CAPITALISM IN THE PUBLIC REALM – Text art placed on commercial commodities, consumerist and popular culture objects as subliminal statements in the Public Realm. The collectibles are made as soft intervention advertisement products while the usage acts as a conceptual and integrated information device for the statement.
MAL EDUCACIÓN totebag (2023) in white canvas. Fits a laptop.
GOLD GUIDES ME in Arabic Calligraphy (2023) on a traditional trucker or baseball cap. White only with green stitches.
LIQUID ASSETS Russian version (2023). Aluminum water bottle. Colors: Black bottle with Gold metallic lettering. Size: 16 oz
LIQUID ASSETS Russian version (2023, Russian cocktail coaster for your Moscow Mule, White Russian or Bloody Mary.
HOW WE LIVE TOGETHER TOTE BAG (2020)
A black canvas tote bag with gold metallic lettering produced in 2020 as part of Senstad’s exhibition HOW WE LIVE TOGETHER and 4 film short film series with acclaimed actor Bill Sage (available to rent through the Film-Makers Cooperative in New York). The tote bag text mirrors the text art installation in corporate brushed brass signage. HOW WE LIVE TOGETHER is based on French philosopher Roland Barthes 1977 University lecture series How To Live Together that looks at distanced tolerance and idiorrhythmic living formats as solutions to societal functionality and the dissolution of oppression.
SECURITIES – SECURE-TIES ALUMINUM WATER BOTTLES (2021) On the commodification, exploitation and colonization of natural resources. The finance term Securities has been deconstructed to amplify the bond of money and its power over the citizen.
Securities are stocks, bonds, preferred shares, money market instruments, futures, options, and hedge fund investments. The overriding characteristic of marketable securities is their liquidity.
Size: 32 oz. Colors: Red, Blue, White, Black. Text colors:Red and Blue.
The works created for the exhibition Mal Educación, are supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway and he Norwegian Government’s Grant for Artists/ Kulturdirektoratet
Capitalism in the Public Realm 