We are proud to present [a series of 5 videos](/brody-condon) by artist [Brody Condon](/brody-condon), recorded in 2014. 

The Berlin based artist (b. Mexico 1974) often facilitates and documents game-like group encounters that experientially probe dissociative phenomena. His work is best known for its early influence on re-purposing computer games and LARP techniques ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brody_Condon)).

Condon's work has been widely exhibited internationally, and been acquired by public collections such as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Albright-Knox Gallery, and the Kadist Foundation.

The 5 video works are each available in an edition of [3 non-fungible Ethereum tokens](https://left.gallery/work/evp-amie). These tokens are progressively priced: respectively 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 ether, and sold on a [first-come, first-served basis](https://left.gallery/work/possession-janet) (no auction).

We like to thank our friends at [Folia](https://www.folia.app/) and Alberto Granzotto for their support.

Possessed High-Poly NFTs

Read our co-founder Harm van den Dorpel's text [Tokenizing Sustainability](https://harm.work/news/tokenizing-sustainability) about his position on NFTs and the direction left gallery is taking.

Harm van den Dorpel on NFTs

Rick Silva

Medium: Single-Channel Born-Digital Video with Audio Dimensions: 2160 x 2160 px -----------About 'Geomancer 4' (2021): Geomancy (Greek: γεωμαντεία, "earth divination") is a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand. -----------About The Artist: Rick Silva was born in Brazil and lives in Eugene, Oregon where he is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Oregon. He has exhibited his work in over 20 solo and two-person exhibitions and over 100 group exhibitions, including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and The Centre Pompidou.-----------About The Purchase:The Token ID points to a display copy of the artwork. The full collector package, is exclusively available through a private link that can only be transferred via the previous collector, TRANSFER, or left.gallery. -----------Collector with private link will receive: 1. MP4 (h.264 (AVC, AAC LC) of 'Geomancer 4' 2. Owner’s Rights and Obligations-----------Preventative Conservation: Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work, uncompressed, lossless, high-resolution video and audio codecs, exhibition copies and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years. -----------Display: Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited. ‘Geomancer 4’-----------Copyright: The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work and of all images of the work.-----------Transfer of Ownership: The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. The seller must contact the artist to complete resale compensation. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist, Serwah Attafuah, and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.

Geomancy (Greek: γεωμαντεία, "earth divination") is a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand.


**About The Purchase**

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**Medium**:  Single channel, born-digital video with audio

**Dimensions**: 2160 x 2160 px, 29.970 fps

**Edition For Sale**: 01/01


**Preventative Conservation**

Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work, high-resolution, uncompressed, lossless video and audio codecs, exhibition copies and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years.


**Display**

Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited. Collector acknowledges that if they do not choose to purchase an archival package, they may not be receiving work at its highest quality output. 

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The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work, and of all images of the work.

**Transfer of Ownership**

The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. The Seller must contact the artist to complete resale compensation. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.

Geomancer 4

Wednesday Kim

Year: 2021 Medium: Singl-channel, born-digital video with audio Dimensions: 4000 x 5500 px, 29.970 fps, 00:00:03. -----------About The Installation: “The digital undertakers bathed and shrouded my memories. A destitute smell, sing a cryptic song together. The song was meant to be forgotten. We are pieces of companions of the distressed. The bear woman told me, "It was two cabbages having a terrible fight. They were tearing each other’s leaves off with such ferocity that soon there was nothing but torn leaves everywhere and no cabbages.” -Leonora Carrington. Then we started smelling. 'Cryptic Nostalgia and the Digital Undertakers' references the Korean origin fable of Ungnyeo to comment on the recent egregious violence and racism perpetrated against Asian women in the United States. As the tale goes, a tiger and a bear pray to divine king Hwanung to transform them into humans. Moved by their devotion, the divine king instructs them to go into a cave and stay out of sunlight for 100 days. While the tiger grows impatient and leaves prematurely, the bear (Ungnyeo) remains determined. After 100 days of seclusion in the cave, the bear transforms into a woman. All alone as a human and driven to a mad depression without a husband, the bear-woman prays beneath a sacred tree to be blessed with a child. Once again hearing her prayers, Hwanung takes Ungnyeo as his wife and, shortly thereafter bears a son who goes on to become the founder of the Korean nation. This folklore, mediated by Kim’s signature hyper-surrealist style, takes on new and sinister overtones through her dark reading of the Asian female in America. -----------About the Artist: Wednesday Kim  is an interdisciplinary artist and a co-founder of De:Formal Online Gallery. She is from Seoul, South Korea and is currently based out of California. Kim works with a mixture of analog and digital media including 3D animation, video, performance, installation, print, and sculpture. Her work is informed by personal experiences and human psychology, drawing upon wordplay, Wikipedia, voyeurism, and witticism. Kim derives surrealist imagery from nightmares, intrusive thoughts, and childhood trauma to portray the absurdity of information-saturated contemporary life. -----------About The Purchase:The Token ID points to a display copy of the artwork. The full collector package, is exclusively available through a private link that can only be transferred via the previous collector, TRANSFER, or left.gallery.-----------Collector with private link will receive: 1. mp4 (h.264, AAC LC) of 'Cryptic Nostalgia and the Digital Undertakers' 2. Owner's Rights and Obligations for 'Cryptic Nostalgia and the Digital Undertakers'---------Preventative Conservation: Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work, lossless, uncompressed, high resolution video and audio codecs, exhibition copies, and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years.-----------Display: Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited. Collector acknowledges that if they do not choose to purchase an archival package, they may not be receiving work at its highest quality output. -----------Copyright: The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work, and of all images of the work.-----------Transfer of Ownership: The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. Seller must contact artist to complete resale compenstation. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.

