while the feminist gains of the past 50 years are fading away, most notably with abolition Roe v. WadeFeminist artist Judy Chicago has teamed up with Nadia Tolkonnikova, of the Pussy Riot collective, to transform her film What If Women Ruled the World? Series in a participatory art project. This new version is enabled by the blockchain in hopes of creating a Web3 community dedicated to gender rights.
The question of the series was at the center of a series of works that Judy Chicago presented in 2020 for the Dior catwalk. The streamers, large tapestries of gold, purple, and green fabrics, each represent a response to it. “Will there be equal paternity?” one banner asked. Another posed the query: “Will there be private property?”
Related articles
Now, anyone with an internet connection can respond to these queries.
On the Web3 DMINTI platform, and on a related websiteChicago Banners series, each with its own question, is clickable. A form follows where the viewer can respond to the prompt in 150 characters, or with an image. Selected responses will be collected and converted to NFT.
Tolokonnikova is well connected to the NFT community, and earlier this year she helped found and run the Ukraine DAO, which has raised $7 million to help Ukrainians. She and Chicago announced this new artwork at ICA Miami on Thursday.
“We want men and women around the world to think about how we can take back our humanity, take back how we talk to each other, and most importantly, take back the planet,” Chicagoan told the late-night session.
Naturally, the first person to give his answer to Chicago’s “what if women ruled the world” questions was Tolkonnikova.
The two met to record Tolkonnikova’s responses at Chicago’s home in New Mexico. Chicago recalled feeling incredibly emotional as she worked with Tolkonnikova through the questions. However, she notes that Tolkonnikova is not entirely impressed, and Chicago asks her why.
“I can’t stop thinking about her response,” Chicago said. “You told me that during her trial— over Russia’s “riots” in 2012 — “she taught herself how to control her emotions, because “I didn’t want to be the little girl Putin made to cry.”
That trial was intended to put the Pussy Riot members in jail for staging a protest show in a church that led to Tolkonnikova’s imprisonment and her time in a labor camp.
With this new work, Chicago and Tolokonnikova hope to speak back to the autocrats who have tried to eradicate gender equality, and encourage people around the world to consider a more positive future in the process.
[ad_2]
