HOW ARE WE | Emily Mast and Yehuda Duenyas

It is an artifact that at once captures a specific moment in time and engages with a wider set of questions cracked open by our current conditions. The final work will be uploaded onto the blockchain as an immutable digital “object” that can be bought, sold or traded. Artists, writers, programmers and a lawyer co-own the work through a “smart contract” ensuring transparent and equal distribution of wealth, thus upending traditional notions of the art market and exchange. HOW ARE WE asks how artistic imagination can come together with technological innovation to reimagine our world, specifically the role of “value” at this vulnerable moment in history.

Title of Work: HOW ARE WE

A project by: Emily Mast and Yehuda Duenyas

Featuring works by: Barnett Cohen, Constance Hockaday & Faye Driscoll, Darrian O’Reilly, David Adrian Freeland Jr., Dorothy Dubrule, Emily Mast & Yehuda Duenyas, Hana van der Kolk, Heyward BraceyJay Carlon, Jessica Emmanuel, Jennie MaryTai Liu, Mireya Lucio, Shannon Hafez, Stacy Dawson Stearns, Terrence Luke Johnson

Year: 2020

Medium/Format: 25 minute .mov video stamped onto the blockchain

© 2020 How Are We

Music: “Theme From ‘A Summer Place’” by Percy Faith and His Orchestra

Duration of the work: Approx 25 minutes

Language: English

People appearing: Comma, Constance Hockaday, Darrian O’Reilly, David Adrian Freeland Jr., Dorothy Dubrule, Elisabeth Carpenter , Em, Faye Driscoll, Galen Swords, Heyward Bracy, Jay Carlon, Jessica Emmanuel, Mireya Lucio, Shannon Hafez, Stacy Dawson Stearns, Terrence Luke Johnson

This artwork was created in the context of ENTER project, an initiative of Onassis Foundation. Onassis Stegi and Onassis USA give artists from all around the world 120 hours to create from home a series of new original commissions; sharing their new reality. Let’s ENTER.