In 2021, Rivka pitched her tents in the crypto arts scene.
It was at the peak of the Covid19 - pandemic, when she asked herself if it was possible to transport the experience of isolation into physical performing arts and present it in the digital crypto space.
As a member of the collective Art Progession Now, she created a solo dance performance piece with five acts which got broadcast live in February 2021 during the first (back then, online) edition of the Rare Effect NFT festival at Arroz estudios in Lisbon.
For the piece, she interviewed many people about their experience with social distancing, the lack of physical contact and their experience with isolation during this peculiar time. The piece also explored childrens experience of the pandemic.
The interviews were played anonymously during the performance and built the storyline.

Before each act, the audience was invited to stake crypto currency that was created especially for this performance, and by that, partake in the decision on how the piece would progress and what experience of the pandemic they would get presented.
After the performance, Rivka created and sold an NFT, which was a representation of the piece and thereby of the collection of people’s very intimate stories. The NFT showed one of the voting screen the audience got to see while watching the show.

The digital space has the power to create loneliness, but during the pandemic, might have saved some people from total isolation.
To perform the experience of loneliness and isolation as a dance performance in this digital space was an experiment, and a format that had not existed before.
As Rivka is a student of philosophy, she was interested in the power of ideas. Creating an NFT of this performance piece that has only been showed one single time, was an experiment as well, and by that she explored the never-old question of what art is, demonstrating how people choose to invest in purely conceptual ideas.