“The digital undertakers bathed and shrouded my memories. A destitute smell, sing a cryptic song together. The song was meant to be forgotten. We are pieces of companions of the distressed. The bear woman told me, "It was two cabbages having a terrible fight. They were tearing each other’s leaves off with such ferocity that soon there was nothing but torn leaves everywhere and no cabbages.” -Leonora Carrington

Then we started smelling.

*Cryptic Nostalgia and the Digital Undertakers* references the Korean origin fable of Ungnyeo to comment on the recent egregious violence and racism perpetrated against Asian women in the United States. As the tale goes, a tiger and a bear pray to divine king Hwanung to transform them into humans. Moved by their devotion, the divine king instructs them to go into a cave and stay out of sunlight for 100 days. While the tiger grows impatient and leaves prematurely, the bear (Ungnyeo) remains determined. After 100 days of seclusion in the cave, the bear transforms into a woman. All alone as a human and driven to a mad depression without a husband, the bear-woman prays beneath a sacred tree to be blessed with a child. Once again hearing her prayers, Hwanung takes Ungnyeo as his wife and, shortly thereafter bears a son who goes on to become the founder of the Korean nation. This folklore, mediated by Kim’s signature hyper-surrealist style, takes on new and sinister overtones through her dark reading of the Asian female in America.

**About The Purchase**

The metadata file for this NFT points to a display copy of the artwork. The full collector package, is exclusively available through a private link that can only be transferred via the previous collector, TRANSFER, or left.gallery.

**Medium**:  Single channel, Looped, Born-digital video with audio

**Dimensions**: 4000 x 5500 px, 29.970 fps, 00:00:03

**Edition For Sale**: 01/01


**Preventative Conservation**

Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work, lossless, uncompressed, high resolution video and audio codecs, exhibition copies, and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years.


**Display**

Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited. Collector acknowledges that if they do not choose to purchase an archival package, they may not be receiving work at its highest quality output. 

**Copyright**

The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work, and of all images of the work.

**Transfer of Ownership**

The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. Seller must contact artist to complete resale compensation. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.


Cryptic Nostalgia and the Digital Undertakers

Mark Sabb and Devon Moore

**About The Installation**:
In reference to Greek antiquity and aesthetics, *Prometheus Bound* (2019-2021) depicts Prometheus -- Titan god of fire and sculptor of humanity -- in his punishment by Zeus as a result of stealing fire from the gods and releasing to humanity as a gift. A winged Hermes sits and points at Prometheus in his suffering, whilst a bald eagle picks at his ribcage. Serving as an allegory for the way that creative excellence is punished and exploited by capitalist interests, the work offers sharp critique of contemporary creative economies whilst glorifying the martyred heroes who bring fire to their communities.


**About The Artists**:

**Devon Moore** aka Dev Moore is a net artist, curator, creative technologist, and member of the FELT collective. Dev’s work incorporates technology, modern-day youth experiences, personhood, music culture, and more all while referencing components of tech culture.

**Mark Sabb**, aka Mark Digital, is a net artist, curator, and founder of the FELT collective. Mark’s work focuses on themes related to gangsta rap, black history and culture, and the youth-oriented energy of hip hop. From the initial founding of FELT Mark has infused politics and protest into his brand of internet art.

**About The Purchase**:
The Token ID points to a display copy of the artwork. The full collector package, is exclusively available through a private link that can only be transferred via the previous collector, TRANSFER, or left.gallery.

**Medium**: Single-channel video with audio

**Dimensions**: 1080 x 1080 px 

**Duration** 00:00:24 at 29.970 fps

**Edition**: 01/01

**Collector with private link will receive**:

- MP4 (AVC, AAC LC)

- Owner’s Rights and Obligations  


**Preventative Conservation**:
Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work and exhibition copies, uncompressed, lossless video and audio codecs, manual, artist questionnaire, additional still and video documentation, additional metdata, and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years.


