
Old Earth: Reactivation Sequence #20
2009
Old Earth: Reactivation Sequence #20 (2025 reactivation) is a digital collage of reactivated content from Iain Ball’s 2009-2020 era transmedia system “Old Earth Objects.” A Philips Sensual Massager — a late-2000s consumer sex toy — is elevated as a sacred relic or fetish object, set against figures locked in physical interaction with computer hardware. This work collapses sexual commodity, corporate design, and ritualistic reverence into a single potent image. It reactivates the Old Earth Objects project’s core investigation into Techno-Occultism, Technological Macabre, and Future-Primitivism — exposing the hidden erotic, devotional, and occult energies embedded within everyday high-tech products.
- Medium
- Digital Collage / Documentation Relic, NFT (Ethereum)
- Signed
- Yes
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- Original concept by Iain Ball, late 2000s. Reactivated and minted 2025 as part of the Old Earth: Reactivation Sequence. Minted as a 1/1 ERC-721 NFT on Ethereum (contract: 0x1ad27c5339d95eb08ad16bfddbbbfef73f8fccba, Token ID: 20). Directly from the artist’s collection. Artist-retained since creation. Full on-chain provenance is publicly verifiable on Etherscan and OpenSea.
- Location
- Blockchain (Ethereum) + Arweave
Notes
This piece might be titled "Old Earth: Reactivation Sequence #20", created in 2009
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Hans Bellmer
German · b. 1902

Bellmer similarly fetishized manufactured objects and the human body simultaneously, treating commodified forms as ritualistic and erotically charged artifacts that collapse desire and mechanical production into unsettling sacred imagery.

Paul McCarthy
American · b. 1945

McCarthy consistently elevates consumer products and corporate objects into perverse ritual fetishes, interrogating the intersection of sexuality, commodity culture, and reverence with the same provocative directness present in this digital collage.

Laurie Simmons
American · b. 1949

Simmons stages consumer objects and domestic commodities as subjects of strange devotion and desire, using photographic and collage techniques to expose the fetishistic charge embedded in mass produced objects and their relationship to human bodies.
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