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‘Can you steal back something that’s already stolen?’: how radical art duo Looty repatriated the Rosetta Stone
Art duo repatriate digital surrogates of culturally significant objects taken during colonisation.
Art duo Looty have been digitally repatriating artefacts such as the Rosetta Stone to their places of origin using a bevvy of tech, including Lidar 3D scanning, location-based augmented reality (AR), blockchain and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) technology. The art duo are ‘looting back’ stolen cultural artefacts from museums founded in the colonial era. It’s a clever but also very important project for raising awareness of the importance of repatriation of cultural property to their country or community of origin. Just days before this article came out, a ceremony held in the Wren Library at Trinity College Cambridge saw four spears taken by James Cook and Joseph Banks on 29 April 1770 permanently repatriated to the La Perouse Aboriginal Community.
