locations.

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Each exhibition is announced via e-mail. Each e-mail 'alert' includes pertinent information for viewing each exhibition.

An ongoing archive of exhibitions are presented on our website, along with various publications and events, we hope to invite a sense of surprise and further inspiration. Where is your no museum? What is a museum?

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no.   phase name   location e-alert entry date  
14   23 Apr, mailed space for exhibition no. 14 sent to this is your journal   PO Box 1125
NY, NY 10159-1125
n/a 22 Apr 2008
 
 
 
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13   18-19 Apr a spec of space with re-collection   Union docs
322 Union Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211
e 17 Apr 2008  
10   26 Mar - 20 Apr inviting 24" x 36" poster submissions for
no museum (first phase)
  contact us x 19 Mar 2008  
11-1   online re-installation of "if a tree falls in the forest ..."   here e 12 Apr 2008  
12   09 Apr
6PM-8PM
sponsor for rEject Show   Art Director's Club,
104 W 29th St, New York, NY
e 08 Apr 2008  
11   06 Apr
11am - 3pm
"If a tree falls in the forest and no one is
there to hear it, does it make a sound?"
  Chelsea 21st St. 10th Ave. New York 10011
(the street corner right near Printed Matter)
e 01 Apr 2008  
07-1   21-25 Mar SID?   Office of Paul Sahre (O.O.P.S.) e 24 Mar 2008  
09   2 copies available first project exhibition catalogue,
blue and white available
  contact us publication 20 Mar 2008  
08   16-17 Mar wear a blue for this modern weekend   The Museum of Modern Art,
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019
e 14 Mar 2008  
07   24 hour, 19-20 Mar signage installation   Office of Paul Sahre (O.O.P.S.)
536 6th Avenue 3rd Fl. New York, NY 10011
e 17 Mar 2008  
06   ongoing no museum guest book   guest booooook e 08 Mar 2008  
04   11 minute banner accidental waterfall opening event   209 east 23rd st. ny 10010 opening event 22 Feb 2008
05   expanding google no museum map!   no museum google map x 21 Feb 2008  
04   22 Feb - 20 Mar accidental waterfall   shared student server e 21 Feb 2008
03   public collection tree 1   us, new york city e 06 Feb 2008
02   ongoing 4 series of 0.125 inch printed dots   us e 28 Jan 2008  
01   - no-museum.com launched online!   no-museum.com x 24 Jan 2008  
00   unknown 3 gummie bears tanning   us, new york city e 15 Dec 2007  
- 1   2 remaining unknown portraits   us, new york city e 22 Oct 2007  
                 
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    < a spec of space with re-collection     e    
   

exhibition date / 18-19 Apr 2008
Re-collection was a project that started from December 2007 till April 2008. There were a series of flyers that were posted in New York City and San Francisco, Bay Area, to create an anonymous dialogue between the flyer and the pedestrian, the maker and the spectator, the private and the public. The flyers, contained nondescript statements derived from personal thoughts (for example, one set read,“I remember every word you said to me. 646-607-5550”) Recieved voicemails were edited and reassembled into a new whole, creating a sonic patchwork of public response and a constructed dialogue between the participants. By revisiting and recycling, the messages take on new meaning: they are no longer individualized reactions; they are redefined as parts of a whole. Each caller becomes a recontextualized fragment of a broader realm, extensions of personal thoughts in a universal forum.

Sharing a spec of space with re-collection's exhibition I have nothing and everything to say to you, no museum presented 5 I have nothing and everything to say to you gummi bears as an installation to celebrate the success of re-collection's anonymous dialogue. Outside the re-collection exhibition space 5 gummie bears were placed along with a recording piece of re-collection. The gummie bears attracted the attention of the viewers to a small(hidden) tape recorder. The sound that was played were the questions from the flyers that re-collection had posted.


Close view

       
                 
                 
    < sponser for rEject show     e    
   

exhibition date / 09 Apr 2008
no museum sponsored the third rEject Show that was having two parts to the show, the first part that was announced and performed at 09 April Wednesday night's reception of Art Director's Club, School of Visual Arts Advertising and Graphic Design Portfolio Exhibition. rEject Show, originally started from having a show with rejected student work from the chair of School of Visual Arts to be in the annual Art Director's Club exhibition, was finally back for the third time, still plans to get together, have pun, and expire each other before being ejected by the school(graduation) the coming May. Not sponsored by the Art Director's Club(ADC), American Institute of Graphic Arts(AIGA) nor Adobe Systems but no museum by designing name tags and printed hand outs.