**Display**:
Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited. Collector acknowledges that if they do not choose to purchase an archival package, the purchased work will be displayed with lossy audio and video.

**Copyright**:
The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work, and of all images of the work.

**Transfer of Ownership**:
The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.

Prometheus Bound

Margarethe Kollmer

"unprotected data becomes cyber-porn drama"

 'The Thing Is' is a semi-fictional 3d animation that combines transferred images of internet porn with blog post text fragments that ask for guidance. Surreal effects occur due to the translation of material, renegotiating boundaries of bodies and distinct meanings. Additional imagery is taken from public parks, representing public space in its physical form. With the anthropomorphic figures remaining completely motionless, the camera is the only actor. In this way the work investigates questions of agency and objectification in a hyper-surveilled environment.

'The Thing Is’ comprises a 30 min film version that creates a coherent narration from the material, a series of autonomous clips that can be shown separately and 3D prints of the figures in the animation. 

the thing is

Dorine van Meel

In Phoenix’s Last Song the viewer is presented with the legend of the paradisaical bird who descends to earth in order to die. Whilst the sun sets fire to the pyre of twigs on which she lays, the phoenix sings a song to the child that will be born from her ashes. Her words are a call to think and live against the patriarchal, capitalist and colonial power structures that define the world as we know it. The text draws on the work of feminist thinkers like Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Simone de Beauvoir en Emma Goldman, who each look at the ways in which institutions like the bourgeois family, state education, the legal apparatus inscribe the child within these power structures. Against this background, Phoenix’s Last Song opens up a space to imagine how a new world may arise out of a burning of the old.

Original Music by Sami El-Enany    
Voice-over by Emma Bennett

Phoenix's Last Song

Sara Ludy

Year: 2018 Medium: TIFF Dimensions: 1920 x 1080 px,  30 fps, 00:00:25. -----------About The Installation: This work deliberately has no description, in order that the text not confine it. Sara Ludy’s practice nurtures a habitual attempt to dissolve the constrictions that human perception of spacetime binds her work. Ludy wants her work to be free; encountered for just what it is; at the fundamental level of being and experience where there are moments without hierarchy or judgement. This work was intentionally chosen for Pieces of Me. It points to and disrupts the ubiquitous imagery of slick 3D rotating renders that occupy much of the global NFT marketplace. The piece initially presents a virtual space with rotating objects, hypnotically pulling the viewer in before the camera is readjusted, disrupting the scene’s performance and becoming a genuine, everyday, unperformed moment. '201811182134' is the beginning of a new body of work, which will unfold organically over time. Ludy set an example for artist and arts worker advocacy when she was one of the first artists to negotiate terms with her gallery to share NFT sales evenly amongst gallery workers.----------About The Artist: Sara Ludy is an American artist working in a wide range of media through an interdisciplinary practice. Hybrid forms emerge from the confluence of the everyday and the unconscious; reflecting an uncanny presence that questions our relationship to immateriality and space. Her work probes into the nature of being and the (im)materiality of things, how space/time/experience is a material that humans occupy, perceive, and participate in, and how everything exists simultaneously as quantum information, energy, and the representations we ascribe.-----------About The Purchase:The Token ID points to a display copy of the artwork. The full collector package, is exclusively available through a private link that can only be transferred via the previous collector, TRANSFER, or left.gallery.-----------Collector with private link will receive: 1. mp4 (h.264, AAC LC) of '201811182134' 2. Owner's Rights and Obligations for '201811182134'---------Preventative Conservation: Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work, lossless, uncompressed, high resolution video and audio codecs, exhibition copies, and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years.-----------Display: Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited. Collector acknowledges that if they do not choose to purchase an archival package, they may not be receiving work at its highest quality output. -----------Copyright: The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work, and of all images of the work.-----------Transfer of Ownership: The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. Seller must contact artist to complete resale compenstation. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.

This work deliberately has no description, in order that the text not confine it. Sara Ludy’s practice nurtures a habitual attempt to dissolve the constrictions that human perception of spacetime binds her work. Ludy wants her work to be free; encountered for just what it is; at the fundamental level of being and experience where there are moments without hierarchy or judgement.

This work was intentionally chosen for Pieces of Me. It points to and disrupts the ubiquitous imagery of slick 3D rotating renders that occupy much of the global NFT marketplace. The piece initially presents a virtual space with rotating objects, hypnotically pulling the viewer in before the camera is readjusted, disrupting the scene’s performance and becoming a genuine, everyday, unperformed moment. *201811182134* is the beginning of a new body of work, which will unfold organically over time.

Ludy set an example for artist and arts worker advocacy when she was one of the first artists to negotiate terms with her gallery to share NFT sales evenly amongst gallery workers.


