MoRE

MoRE is a digital archive and museum dedicated to unrealized art projects from the 20th and 21st centuries. Accessible online at moremuseum.org, it collects and exhibits works that were never completed due to technical, logistical, ideological, economic, moral, or ethical reasons, or simply because they were utopian or impossible to execute. MoRE mission is to preserve and highlight these unrealized works through the collection of documents, materials, and curator-written records.

The website is built using Omeka, a free and open-source platform for digital collections and online exhibitions. The museum consists of a fully digital archive of materials and projects, searchable by artist, project title, geographical location where the work was intended to be realized, and through tags that describe the various reasons why the project was not carried out. In addition to this core activity, MoRE organizes and participates in seminars, meetings, and exhibitions, such as this one.

MoRE @ Ditch Projects – Presented by CFAR
For this exhibition, the installation is designed to emphasize the hidden and latent nature of the unrealized projects stored in MoRE’s archive: nine “talking captions” are scattered throughout the exhibition space, sometimes placed in secondary or peripheral locations.

These captions do not correspond to actual artworks or physical materials in the exhibition space; their placement reflects the often marginal and forgotten fate of many unrealized projects. Visitors are invited to find them independently and listen to the artists’ stories from their own voices. Each caption is accompanied by a QR code that, through your device, will give you access to an audio file in which the artist briefly narrates his unrealized project. The “talking captions” aim to tell the story of these projects through the only way they can still be expressed: the archive and the living voice of their creators.

A tablet is also available in the exhibition, connected to www.moremuseum.org, allowing visitors to explore the museum and archive online. Thus, the stories preserved in MoRE’s digital archive take shape within the show, giving voice to unrealized projects and transforming their material absence into a living, accessible narrative presence.