As part of the spirit of rEject show, no museum showcased no museum name cards that was not selected to be part of the ADC Exhibition.

       
                 
                 
  < If a tree falls in the forest and no one is
there to hear it, does it make a sound?
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    exhibition date / 06 Apr 2008
re-installation: online from 12 Apr 2008
The project started from questioning sound and the location of the listener.

Does sound exist if no one is there to hear it?

Does art exist if no one is there to see it?

In collaboration with Echo Universe, a designer and artist that uses environmental sound as a premise to his work, no museum built an exhibition in the middle of Chelsea on 06 April, Sunday from 11AM-3PM. As a collaborator and affiliating artist of no museum, Echo Universe installed a participatory installation to be included on his upcoming ambient music cd "Song from Urban Environments".

The exhibition took on two parts in the end. The first part: sound installation in chelsea with brocures and museum labels, the second part: re-installation of the first part. The sound including the ambience and people's reaction was recorded and was reproduced through Echo Universe' mandalas as a "re-installation". To view the second part, please visit here.


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Image of the exhibition space, Chelsea

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First part, sound installation box and label
       
   


Screenshot of part two: re-installation

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  < wear a blue for this modern weekend     e    
   

exhibition date / 16-17 Mar 2008
"no museum" planned a lively, moving exhibition during the weekend March 16-17, inside a physical museum, the Museum of Modern Art.

This was an unofficial proposal of the current exhibition that was held in Moma the "Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today". Maybe under a similar approach with Daniel Buren's striped vest pieces, our goal was to explore ways of viewing thousands of different "no museum blues" by the interaction of light, shadow and movement inside a specific location with the interface--blue clothing, blue shoes, blue accessories from visitors of all over the world. "no museum" was thrilled to share the marvelous location with Museum of Modern Art. We were also excited to give out an experience that shifts the focal point back and forth from art to the viewer. By wearing any shade of blue to the Museum of Modern Art on the weekend of 16-17 Mar, participants became an art piece while viewing art.


One of no museum participants

       
                 
                 
  < signage installation, SID     e    
   

exhibition date / 19-20, 21-25 Mar 2008
In memory of Sid... a small electronic signage installation was created for no museum by Paul Sahre. It was up for approximately 4 days from 6 PM, March 21-25 2008. Installed in the window of the Office of Paul Sahre (O.O.P.S.), 536 6th Avenue 3rd Fl. New York, NY 10011, far left 3rd floor window.



Close up of how the LED signage works


SID?

       
                 
                 
  < no museum guest book     e    
 

exhibition date / ongoing
"Where does no museum exist?"

Instead of answering the question, no museum presented an online platform asking "where is your no museum?" Many no museum members presented their answers and it also became a fun guest book filled with word games on digital space.