**About The Purchase**

The metadata file for this NFT points to a display copy of the artwork. The full collector package, is exclusively available through a private link that can only be transferred via the previous collector, TRANSFER, or left.gallery.

**Medium**:  Digital-Born Video

**Dimensions**: 1920 x 1080 px, 30 fps

**Edition For Sale**: 01/01


**Preventative Conservation**

Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work, lossless, uncompressed, high resolution video and audio codecs, exhibition copies, and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years.


**Display**

Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited. Collector acknowledges that if they do not choose to purchase an archival package, they may not be receiving work at its highest quality output. 

**Copyright**

The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work, and of all images of the work.

**Transfer of Ownership**

The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. Seller must contact artist to complete resale compensation. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.

201811182134

Brody Condon

Screen capture of nudging high poly meshes in 3D software while listening to recordings of possessed children.

Duration: 00:03:01   
Video: 1920x1080   
Sound: [Occult Voices 1905-2007](https://www.ubu.com/sound/occult.html)

Exorcism: Annaliese

Perfume Area

Serpentine and Tam Dao are the names of two fragrances made by Comme des Garçons and Diptyque, respectively. They were reviewed by Perfume Area (Sydney Shen & Laurel Schwulst) in 2015.

In each video, Damon Zucconi’s voice reads aloud a perfume review. The voice is synthetic and has no texture, but is instead composed of phonemes that are pure sine waves.

By Laurel Schwulst, Sydney Shen, and Damon Zucconi, 2016 

serpentine + tam dao

"as the camera moves through a hazy field of colours in which a physical reality is yet to crystallise, a semi-transparent sheet flows majestically across the frame as if caught in a gust of wind. perhaps aspirations for a better future may be transient, but nonetheless they must fly" (thomas cuckle)

music and sounds produced and performed by.  
jesse osborne-lanthier and olle holmberg.  
installation photos by tim bowditch

disobedient children

Screen capture of nudging high poly meshes in 3D software while listening to recordings of possessed children.

Duration: 00:02:53   
Video: 1920x1080   
Sound: [Occult Voices 1905-2007](https://www.ubu.com/sound/occult.html)

Possession: Margaret

Screen capture of nudging high poly meshes in 3D software while listening to recordings of possessed children.

Duration: 00:03:52   
Video: 1920x1080   
Sound: [Occult Voices 1905-2007](https://www.ubu.com/sound/occult.html)

Possession: Janet

Screen capture of nudging high poly meshes in 3D software while listening to recordings of possessed children.

Duration: 00:04:33   
Video: 1920x1080   
Sound: [Occult Voices 1905-2007](https://www.ubu.com/sound/occult.html)

Possession: Russell

Screen capture of nudging high poly meshes in 3D software while listening to recordings of possessed children.

Duration: 00:01:17   
Video: 1920x1080   
Sound: [Occult Voices 1905-2007](https://www.ubu.com/sound/occult.html)

EVP: Amie

"oh yes, i will practice my canon proudly, a golden image of stark blue skies, of dams and dykes and waterworks, masters and guilds, and how they transformed into dedicated directors, offshore engineers, shiny-looking cars on lease claim our streets with logos of well-designed brands stuck to their windows – one empty baby seat in the back."

the video "beyond the nation state i want to dream" deals with the construct of nation states and national identity in europe, examining the binaries and mechanisms of exclusion at work in the constitution of a ‘we’. consisting entirely of slowly decomposing and recomposing computer-generated images, the video juxtaposes apparently innocuous representations of national identity with sites on which the intersection of nationhood, colonialism and imperial conquest have been made manifest. these sites range from fort elmina, the first european settlement in west africa, to the room in which the 1884 berlin conference took place. such imagery is accompanied by a dream-like monologue in which a narrator attempts in vain to escape from a present in which the historical violence of the nation state is perpetuate in the most mundane aspects of everyday life.

music and sounds for the video are produced and performed by jesse osborne-lanthier and olle holmberg, with a voice-over by therese ladegaard henningsen.

beyond the nation state i want to dream

Habib William Kherbek

Retrodiction is a collection of video poems created in dialogue with the urban geography of Berlin. Over the course of three months, Kherbek collected images of found, or, to use Kherbek's term, "second-hand", language that he encountered in the city and then wrote poems using the found language as titles for the works.

The 45 works that constitute Retrodiction extend ideas developed in two earlier projects, Ephemera (2014), a video collection of 45 poems posted to Youtube featuring the writer reading original works composed over 45 days in London, and Are You Free from Sin? (2015), a "second-hand language" project involving words Kherbek found while living in New York City which he subsequently arranged into a poem and live-posted on Instagram. The poems of Retrodiction exist in literary, sonic and visual dimensions, engaging technologies of distribution and mediation as much as language itself.

with special thanks to William Glucroft 