CAPITALISM IN THE PUBLIC REALM – GGM HOLDINGS – An activistic platform utilizing the speculative NFT market and its mechanisms.
GOLD GUIDES ME HOLDINGS / GGM HOLDINGS is a fake holdings company created by artist Anne Katrine Senstad for the purpose of displaying and producing critical media, technology and not-for-sale text based minted NFT’s on GGM Holdings Opensea platform and Instagram page. This form of activist publishing is a medium to display anti arms-industry, anti warfare, and observations on oligarch and plutocrat philosophies and enterprises as statements, as well as utilize Senstad’s finance world Capitalism in the Public Realm text based neon statements in video format, made available to a wider audience, and as a form of direct activism through placement on the speculative market arena.
GGM HOLDINGS was first established while at an artist residency in the UAE in 2014 and as part of the initial research for Gold Guides Me – Capitalism in the Public Realm, produced in 2015. The motivational byline for GGM holdings reflects a generalized wholesale of art as both commodity and currency, the corporatization and colonization of the artistic domain and agency, questioning new formats of art ownership, advocacy and production.
LIQUID ASSETS (Russian Version) NFT, (2022), Video, 1920×1080), 1 min loop by Anne Katrine Senstad.
LIQUID ASSETS – The video NFT version of LIQUID ASSETS in Russian, addresses the spectacle of the finance world and its domination, ethics and value systems, created in response to the invasion of Ukraine and the growth of the arms industry as a result and facing the threat of a total liquidation of its societal portfolio and its inhabitants.
The font is created in the style and aesthetic of the corporate and governmental plaque in a somber dark heavy metal or military logo. LIQUID ASSETS points to the value reduction of the citizen and human life to a gram of expendable currency.
The work is dedicated to the Ukrainian people and in support of humanitarian efforts to secure safety for refugees and Ukrainian citizens effected by the wrongful invasion of Ukraine.
The artworks created for the exhibition MAL EDUCACIÓN are supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway and the Norwegian Government’s Grant for Artists/ Kulturdirektoratet Statens Kunstner Stipend for Etablerte Kunstnere.
Capitalism in the Public Realm 