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Descentralized art project
The project involves creating graffiti artworks featuring the Kusama logo in various cities, commencing with Barcelona. The process encompasses designing a template, and paint it with black spray in urban locations. Each graffiti piece will then be photographed and transformed into a non-fungible token (NFT), minted on the Kusama blockchain.
In the future, we anticipate individuals utilizing our template to make their own graffiti in different cities, financed by the treasury and upload it to the blockchain. Each graffiti point needs to be geolocated, enabling visits to these locations as if they were sanctuaries during travels. A symbolic gesture of reverence—bending the knee in front of the Kusama logo—is encouraged. Cities must have a population exceeding 2,000,000, and once a city is adorned, it cannot be repeated.
Inspired by Foucault's analysis of panopticism as a power mechanism, we propose subverting this paradigm. Placing the Kusama logo strategically in urban settings transforms it into a symbol of rebellion—an inversion of the panoptic gaze. Each graffiti piece disrupts passive surveillance, converting public spaces into active sites of resistance. Drawing further inspiration from Paul B. Preciado, our graffiti project becomes a performative act challenging conventional discourse surrounding public space.
To sum up: A swift template of the KSM logo, creating graffiti, capturing it in a photo, uploading the NFT on StateMine, and geolocating it for others to visit and bend the knee.
Allocation:
· Idea: 69 KSM
Risk+Expenses: 42 KSM (spray, template, time etc..)
We propose these rules for participants in this Project for the first 10 cities:
· 42 KSM (max allocation)
· City must be >2,000,000 population or the most populated city in the country. (for example: Vatican City)
· Can’t repeat cities
· Photo of the NFT. Upload it and geolocate it.
Comments (2)
Requested
Proposal Passed
Dear proposer,
Fun project indeed!
Would you consider expanding your rules of participation to include maybe:
We are voting Aye in trust that this project will be executed using the best intentions and common sense.
Good luck!!
Milos
@GATOTECH
Absolutely! Your ideas are fabulous. It's crucial for everyone involved in the project to adhere to these principles, ensuring that this initiative not only achieves its goals but does so with utmost responsibility and respect. It's also interesting to follow these rules to protect the work itself. Thank you!
The main idea of the project is to make a move from the digital world to the real world. Blockchain is a technology (nearly a cult) where narratives are created exclusively within a digital space. We are moving this cult from the digital world to the real one, creating these sanctuaries. Also the impermanence of the physical asset, represented by the graffiti, compared to the permanence of the NFT creates an interesting dynamic.
Regarding Gatotech's comment about respecting laws, in Barcelona and many other cities, there are "open walls" provided by the city council where street artists can create their graffiti. So we got that covered.