OONA: Staging Art on the Blockchain

Collectors Call

OONA is a conceptual and performance artist who challenges our perceptions of sexuality, identity, technology and finance. A critic of the toxic masculinity that is commonplace in crypto culture, OONA uses her art to help us imagine a future that is accepting and supportive of diversity in all its forms.

Recorded on March 8, 2024 as a Space on X.

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:28) The Creation of OONA
(03:34) Privacy and Anonymity
(06:15) Audience Participation in Performance Art
(10:02) Performance of Milking the Artist
(18:33) Innovating on the Margins of Cryptoart
(22:45) Artists as the Original Influencers
(25:08) Failsafe: a Commentary on the Crypto Community
(29:43) Responses to Performance of Look Touch Own
(34:22) Co-creating art with Audience
(37:45) Curation of AND Exhibition with Museum of Crypto Art
(41:42) Making of BASIC INSTINCTS: THE HORSE
(48:55) Unanswered Questions: the Value of Artwork made by Women
(36:40) OONA asks Scooter about his Experience of Look Touch Own
(54:30) Final Thoughts from OONA
(55:50) Outro