The Unforgotten DAO - An introduction
Council -
@khos - Cinematographer and Writer
@shreya - A fat kid at heart. Photographer and director
@cryptonaut - Assisting the creatives with the blockchain and metaverse stuff.
What is this DAO trying to do -
We’re trying to bring to light the
- ancestral and traditional arts & crafts by creating contemporary mixed media art pieces in India.
- To invite the NEAR community from all around the world to share smaller cultural rituals & expressions of their country/tribe/faith for the world to see how they live, express and celebrate.
Ancestral and traditional arts & crafts - Mixing new age movment art like contact Improvisation, Butoh, contemporary dance, with old traditional arts and crafts like the way a small community of weavers in Gujarat, Patola weavers, weave their clothes, a tribe in Nagaland creates bamboo work, traditional Mask-making Mukkha Bhoana in Assam which have been around for over 700 years.
Smaller cultural rituals or expressions - Describing your community or festive ritual and how it came to be (maybe sharing some videos you took), a lullaby sang in your home, or even just a recipe passed down by your grandmother.
Why - A lot of places around the world have strong cultural roots and traditional expressions of how people live their life. Over time, due to digitalisation and modernisation, these cultural expressions and the importance of this ancestral wisdom has changed, gotten lost or even forgotten.
The intention behind creating this DAO is to showcase and learn about these art forms and traditional rituals by creating stories around them and immortalising it via NFTs. So artisans and creators can share a part of their cultural existence and generate income for their creation.
How
- For Ancestral and traditional arts & crafts*
Every month showcasing 1 artists via
- Multimedia video created with a movement artist or artist of any other form in collaboration with the main artists’ work.
- Video interview with the artist talking about their journey, what keeps them going and how they manage their life.
Sustainability
- Multimedia videos will be created as NFTs which when bought will generate revenue for traditional artists.
- NFTs for products will be created at a higher cost. The buyers buying these product nfts will get the real artwork shipped to their address.
For smaller cultural rituals or expressions
A theme will be shared every month
- A song which is famous in their culture
- A traditional dance
- A lullaby
Open bounties for existing NEAR community and regional DAOs for their members to share videos of them performing.
These cultural rituals will be showcased in the metaverse where all the community members will come and decide their favourite performances who will be given bounties.
We will mint these cultural expressions as NFTs and any revenue generated will be directed to the DAO of the member, so the community can always keep receiving and the creator will get the bounties.
Please share your feeedback and viewpoint