Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!
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Sex Works is a limited-edition, 200-page collection of collages and photography made by Ester Kärkkäinen–known to noise music aficionados the world over as Himukalt.
In her early twenties, Himukalt was a stripper in various clubs in and around Reno, Nevada. This experience has informed her acclaimed musical work, made using a palette of noise, voice, and electronics. Since 2016, she has released over a dozen albums on labels such as Tesco Organisation, Total Black, Malignant Records, Found Remains, Old Europa Cafe, and Foul Prey.
The Himukalt project is not only a sonic one, though. She is also interested in the visual replication and reproduction of the body. In her art practice, this interest often emerges in the form of collaged photography or xerox art.
Some of this art has been packaged with her albums, and some has appeared on her Instagram or in the long-running multi-media project Sex Worker. But now she’s compiled the best pieces into a book-length archival collection, Sex Works.
Sex Works is over 200 pages, and it contains hundreds of photographs and collages, dozens of self-portraits, album art for all existing Himukalt releases, and other ephemera.
As of September 19th, this project has raised $7,500 of their $10,000 goal. This project has 11 days left to raise the $10,000 or it will not be funded. For a pledge of $60, you will get one book. For a pledge of $300, you will get one large collage. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rooms/sex-works-collages-and-photos-by-himukalt-ester-karkkainen?
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