Exhibition Six, 13 October – 14 November 2025
Mark Schroder
Derivative Art Investments (Phase Three), 2025
https://opensea.io/collection/7726-sc1
dairy-dairy; commodity derivative and derivative commodity; investment opportunity; fungible non-fungible; processed and packaged; reprocessed and repackaged; rehydrated and (re)hyped; up and go; trivial pursuits; slice of the pie; mild; tasty; glorious; non-fungible fungible; superfungible; sunshade; mellow yellow; melting moments; tropical snow; options and futures; future options; powerade; gatorade; lucozade; used and used by; past their prime; primo; derivative; new cycle and news cycle; cycle of renewal; mould or mold; dehydrated; expiration date; expired; zap.
Derivative is a criticism, a speculative investment, and an art making process. A copy of a copy of a copy. Cheese is a hackneyed money-metaphor. NFTs [are][were][?] just another buzz bin item in a proliferating hype cycle where the product, the service, the solution is overhyped and underwhelming. Keep chasing that cheese (and hoping the holes don’t line up).
Bio: Mark Schroder is an installation artist looking at trust and scams; success and failure; risk and reward.