The artist duo Xsenofemme and Nika de la Loncha calls for artists who would like to speculate and experiment around the themes of artist emancipation and commodification of bodies in performance and contemporary art. Drawing inspiration from Piero Manzoni’s Artist's Shit, the participants create an artwork to be sold as an NFT, sourcing raw material directly from their bodies.
Expanding on the themes of the exhibited project Mint me! I’m an artist, the participants experiment with photogrammetry methods, as the ones used in the project, to scan their bodies. The workshop provides techniques to scan, import and isolate the scanned objects in a digital environment. The scans resulting from the workshop are uploaded on the OpenSea account that the artists have set up for the exhibition. Then the participants have a platform where they can “sell their bodies” as artworks, and receive a royalty in case they get purchased as NFTs on OpenSea. The workshop also includes the redaction of a short contract between Xsenofemme, Nika de la Loncha and every participant, to give back agency to the artists selling their body parts, and to start a conversation about remuneration as performers in the art market.