The exhibition “System Care” (Systemvård) comprises experimental strategies from the alternative aspects of bureaucracy and the undercurrents of administration. Here, society’s pain spots and logical fallacies are addressed, based on the daily work of office workers and civil servants. New rituals and protective measures are presented that constitute persistent attempts to ward off powerlessness and ethical stress.
The works in the exhibition constitute small-scale, yet powerful, ceremonial acts presented in an educational video format, but also contain ritual artifacts in the form of objects, images and photos.
The exhibition is opening on October 18th and is up until November 2nd
As a prequel there is a performative lecture on Friday the 17th of October titled “Making secret files and other powerful practices.” The performance is about bureaucracy, creativity and resistance. With the office workplace as a starting point, the work addresses contemporary people’s heavy addiction to systematizing everything in their environment. The event includes a short practical exercise, for which each participant is asked to bring a printed text-based document from their current workplace (There will be extra documents for those who have forgotten). The work contains music by Jon Ekström/Dödsvarg and is 60 minutes long.
More information about the exhibition space on the Ahlbergshallen website