Minting yourself!Xsenofemme (NL), Nika de La Loncha (DE/NL)

Workshop time and place:

Wednesday, 25.10.2023., 14:00 – 19:00 h, Museum of Contemporary Art (Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Zagreb)

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.

Xsenofemme (NL)

Xsenofemme is an artist-design duo formed by interdisciplinary artists and social designers Ines Borovac (HR) and Ginevra Petrozzi (IT). XF was born to investigate technological systems of control and their distribution of power on global bodies. Through interactive and explicit performances, they wish to embody the contradictions of being women, artists and navigating a digitally focused reality. They both graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven, and have showcased their work during Ars Electronica (2022), Dutch Design Week (2022), and Milano Design Week (2023).

Nika de La Loncha (DE/NL)

A visual, performance, and social designer, whose work focuses on legibility and visibility of digital and physical bodies from a feminist perspective. Her work mostly consists of embodied and immersive formats, including combinations of dance, performance, video and sound. Her current performative research project Eroliteracy with which she graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven has been shown at De Singel|International Arts Centre (2021), Dutch Design Week (2022), CTM Festival (2023), and MU Hybrid Arthouse (2023).