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blockchain as record
blockchain as record
block·​chain as re·​cord : Explorations on the frontline of digital poetics and the ways blockchain provenance can activate poetry by making it transactable. The use of blockchain inscriptions as medium and message.

Arrangements

Arrangements is a collaboration with the Francisco Carolinum Museum in Linz, created to celebrate the 200th birth year of Anton Bruckner.

At the heart of this project is poetry and music.

The Museum commissioned a new poem from Caballero, who wrote a response to one of Bruckner’s letters — a proposal to a young woman he hardly knew.

This letter prompted Caballero to consider what it means to know anyone at all, leaning into the idea of both musical and interpersonal “arrangements.”

The 824 editions of Arrangements, a generative series in collaboration with artist Harto, combines the text of Caballero’s poem with musical scores and represents the infinite ways we can rewrite a single story.

Cord

Cord was offered as part of the Sotheby’s Natively Digital Bitcoin Ordinal auction in January 2024. Cord became the first poem sold by a living poet in the history of Sotheby’s.

Book Sculptures

Caballero’s Book Sculptures are an eight-part series that questions how society values poetry. This series proposes the book as a sculptural object, and will see Caballero print eight different books, each as an edition of one, with a unique ISBN and the anatomy and structure of a traditional book.

The books in this series contain only one poem, printed 197 times in their pages. When taken as integers, the digits in 197 add up eventually to 8, a number that represents abundance.