描述
Every day of July, 2021, Cassils “ate” the diets of top grossing white male artists producing 33 unique cans. Cassils “consumed” these white male artists’ food, “shat” into a can and sold it as an NFT. Cassils's cans are inspired by a famous work of art by Piero Manzoni (1961). Initially the project was announced under the nom de plume “White Male Artist”. This fits into a long history of artists employing pseudonyms to critique a centuries old, outdated art market in which value is determined by the identity of the creator rather than the merit of the work. $HT Coin is released into a market in which only 2% of the top grossing contemporary artists are not cisgender men. At this moment when museums are interrogating the contents of their collections. with respect to race, gender and sexuality, $HT Coin demands that institutions and collectors put their money where their mouth is. $HT Coin brings gender and racial inequality into focus within the greater arts and crypto community. 10% of sales goes towards an LGBT+ Trans/ Non-Binary BIPOC Artist Fund run by For Freedoms. Carbon offset supports Solitary Gardens.
Medium: Tin can, printed paper and excrement (prosciutto, roasted grapes, goat-cheese toast, arugula, saba, fruit, water, hot dogs, ground meat, ketchup, chocolate syrup, margarine, mustard, mayonnaise, raw steak, yellow cake, chocolate frosting, multi-colored sprinkles, cold cream, tuna fish, butter, coq au vin with potato puree, chanterelles, and pearl onions, red-wine-poached pear, pain de genes, mascarpone)
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