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4 May 08, 17:35
B): hi unnie
1 May 08, 09:29
dud: :P 와~
1 May 08, 09:26
dud: 우와...컬러가 랜덤으로 바껴..훌륭해.
27 Apr 08, 04:09
dud: ekap.
22 Apr 08, 23:56
B): i know how to spell caffeine now
17 Apr 08, 02:09
5: flyer
13 Apr 08, 10:51
lu: 2
12 Apr 08, 21:48
영점: 점점 갖춰져가는데?
5 Apr 08, 02:33
7: 8
1 Apr 08, 16:12
tree falls: then someone will be there
25 Mar 08, 23:31
\: /
25 Mar 08, 01:12
dot: 엇? 배경 또 바꼈네
24 Mar 08, 23:27
dot: background good
22 Mar 08, 09:29
dot: him nae yo friend.
21 Mar 08, 19:44
museum: on/
20 Mar 08, 22:28
muesum: on\
20 Mar 08, 13:30
sid: ?
18 Mar 08, 00:09
blue: modern
14 Mar 08, 10:29
Jinah: you should put your web link on email blast, or its just me couldnt find it
14 Mar 08, 10:29
Jinah: lol loving wat u doing here
14 Mar 08, 07:43
saturday: moma around 11
13 Mar 08, 23:20
young: nice!
13 Mar 08, 17:30
here: there
13 Mar 08, 16:52
:P:
13 Mar 08, 13:30
ddong: kko
13 Mar 08, 10:31
oo: 8
12 Mar 08, 03:04
mool: kya kya kya
12 Mar 08, 03:04
mool: it's funny!
12 Mar 08, 03:04
mool: woowang good
11 Mar 08, 00:04
JOo: mean it
11 Mar 08, 00:04
JOo: love u
9 Mar 08, 01:18
gummie: nations
8 Mar 08, 21:19
mina: it's a good!
8 Mar 08, 19:33
matel: behind my desk, in the corner of the room, where i have never been able to clean.
8 Mar 08, 19:05
bangladesh:: just chillen
8 Mar 08, 16:29
me: you
8 Mar 08, 15:24
suckzoo: life is beautiful
8 Mar 08, 15:17
seatrickster: oh yeah!
7 Mar 08, 12:20
na seung: wow
4 Mar 08, 21:09
known: unportraits
2 Mar 08, 13:10
water-dental: acci-fall?
28 Feb 08, 15:42
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Finally, as an answer to the question, no museum would say that we exist in the moment when the viewer interacts with our collection.

       
               
                 
  < accidental waterfall     e    
   

exhibition date / 01 Feb 2008
Inside School of Visual Arts, 209 East 23rd Street NY, NY 10010
5th Floor Digital Imaging Center Room 506, 507, 508, 510 there is a temporary student temp server where students save their file while they work at the computer lab. Files that are ready to be thrown away everyweek reborns as a collection of the exhibition "accidentall waterfall" by relocating the files into a specific folder called no museum. The collection of files were randomly chosen by the "no museum" curator group. There was an opening event on February 22nd, 3pm in front of the main building of School of Visual arts.

The title came from the moment of accidentally discovering inspiration by shifting through unknown chunck of files created by anonymous students. The temporary files which were pieces of process, research, sketches becomes to hold a different role as one of a collection of art, when it gets copied to no museum folder. The exhibition was held from February 22 to March 20. The collection itself was very flexible and temporary. The files were moved around, edited and added by various student participants and no museum curator group. There was a tutorial movie showing an example of one student viewing the exhibition.

For the opening event the idea behind the exhibition was expressed as an abstract form and was performed on February 22, 3PM for 11 minutes.




Video of 11 minute banner celebrating the exhibition "accidental waterfall" that was held on the window of the computer lab.





Tutorial video created showing an example of viewing the exhibition.




Printed catalog created for the exhibition

       
                 
                 
  < tree 1          
   

exhibition date / 06 Feb 2008
Somewhere near Lafayette and Canal Street, no museum collected trees for our public collection that exists in the urban environment.
organinc no museum stickers were produced and placed near the tree as a label of the piece.


tree 1


sticker label of no museum

       
                 
                 
  < 4 series of 0.125 inch printed dots          
   

exhibition date / 28 Jan 2008
This series of art was discovered by no museum inside the Visual Arts Library 380 Second Avenue at 22nd Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10010-3994. After a research of 5 copies of this book, no museum found out every book of Paul Auster's "City of Glass" with the same ISBN / cover design seem to have a wonderful printing mistake, 4 series of dots in 4 particular pages indicated as below. And finally became a collection of no museum.

Page 16, 22, 123, 134 of book City of Glass, Volume one of the New York Triology by Paul Auster, A Penguin Book, ISBN 0-14-009731-7, the book nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, "City of Glass" inaugurates an intriguing "New York Trilogy" of novels that "The Washington Post Book World" has classified as "post-existentialist private eye... "



Example image of the exhibition

       
                 
                 
  < 3 gummie bears tanning          
   

exhibition date / 15 Dec 2007
This exhibition was held at, the Tishman Auditorium Area, Parsons The New School for Design, 66 West 12th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenue, during a lecture CAUSE/EFFECT, DESIGN AS CHANGE AGENT. Presented by the New York Chapter of AIGA/The Professional Association for Design, no museum presented 3 gummie bears tanning in the hall way where snacks were served.



       
                 
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