Non-Fungible Castle 2022 explores how blockchain technology can be used to rediscover, share, and preserve our cultural identities. The exhibition created and exhibited NFTs to represent different artistic forms of expression, serving as a permanent cultural record and fostered a platform to discuss how the art world can use blockchain technology to celebrate our heritage, build a community of cultural stewards, and encourage storytelling to reconnect with our cultural roots.
PART ONE of Mieke Marple’s film “Cold and silent, like a heart” Visual effects and art direction by Francisco García Nava Cold and silentlike a heart" is a feminist reinterpretation of Antonín Dvořák's symphonic poem: "The Water Goblin" (1896)based on a poem of the same name by Czech folklorist Karel Jaromír Erben from 1853. The poem is about a goblin who abducts a young maiden and forces her to bare his child. It ends with the girl reconnecting with her mother and refusing to return to her unhappy life with the goblinwhich the goblin then punishes by murdering their child. In Marple's reimaginingtold through animated images and select stanzas from Erben's poem (below)the goblin is removed from the narrative. The focus becomes the girl's mental state and what now reads as her decision to end the life of her own child—a la a kind of abortion. The story is still a heavy onebut it at least depicts the young girl with her unwanted pregnancy as a person of agency rather than an agent-less victim. Gloomy are those watery realms desolate they are Cold and silentlike a heart hopeless with despair Rockabyemy little son born to one unwilling Do not blame a faded rose crushed and withered here In their bloodtwo objects lying Baby's head - without a body: Tiny body - with no head MP4 | 1080x1080 | 0:14