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Gluttony NFT: Kozachok’s Inferno

December 30, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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“What is going on here? In the third circle of Kozachok’s Inferno, we find the realm of Gluttony. After a life of over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, the souls who land in this circle of hell, are now symbolically and literally becoming a never ending supply of food for the smaller creatures.

[. . .]

“‘Kozachok’s Inferno’ is a personal version, a customized representation of the 9 circles of hell, influenced by Dante’s Inferno, the first part of Dante’s Divine Comedy, which is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is not a direct reproduction of Dante’s Inferno, I do not follow the accuracy of those layers or circles of hell, except the main theme (eg circle of Lust, of Gluttony, of Greed etc), but the reasons and punishments of each circle of hell will be different in my version.” [. . .]    –@kozachok, SuperRare, 2019

Categories: Digital Media
Tagged with: Circles of Hell, Crypto Art, Digital Arts, Gluttony, Inferno, NFTs, Punishment, Rivers, Third Circle, Torture

IKEA: The 10th circle of hell

June 16, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

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“It’s fitting that IKEA stores are organised in a series of winding circles with no easy escape. It’s not unlike the circles of hell that the protagonist of Dante’s Inferno must wander before heading on to Purgatory and then Heaven.

“But unlike the soul in Dante’s epic poem, you never get to Heaven. What awaits you once you’ve managed to locate and then purchase your Tuffing and Malfors is yet another circle of hell. This one is in your own home and the instrument of torture is an Allen key.” [. . .]

–Kasey Edwards, The Sydney Morning Herald, July 15, 2019

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2019, Australia, Circles of Hell, IKEA, Inferno, Paradiso, Purgatorio, Shopping, Sydney, Torture

The Art of Being Bombarded by Watermelons

September 14, 2017 By Professor Arielle Saiber

From an article on the artist Kawita Vatanajyankur:


“[…] Other videos, like ‘The Carrying Pole,’ above, suggest torments worthy of Dante or ancient mythology. And some audiences have asked whether she had a political aim, or if she meant to criticize abusive interrogation tactics like waterboarding in these endurance works. […]”    —Daniel McDermon, The New York Times, September 13, 2017

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2017, Bangkok, Performance Art, Thailand, Torture

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