WHERE
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Invisible Museum of Gravity in Lincoln Park
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Invisible Museum of Sound Waves in Winnemac Park
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Invisible Museum of Air in Washington Park
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Invisible Museum of Reflections in Douglass Park
CHICAGO
Individuals can experience the piece at the time and designated site(s) of their choosing.
WHEN
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This artwork is part of The Long Dream exhibition and is available November 7, 2020 through January 21, 2021.
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Your park trip will take approximately 30-60 minutes, depending on your unique choices.
Whenever you want.
November 7 - January 21.
HOW
- Download the Gesso app
(link at top of page).
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Open the app and click "always enable location." You will be prompted to set up an account.
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The app will automatically open to Chicago if you are around the city and will show the Invisible Museum closest to your location.
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Charge your phone and bring a pair of headphones with you to the park you choose.
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Once you physically arrive at the park, the app will instruct you on how to begin your experience.
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Download, arrive, experience. Learn how:
Events & nEWS
Invisible Museums of the Unseen: The Book @ Printed Matter
BRING A CUSTOM MAGIC PERFORMANCE TO YOUR OUTDOOR EVENT
The Experience
Looking for a unique way to celebrate a recent graduation, wedding, anniversary, birthday, or just celebrating summer and the outdoors?
Interactive. Fun.
100% Contact-Free & Physically Distant
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Gather loved ones together under the sun or stars to celebrate the wonder around us, and each other. ​Each attendee is given a beautiful wax sealed envelope, instructed to keep it closed until the experience begins...
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Attendees receive beautifully designed kits that allow them to interact with the performance and each other in a truly innovative and safe way.
In a series of guided interactions, attendees perform magic illusions in their own hands and minds without knowing how they accomplish these impossible feats.
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The entire audience can participate in Andrews' sensory anomalies and illusions to bridge everyday life to a special, heightened world by collaborating to create the performance, including making crucial decisions and possessing seemingly impossible knowledge.
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Shattering the mold of the traditional magic performance, this one-of-a-kind performance features elegant magic handpicked from Jeanette’s repertoire specially to fit your event.
celebrate
guide
collaborate
amaze
But the goal is the same: to gather loved ones together under the sun to
celebrate the wonders around us and each other.
The Story
July 1996
One of my first entrepreneurial endeavors was hosting a performance for friends and neighbors in my family's backyard.
July 2020
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24 years and over 1,000 shows later with magic as my sole, lifelong profession, I am offering backyard / outdoor performances again!
The look, content and guidelines are different, but the goal is the same: to gather loved ones together under the sun or stars to celebrate the wonder around us, and each other. ​
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About Jeanette
Jeanette Andrews is hailed as one of the most innovative illusionists in the world today and she has presented commissioned and site-specific work for The Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt, the International Museum of Surgical Science, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Andrews has staged hundreds of sold-out and standing-room-only performances for Fortune 500 companies, theaters and universities across the United States, including Infiniti, Kraft, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Lyric Opera and Chicago Ideas Week. Her work explores how illusions construct reality and highlights astonishing aspects of everyday life via moments of the seemingly impossible. She is a prior artist in residence for High Concept Labs and The Institute for Art and Olfaction. Illusion is Ms. Andrews’ life’s work and her performances have been praised by the Chicago Tribune, PBS and the New York Times.
Safety Guidelines
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Jeanette has been continually monitoring the guidelines on events from the CDC, WHO, IDPH (IL Department of Health) and MPI (Meeting Planners International), and will be implementing the following:
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• Jeanette will be in ongoing dialogue with event host to promote the safety of all and meet the needs and goals of the event
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• Event hosts will receive a detailed guidebook on event set-up tips upon booking
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• The performance is 100% contact-free
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• Performance will occur utilizing physical distancing. Audience attendees will be spaced appropriately and Jeanette will be at least 6 feet away from attendees
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• For interactive components, attendees will be given high quality, single-use materials (that can be retained as keepsakes)
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• Wear PPE at the event
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• Will not arrive having had any COVID-19 symptoms
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• Will sanitize hands throughout the event
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• Jeanette will be accessible every step of the way to answer questions
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