Frihetsförmedlingen

Monday, June 24th, the Supervisory Unit of the Swedish Public Freedom Service carried out a freedom inspection in Kungsbacka.

Our inspectors surveyed the city’s general freedom environment and checked to what extent market solutions risk restricting the freedom of action for the inhabitants of Kungsbacka.

Photo: Otto Mogren

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June 6-7, Frihetsförmedlingen is hosting the workshop “Designing the Parallel Society” in Minsk.

The workshop is part of the STATUS project, run by Konstepidemin (Sweden) in collaboration with Kryly Chalopa and others in Belarus.

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Latest news on wage slavery (Senaste nytt om löneslaveriet) is an Easter show at Gylleboverket, featuring works by Daria Bogdanska, Frida Klingberg, Frihetsförmedlingen, Johannes Samuelsson, Magdalena Nordin, Kanslibyrån and Sonia Hedstrand.

Gylleboverket, Östra Vemmerlöv
19-21 april 2019, kl 12-17

The exhibition is curated by Sonia Hedstrand and produced by Etta Säfve & Jona Elfdahl.

The second national meeting with the Network of Free Bureaucrats will take place at NAV in Stockholm.

The exciting afternoon starts with an inspirational lecture by the philosopher Jonna Bornemark, and will then continue with exercises and conversations. Finally there will be vegan dinner and drinks.

This is the second of the three national meetings with the network. The first one took place in Gothenburg, December 1st last year, and the third and final meeting in this round will be in Malmö later in 2019.

> more info on the Network of Free Bureaucrats (Swedish only)

Frihetsförmedlingen opens a one-day office on Drottninggatan in Stockholm. The trial is part of our endeavor to further improve our service to the Swedish public.

The pop-up office is open from 1– 6 PM, Saturday, March 9, and welcomes freedom-seeking people and others in the entire Stockholm region.

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Sunday,February 24th, Frihetsförmedlingen organizes Robotbyråkrati (Robot Bureaucracy): a meeting on Bureaucracy, Art and Artificial Intelligence at STPLN in Malmö.

In the research project Kim Svensson, AI, Frihetsförmedlingen is investigating various connections between artificial intelligence and bureaucracy, in collaboration with the cognitive scientist Simon Winter.

Now Frihetsförmedlingen presents an afternoon of lectures and discussions, where we can reflect together on the dark side of digitization, the hidden possibilities of bureaucracy and the role of art in a mediated world.

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In collaboration with the artist platform Skogen in Gothenburg, Frihetsförmedlingen gives an evening class including a brief history of labour society, a mapping of the contemporary situation of consumerism and wage-relationships and an introduction to the concepts that Frihetsförmedlingen investigates.

The Basic Course takes place on Monday, December 3rd, at 5 – 7:30 PM, and is part of a series of events during the fall of 2018. For more information see the calendar on the Frihetsförmedlingen website.

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Frihetsförmedlingen and Kanslibyrån collaborates officially for the first time in the exhibition Utrymningsplaner (Evacuation plans) at Varbergs konsthall.

The entire exhibition focuses on artistic strategies of resistance towards systems of obedience, social hierarchies and bureaucratization.

Utrymningsplaner is curated by Camilla Påhlsson, opens 22 September 2018 and is up until 6 January 2019.

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