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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

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

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Link to the Facebook-event

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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.

Frihetsförmedlingen and Kanslibyrån collaborates officially for the first time in the exhibition Utrymningsplaner (Evacuation plans) at Varbergs konsthall. The exhibition is focusing on artistic strategies of resistance towards systems of obedience, social hierarchies and bureaucratization. The duo-show opens 22 September 2018 and is up until 6 January 2019. The exhibition is curated by Camilla Påhlsson.

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More about the exhibition

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Cecilia Jonasson begins her one year long employment as Sweden’s freest bureaucrat (Sverige friaste byråkrat) in September 2018. The job is a unique position where Cecilia will work towards increased freedom and less wage labour for the multitude. This contradictory employment is both a performative artwork and a paid position. Cecilia will form the artwork together with Frihetsförmedlingen in many activities directed towards both the general public and different institutions.

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More information about the project

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(To see the old webpage with all events from the period 2009 – 2018)