An open conversation will be held at Skånes konstförening on Tuesday 16 May at 16-18, hosted by the project City Fugue.
“What if strategies and methods developed to organize music were to guide urban development processes?”
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Pop-up Call Center
The Control Group performs a Pop-Up Call Center in Seved, Malmö on Tuesday April 25, as part of the Meteor project Conflicting Spaces.
Our objective is to gather comparable data on how residents in the Seved area perceive their neighbourhood in relationship to the project’s curatorial statement.
Open Freedom Lab
Frihetsförmedlingen is hosting an open meeting at Österängens konsthall 7-8 October 2016. For two days, we will gather freedom seekers, scholars, experts, practitioners and the general public to discuss and examine the role of freedom in today’s and tomorrow’s society.
Our program includes a great width of perspectives conveyed in theory and practice through open discussions, inspiring lectures and freedom exercises.
The Art of Doing Nothing
Saturday 2 July 2016 at 14:00 Frihetförmedlingen organizes a public manifestation in Gothenburg, at Kungsportsplatsen, where we will exercise the art of doing nothing for twenty minutes. I will be on site (by “Kopparmärra”), along with John Huntington, at 1:30 pm, to give instructions and hand out start numbers.
Open Freedom Exercise in Malmö
The Swedish Public Freedom Service invites the general public in Malmö to a simple but important exercise in freedom.
The Freedom Agency’s mission is to expand the free space for all citizens. Through our freedom meetings, various free strategies can be tested while the concept of freedom can be discussed under pleasant and uncomplicated forms.
After Labour
Together with artist John Huntington I’m participating as the Swedish Public Freedom Service in the exhibition ”After Labour” 12 Dec 2015 – 21 Feb 2016 at Kalmar Konstmuseum. Exhibiting along with us is the American artist Jenifer Lyn Morone.
As initiators of Frihetsförmedlingen (The Swedish Public Freedom Service) John and I are invited to give our view on the relation between labour, value and capitalism.
For the duration of After Labour, visitors are invited to experience freedom seeking at the Freedom Office on site.
Meet or Measure
The Conversatory participates in Folkbildarforums conference “Mätas eller Mötas”, November 17-18, in Linköping. Together with Per Johansson and Fredrik Björk I will lead two separate conversatories, related to the conference program.
The Conversation as a Commons
November 6-7, the Conversatory travels to Bologna, Italy, to present our paper “The Conversation as Commons” in the format of a Conversatory at the 1st IASC Thematic Conference on the Urban Commons.
First Regional Freedom Office
In October Frihetsförmedlingen inaugurates its first permanent office, in Hässleholm in the south of Sweden. The regional office will be open on weekdays 10-12, for anyone in need to discuss options, support structures and strategies for emancipation with our skilled freedom officers.
Hidden Art Conversations
The Conversatory participates in the Meteor exhibition “Dold konst 2015” with two public Conversatories, on the hidden and the open. The conversations will be taking place in “Konversatorielunden”, Kungsparken, Malmö