Kanslibyrån will demonstrate new tools at Galleri Box in Gothenburg Saturday 24 Aug at 15.00. Kanslibyrån has been fighting against efficiency and productivity in the public arena for more than a decade. Now the bureau has developed a set of new tools, objects intended to help in a concrete way in the fight against rationalization and measurability. With a starting point in everyday issues around jobs, family, finances, relationships, attitudes, etc., the agency seeks to provide concrete support in how destructive norms and conventions can be counteracted.
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Cosmic Castration Prague
Per-Arne Sträng and me is participating in the show Cosmic Castration Prague at Gallery NTK, curated by Henrik Ekesioö, Mikael Goralski, Joakim Forsgren and Alexander Peroutka. The exhibition is opening on the 23rd of July 2019
Designing the Parallel Society
Frihetsförmedlingen is hosting the workshop “Designing the Parallel Society” in Minsk 6-7 June 2019
The workshop is part of the STATUS project, run by Konstepidemin (Sweden) in collaboration with Kryly Chalopa and others in Belarus.
Castration of Inner Spaces
Kanslibyrån is participating in the show Kastrering av inre rum (Castration of inner spaces) curated by Mikael Goralski and Paulina Drakenstedt at Crum Heaven, Högbergsgatan 38-40 in Stockholm. The show is up until 31 May, 2019.
Senaste nytt om löneslaveriet
Senaste nytt om löneslaveriet (Latest news on wage slavery) is an Easter show at Gylleboverket featuring works by Daria Bogdanska, Frida Klingberg, Frihetsförmedlingen, Johannes Samuelsson, Magdalena Nordin, Kanslibyrån and Sonia Hedstrand, curated by Sonia Hedstrand and produced by Etta Säfve & Jona Elfdahl.
Open 19-21 April 2019
2nd National meeting with Network of Free Bureaucrats
The second national meeting with the Network of Free Bureaucrats initiated by Frihetsförmedlingen and Cecilia Jonasson is held at NAV in Stockholm. We offer an exciting afternoon that starts with an inspirational lecture with the philosopher Jonna Bornemark, continues with exercises and conversations and ends with vegan dinner and drink.
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Robot bureaucracy in Malmö
Sunday 24 February 2019, Frihetsförmedlingen organizes a meeting on bureaucracy, art and artificial intelligence at STPLN in Malmö. Since one year back we are investigating artificial intelligence in the project KIM Svensson, AI, together with cognitive scientist Simon Winter. Now Frihetsförmedlingen invites you to an afternoon of lectures and discussion in order to think together about the dark side of digitization, the possibilities of bureaucracy and the role of art.
More information about the event Robotbyråkrati (swe)
Contraproduction in Trollhättan
Contraproduction – Everyday Resistance and Logical Short Circuits, is the title of Kanslibyråns new show at Konsthallen Trollhättan. The exhibition covers eleven years of Kanslibyrån’s activities, where two of the most extensive projects is the The Archive of Actions and The Phantom Administration. New to this show is an increased focus on the industrial aspects of our daily lives, portrayed in extensive attempts at deliberately pursuing counter-productive activities.
Opening 12 January 2019 (12.00-16.00) Intruduction by Peter Hagser and invited guest Bengt af Klintberg at 14:00
Alternative logic at Växjö Konsthall
Very welcome to Växjö Konsthall for an afternoon of and irrationality and subjective logic on Saturday 15 December 2018. Kanslibyrån hosts Alternative logic an event in-between performance, workshop, coffee break and school lesson. The day follows a carefully designed and structured model aiming to shift our view of everyday life and charge it with poetic and political content.
Image: Action No. 119: Arrange the fir cones in the forest
Basic course for freedom seekers
Together with the artist platform Skogen in Gothenburg, Frihetsförmedlingen gives a one evening course that includes a brief history of labour society, an mapping of the contemporary situation of consumerism and wage-relationships and an introduction to the concepts that Frihetsförmedlingen investigates. The course is part of a series of events that during the autumn of 2018, for more information see the calendar on the website.