Every year the Burning Man festival attracts more than 70,000 people to the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. But like many events scheduled this year, the event programmed for August 30 – September 7, 2020 has just being cancelled in favour of a virtual fest, as the United States is currently the country most affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Museum of No Spectators, which was to be one of the projects for this year’s edition, didn’t rethink participation in the days of social distancing but, on the contrary, represents the bottom-up approach of Burning Man, its history and its ten core principles: radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation, and immediacy.

San Francisco-based architect John Marx together with artist Absinthia Vermut described the museum as “appearing part machine, part creature, part abstract and surrealistic form, it may present as a blank slate, with an expansive exterior. Its dynamic shapes emerge as otherworldly yet grounded.”

On the website www.themuseumofnospectators.com it is still possible to “participate” to the construction of the museum, but we still don’t know how the project will evolve now that Burning Man is phisically cancelled.