Judy and Nadya invite you to join this participatory artwork,
support gender equality and create change.
What If Women Ruled the World?
Please select one or more questions below and submit your answers to participate.
Click on banners above to answer & participate with Judy & Nadya in this collaborative project.
A participatory, blockchain enabled, art project by feminist icons Judy Chicago and Nadya Tolokonnikova.
Judy Chicago and Nadya Tolokonnikova now call on you to respond. All who share feminist values are invited to come together and make their voices heard at this urgent time for women’s right.
Choose a single question or respond to as many questions as you want. Written messages and visual images submitted here will be reviewed and selected contributions will be shaped by the artists into a new collaborative project, with the mission of creating a foundation for the largest gender rights community in Web3.
This project took Chicago’s inspiring banners ‘What If Women Ruled the World’, which were created in collaboration with Maria Grazia Chiuri for the Dior Spring Summer 2020 Haute Couture show, as its source for a new revolutionary blockchain enabled call-and-response.
Judy Chicago, 2021
Photo © Donald Woodman/Artists Rights Society, New York
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen, 1939, Chicago, Il) is one of the most influential artists of our century, an author, feminist, educator and intellectual, and a 2022 inductee into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Over the course of her six-decade career, social and environmental justice have been the driving force behind some of her most important projects as she continues to fight for equality in the art world for women and other marginalized artists and the protection of all living creatures.
Over the years, male curators, and critics, who favored artwork created in the vein of the male-centered art historical canon, often overlooked her work. Rather than backing down, Chicago took on the challenge of changing these attitudes in the art world through the founding of the first Feminist Art Program at Fresno State, CA; the creation of her epic work, The Dinner Party, which sought to counter the erasure of women’s history; and the development of a K-12 “Dinner Party” curriculum. In subsequent projects and bodies of work, she has addressed the prescient issues of birth and creation in the Birth Project, the construct of masculinity in PowerPlay, the horrors of genocide in the Holocaust Project, and most recently, the subject of mortality and its relation to the destruction of our planet in The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction.
Chicago took the fashion world by storm with her collaboration with Dior and its creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri for the Spring 2020 haute couture show in Paris. Chicago’s career retrospective opened to rave reviews in August 2021 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. In celebration of her retrospective, Chicago unveiled her largest Smoke Sculpture to date, Forever de Young, seen by more than 35,000 people worldwide.
The author of fifteen books, Chicago wrote her definitive memoir, The Flowering, published in July 2021 by Thames & Hudson and cited as one of the best books of the year. The award-winning newsmagazine show CBS Sunday Morning recently profiled Chicago.
Nadya Tolokonnikova
Nadya Tolokonnikova
Nadya Tolokonnikova (born November 7, 1989, Norilsk, Siberia, Russia) is a conceptual artist, musician, author, activist and the founding member of Pussy Riot, a global feminist protest art movement. Today, hundreds of people identify as a part of the Pussy Riot community. Pussy Riot joined the NFT community in early 2021, co-founder of UnicornDAO, instrumental in raising over $7m with UkraineDAO, a PleasrDAO member, and a supporter of a stronger female representation in the NFT space.
Tolokonnikova attended Moscow University and received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Rhode Island School of Design, 2019. She has had numerous museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide, including: “Empowerment”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, 2022-2023; “Inside Pussy Riot”, Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K, 2017; “Zero Tolerance,” MoMA, New York, 2014; “Take Liberty”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway, 2014; and collaborations and public projects including a performance for Banksy’s “Dismaland” exhibition, 2015; “Speech Itself – Pen America” with Jenny Holzer, Rockefeller Center, NY, 2022.
Nadya Tolokonnikova has an extensive and ongoing history of political activism, for which she was sentenced in 2012 to 2 years’ imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance. After activating a hunger strike protesting savage prison conditions, she was sent to a Siberian penal colony, where she maintained her artistic activity and toured the Siberian labor camps with her prison punk band. In 2018, she published the book “Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism.” Co-founder of independent news service and media outlet, Mediazona, she has spoken before the US Congress, British Parliament, European Parliament, and appeared as herself on season 3 of the television show House of Cards. Awards include Time magazine, Women of the Year, 2012; LennonOno Grant for Peace, 2012; The Guardian, Best Art of the 21st Century, for 2012 The Punk Prayer political art piece, in 2019; OutRight Action International Outstanding Award for her effort raising $7M in donation for Ukraine with the NFT Project Ukraine DAO, 2022.
Pussy Riot stands for gender fluidity, inclusivity, matriarchy, love, laughter, decentralization, anarchy, and anti-authoritarianism.
FAQ
What is the project?
Judy Chicago and Nadya Tolokonnikova now call on you to respond. All who share feminist values are invited to come together and make their voices heard at this urgent time for gender rights.
This project took Chicago’s inspiring banners ‘What If Women Ruled the World’, which were created in collaboration with Maria Grazia Chiuri for the Dior Spring Summer 2020 Haute Couture show, as its source for a new revolutionary blockchain enabled call-and-response.
Judy Chicago invites you to respond to one or more of her 11 questions posed on her banners. Written messages and visual images submitted here will be reviewed and selected contributions will be shaped by the artists into a new collaborative project, forming the foundation for the largest gender rights community in Web3.
What happens with the selected responses?
Selected responses will have the opportunity to be part of the creation of an NFT artwork.
Do I need a crypto wallet or address to participate?
You do not need a crypto wallet to submit a response. However, if your response does get selected to become part of the creation of an NFT artwork you will need a crypto wallet. DMINTI will contact participants whose responses have been selected for further details.
What is DMINTI?
DMINTI supports artists and cultural luminaries best express their vision through the most advanced digital technology and Web3 resources. In DMINTI’s metaverse, innovative programs such as Metaverse Mondays connect artists and cultural institutions to global and multi-generational audiences. DMINTI is dedicated to strong educational initiatives and offers cultural, highly curated experiences in the metaverse.
What is the Unicorn DAO?
The Unicorn DAO is a collector’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) dedicated to collecting and incubating non-fungible tokens created by female, non-binary, and LGBTQ+ artists in Web3.
ABOUT DMINTI
DMINTI partners with leading artists and cultural luminaries to best express their vision through the most advanced digital technology and Web3 resources. In DMINTI’s metaverse, innovative programs such as Metaverse Mondays connect artists and cultural institutions to global and multi-generational audiences. DMINTI is dedicated to strong educational initiatives and has become a leader offering live cultural, highly curated experiences in the metaverse.
DMINTI has produced projects with artists: Ricci Albenda, Sarah Meyohas, Brendan Murphy, and David Salle; new projects for fall 2022 with Josephine Meckseper and a collaboration by Judy Chicago and Nadya Tolokonnikova.
DMINTI Founders: Shalom Meckenzie, Jennifer Stockman, Dominique Lévy, Christopher Jones, Carola Jain. Advisors & Partners: Hani Rashid, Mark Lemley, Franklin Leonard, Ran Neuner.
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