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Our third article on Damien Hirst’s ongoing NFT project The Currency<\/em> (co-authored with David Hawkes) is out in Whitehot Magazine<\/em> one year after it published ‘The Currency’ referendum <\/a><\/em>in November 2021, and four months following the second article that addressed the aftermath of July vote that pitted physical artworks against their digital avatars. Part three focuses on the role of the community, and the shift away from the outmoded omnipotent artist paradigm. We argue that The Currency <\/em>turns the consumers of the artwork into full-fledged participants of the project, breaking down the wall between the creator and their audience. On the face of it, The Currency<\/em> fits the definition of “community art.” It also fits the paradigm of what anthropologist David Graeber called \u201chuman economies,\u201d which operate through collective social practices, rather than through the mind of an individual genius.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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