I never set out to create an NFT-it came as a surprise. These solutions are why I am creating my first NFT collection, The Hero 25FPS. It's really about finding solutions to these catastrophes. These new heroes are the ones I have set out to support, starting today. The heroes-the ones who sacrifice everything-can bring new light to illuminate this world. First, we must ask who can bring the solutions we need. My favourite philosopher Noam Chomsky once said: "We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas." Right now, I think we need both. Why this heroic posture, with the horse that dominates the landscape? Why is this landscape there? All of this is unanswered, I want the public to complete the work with their own interpretation, to see in it their own ideas of heroism. As Marcel Duchamp said, the public has to complete the work. I can't predict what each person looking at The Hero will take away. It has always been very important to create strong images. His Holiness the Dalai Lama said that, next time, he is not going to reincarnate as a man but as a woman. The first thing you see on the screen is a woman on the horse. They can come in many forms: pacifist, feminine, self-sacrificial, collective. Today, heroes can come bearing white flags. This work is now a global call for new heroes. The Hero by Marina Abramović at Piccadilly Lights © Circa In 2022, the white flag I held all those years ago stands for peace. Or it could be President Volodymyr Zelensky, who stands alone as a leader with courage, at a time when the morality of our politicians is at such a low. Today, a hero could be Txai Surui, a young climate activist who was the only Indigenous woman to speak at the Cop26 climate conference, who challenged world leaders to take strong action and reminded us that “it is always necessary to believe the dream is possible.” It could be Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot who raised $6.7m in the first days after the Russian invasion to support Ukraine. Heroes that can inspire us to be better, and to work together, not against each other. We need heroes that can bring new light to illuminate us. On the Circa network of screens, we have this white horse. Every day is a shaky, uncertain, constantly changing landscape. Our planet needs uncorrupted heroes with morality, who embody courage and bring real change. In the end, we must all surrender to change. In 2001, Vojo died, and white is also the colour of death. At the climax of his oration he threw his party membership card into the crowd-an amazing gesture. Handsome in his raincoat and necktie, his hair piled up majestically, he stood in the middle of Marx and Engels Square and gave a passionate speech renouncing his membership with the Communist Party and denouncing Yugoslavia’s "Red Bourgeoisie", who controlled the government. I remember, in 1968, as students in Yugoslavia protested against the government to demand freedom and rights, he did something heroic that impressed me not just with its bravery but with its solidarity and its compassion. Why a white flag? My father never surrendered to anything. In The Hero, I am sitting on a white horse, just as my father so often did, and holding a large white flag that flutters in the wind. Many of his friends were killed alongside him. He fought with a group of guerrillas who made lightning raids on the Germans. In pictures of him from the war he is almost always riding a white horse. He was a very handsome man, with a strong, stern face and a thick, powerful-looking head of hair. Vojo was a national hero, a soldier who fought the Nazis with the Yugoslav partisans, communists led by Tito. When I filmed The Hero in 2001, I was grieving the loss of my father.
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