V1S10N_001 Ver Clausi

The Argentine artist Ver Clausi is the first recipient of Tara Digital Collective’s V1S10N Grant.

V1S10N is a new grant program run by Tara Digital Collective. Recipients of the grant receive a stipend to fund the creation of a new series of work to be featured in a future exhibition with TDC Gallery In addition, the artist receives TDC governance tokens, marking their entry into the collective. Collectors interested in funding the exhibition through direct artist support are given the opportunity collect WIP NFTs, representing the artist’s initial inspiration for the forthcoming exhibition, in addition to TDC governance tokens. TDC artists and token holders will vote on future grant recipients based on a shortlist of artists nominated by the collective.

V1S10N_001 Editions

Declaración Artística // Artist Statement

Tatuaje

El tatuaje es una práctica artística-social que surgió hace miles de años, con diversos usos tales como comprometer a un individuo de manera permanente con una comunidad específica (transformación colectiva), marcar la transición de la infancia a la adultez (de joven a guerrero, de aprendiz a chamán, etcétera), o bien como símbolo de madurez luego de una transformación individual. Actualmente es símbolo de potestad del propio cuerpo.

El cuerpo humano, como soporte orgánico sujeto a las modificaciones del tiempo y del espacio, en constante transformación y movimiento, ha sido intervenido a lo largo de la historia de múltiples formas. Sin embargo, el hecho de marcarlo de manera permanente con un tatuaje es el procedimiento que ha permanecido con mayor aceptación en diferentes culturas, épocas y regiones.

Como si el cuerpo fuera realmente un lienzo tridimensional, las intervenciones sobre él son prueba del deseo de transgredir la uniformidad anatómica. Funcionan como una vía para revelar la singularidad de cada ser y, a la vez, como una prueba de pertenencia simbólica a una tendencia cultural determinada. ¿Es, acaso, la finalidad del tatuaje redirigir la individuación al contexto histórico-social?

Handpoke, obrar sobre la sociedad

Hoy en día, junto con los movimientos que reivindican lo artesanal y lo analógico, reaparece el handpoke, como una vuelta a las antiguas formas de marcar el cuerpo. En esta técnica se mezclan conceptos que configuran nuevas formas del tatuaje: la idea de scratch o estilo «tumbero» —realizado en cárceles, asociado al mundo criminal y al DIY (do it yourself, expresión inglesa que significa hágalo usted mismo)- así como el indie,1corrientes que se oponen a los parámetros impuestos por la cultura hegemónica a través de los medios masivos de producción y de consumo.

SKIN CATALOG

El proyecto de catálogo de piel, que consiste en diferentes experiencias dentro del marco de tatuaje y exploración corporal, me ha conducido a la experimentación digital como forma de registro y manipulación de cuerpos y superficies tatuadas.Actualmente trabajo con fotogrametria como herramienta para capturar las superficies trabajadas previamente con la técnica de tatuaje Handpoke. Este nuevo medio de registro me invita a desarrollar toda una serie de exploraciones sobre los diferentes resultados que generan las imágenes capturadas digitalmente, como las texturas, los volúmenes, la yuxtaposición de imagen o el lenguaje simbólico que representa todo lo anterior. Este vasto universo puede ser descrito como una forma de tatuaje expandido, es decir , los límites de lo que consideramos como técnica de grabado de tatuaje se expanden a los nuevos medios que aporta riqueza la tecnología digital. Pero la realidad es que la proyección de sentido a través de estas nuevas capas de registro abre miles de nuevas posibilidades y caminos a tomar para poder ser explorados de manera eficiente. Estos cuerpos , pieles y tatuajes son reales para el espectador, pero no están instanciados físicamente en nuestro propio mundo, por lo que la naturaleza no fungible de la ficha se presta al estado ontológico del medio. Aquí es donde entra el beneficio de las plataformas de crowfunding de proyectos artísticos.

Tattoo

Tattooing is an artistic-social practice that emerged thousands of years ago, with various uses such as permanently committing an individual to a specific community (collective transformation), marking the transition from childhood to adulthood (from young to warrior , from apprentice to shaman, etc.), or as a symbol of maturity after an individual transformation. Currently it is a symbol of the power of the body itself.

The human body, as an organic support subject to changes in time and space, in constant transformation and movement, has been intervened throughout history in multiple ways. However, the fact of permanently marking it with a tattoo is the procedure that has remained with greater acceptance in different cultures, times and regions.

As if the body were really a three-dimensional canvas, the interventions on it are proof of the desire to transgress anatomical uniformity. They function as a way to reveal the uniqueness of each being and, at the same time, as a proof of symbolic belonging to a determined cultural tendency. Is it, perhaps, the purpose of the tattoo to redirect individuation to the historical-social context?

Handpoke, act on society

Nowadays, along with the movements that claim the artisanal and the analogical, the handpoke reappears, as a return to the old ways of marking the body. In this technique, concepts are mixed that configure new forms of tattooing: the idea of ​​scratch or «tumbero» style - performed in prisons, associated with the criminal world and DIY (do it yourself, English expression that means do it yourself) - as well as the indie, 1currents that oppose the parameters imposed by the hegemonic culture through the massive means of production and consumption.

SKIN CATALOG

The skin catalogue project, which consists in different experiences within the tattoo and body exploration framework, has driven me to use digital experimentation as a form of registration and manipulation of bodies and tattooed surfaces. Currently I work with photogrammetry as a tool to capture the previously tattooed surfaces with handpoke technique. This new way of register invites me to develop a series of explorations like image juxtaposition or the symbolic language that it all represents. This vast universe can be described as a form of "expanded tattoo", meaning that the limits of what we consider as an engraving tattoo technique, expands to the rich new ways that digital technology brings The meaning projection through these new layers of register opens thousands of new possibilities and roads to take. Here is where the crowdfunding platforms existence benefits the art projects and the artists.

There is an archaic idea in the art of marking our skin with a tattoo, that has also had an exponential growth with the capitalist individualism and the drive of each person altogether the tattoo is for each person, yes, but it also makes this tattooed person part of a community that accepts itself as it is and virtually creates a real cultural network.

My idea of Expanded Tattoo seeks to make this network visible, with the purpose of showing this connection that exists between human beings.

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