Curatorial
Practice
May 2021 / On-going
Pak, The Fungible Collection, part of the burn.art ecosystem in collaboration with the sotheby’s.
︎ Community Value Exchange System
︎ Social Experiment
︎ Digital Ecosystem
[burn.art] introduces an exclusive “burn” mechanism using Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) to establish a new value system for digital art. NFTs represent unique digital assets linked to real-world objects, securely stored on the blockchain as part of the internet’s value layer.
Within this system, collectors of Pak’s NFTs, including The Fungible Collection launched by Sotheby’s, may choose to permanently remove their works from circulation. In return, they receive “Ash,” a social currency created by the artist. This process transforms the artwork into a new form of value, raising the question: What holds greater worth—art or money?
Once generated, Ash functions as a legitimate digital currency, incentivizing knowledge exchange and fostering cross-sector collaboration. This experimental ecosystem demonstrates how destruction can become creation, and how value can be redefined through participation and community.
The curatorial frame turns destructive action into regenerative practice, healing the anxieties of a purely capital-driven art world by reimagining exchange as creative, communal, and interdependent.
︎ Social Experiment
︎ Digital Ecosystem
[burn.art] introduces an exclusive “burn” mechanism using Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) to establish a new value system for digital art. NFTs represent unique digital assets linked to real-world objects, securely stored on the blockchain as part of the internet’s value layer.
Within this system, collectors of Pak’s NFTs, including The Fungible Collection launched by Sotheby’s, may choose to permanently remove their works from circulation. In return, they receive “Ash,” a social currency created by the artist. This process transforms the artwork into a new form of value, raising the question: What holds greater worth—art or money?
Once generated, Ash functions as a legitimate digital currency, incentivizing knowledge exchange and fostering cross-sector collaboration. This experimental ecosystem demonstrates how destruction can become creation, and how value can be redefined through participation and community.
The curatorial frame turns destructive action into regenerative practice, healing the anxieties of a purely capital-driven art world by reimagining exchange as creative, communal, and interdependent.