Project Title:
Dichotomies and rupture: dystopian responses
Project members:
Rita Isaac - isaacr.near
Maria Ferreira - neebythesea.near
Funding period:
November 2021 (depending on monthly budget deadlines)
Intro:
Hello, my name is Maria (aka neebythesea) and I was recently introduced to the world NEAR through muti collective. I´m very excited to learn more about this community and meet some of the creatives here. This is my first proposal with long term friend and artistic collaborator, Rita (aka Isaac R), who has also recently been introduced to the NEAR community.
Description:
Dichotomies and rupture: dystopian responses
Having known each other and worked together in the past, our artistic practices have shared themes and visual elements, generating dialogues almost out of sheer existence in close proximity. Drawn to the possibilities of exploring dissonant combinations of image and sound, we are proposing to create a rupture in the dialogue between our work and break the subconscient contamination cycles by using a mutual interest to challenge each other in this collaboration, without discussing the work in progress. To achieve this, we´re proposing to send each other a visual or audio prompt, to which the receptor must create or capture a complementary sound or image. We won’t discuss the prompts received nor ask for further details, only react and respond, creating a visual or audio match to what was received. Therefore, the aim is to create audiovisual pieces together but autonomously, and as a result of a response instead of an agreement or discussion.
We will send each other one prompt per week, over a period of 5 weeks (for the duration of November). Each artist will work on this project a minimum of three hours per week, distributed across capture of video or sound, editing and creating through other mediums - painting or drawing. Throughout this project we´ll have ten constructed dichotomies that, due to the audiovisual nature of the work, will also have a strong digital component. At the end of the five weeks we´ll regroup and discuss which two final works will be minted into nft´s.
This project, experimental at its core, is in itself a work in progress and we aim to use its yields to ultimately create our own gallery / shop with all the resulting NFT´s.
What we are requesting from the DAO is a stipend of $200 to be split between the artists towards the editing time and any material costs along the way for the initiation of this project.
Requested Funding
$200
$100 per artist
More info about Maria Ferreira:
website: https://mariamferreira.com/
More info about Rita Isaac:
website: https://www.ritaisaac.com/
If you need any other info, please feel free to ask!
Thank you,
Maria & Rita.
