MAIL NOTHING TO THE TATE MODERN

Project with Rhizome at the Tate Modern, London during No Soul For Sale.

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An open call to submit nothing for exhibition at the Tate Modern!

Anyone can send in nothing to this exhibition. All you have to do is send an empty package or envelope to the Tate Modern in London. All received mailings will be exhibited unopened May 14-16 in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern.

Send your mailing with tracking and your name and tracking number will be listed on this site so that your package can be followed while it is in transit to London. All mailings sent from the USA using the United States Postal Service will have their delivery status updated live through a program we have written.

By locating these packages (all with various points of departure and the same location of arrival) at various moments in their transit, one can grasp a mental picture of the vast global infrastructure of shipping - a breathing system of objects in continuous movement. The packages being sent to the Tate Modern, declared to contain "nothing" on their customs-forms as they cross international borders, generate the data of travel with tracking technologies. This data becomes a trace - a trace of nothing (or, of something empty). Mail carriers claim these tracking numbers (and the data) as their legal property, which we are appropriating and exhibiting in this project.