"Your personal goddess”, 2021
Global free digital VR NFT sculpture
Here in the garden you can find the VR QR code in marble. Scan the augmented reality code for free with your own camera phone.
Digital asset:The digital sculpture is free for all, but the digital sculpture certificate is for sale, minted as an NFT (on MISA/Johann König, Berlin) in an edition of 5 - (8 000 EUR each): Purchase link: https://misa.art/collections/ditte-ejlerskov/products/dej_nft_1_01
The Wrestlers is a virtual reality NFT sculpture developed in collaboration with Museet for Samtidskunst / the Museum of Contemporary Art, DK. On the marketplace MISA/Johann König the sculpture is represented as a GIF. Follow this link to try the browser version of the 3D sculpture or get the augmented reality code for your own phone camera or download the 3D print files for your computer: https://virtuelleskulpturer.samtidskunst.dk/en/. Concretely the sculpture reimagines the Uffizi Wrestlers, a marble sculpture of two men wrestling from the first century AD that epitomizes the idealized male body in antiquity. The NFT is thus part of a millennia-long Eurocentric tradition of copying, and sometimes slightly modifying, this sculptural representation of the two struggling bodies. The Ufizzi Wrestlers is itself a marble copy of the now-lost Greek original in bronze. Other replicas in bronze and plaster exist in numerous copies across the globe.Despite being one of Western art history’s most well-known works, its origin and the original artist remain unknown. Through the Creative Commons license, Ejlerskov seek to further layer the history of copying and reinterpreting the classical sculpture. A collector of this NFT acquires the blockchain certificate ownership, but at the same time the artist waived her artistic copyright to the Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC 4.0). “I wish to test if it is possible to reshape Western cultural history without entering discussions on the norm body or objectification of women. To me, the wrestlers are avatars without sex appeal. The project is of course shaped by my personal cultural viewpoint, and thus by definition it is Eurocentric. My focus is open-source sharing and feminist discourse set in motion through the act of making. And my motivation is deeply personal. Additionally, to me this NFT entails a new way of thinking about ownership. While the NFT exists as an edition of five, the virtual sculpture is licensed to the public domain, enabling wide access to the source files. The NFT will never change, but the virtual sculpture will gain a life of its own in our shared digital public space. People from all over the world sent me photos of their usage of the now global public sculpture.”
