Selected Projects 1983-2020

The Rashomon Project

2017–ongoing
A cinematic exploration of the increasingly polarized public discourse in relation to the transformation of the media landscape.
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The Good Rumor Project

2004–2016

A project where two rumors have been constructed and systematically spread across the border region of San Diego, US and Tijuana, Mexico, and then digitally tracked through a multifaceted strategy that combines viral/word-of-mouth marketing with methods from recent research on small-world networks.
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The Spin Word Project

2005–2008
A project which explores how new words — so called “spin-words” — are created and strategically inserted into the daily language by the political PR, lobbying, and spin-doctoring industry in order to influence the public opinion.
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The Compromise House Project

2001–2016
An experimental house project in which the concept of compromise is re-evaluated and explored as an innovative and experimentally creative principle. 
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The Scandal Syndrome

2008–ongoing
A project that investigates the phenomenon of art scandals as a symptom of the rise of political populism and the change of the media landscape.
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Magic Bureaucracy

2017–ongoing

A project which, through the lens of magic realism and a labyrinthic spatial narrative, explores bureaucracy as a cultural, psychological, and sociopolitical phenomenon from Max Weber’s “ideal bureaucracy” to the “audit society” of New Public Management.
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Bibliotheca Non Grata

2014–2016

A commissioned public artwork in the form of an imaginary library of rejected literature from across the world which have been collected through a world-wide social media campaign.
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The History of Goodness

1991–1999

A project which takes as its point of departure in the Swedish welfare state’s vision of the “good society” and how “goodness” is represented in politics, art and popular culture in today’s post-utopian society.
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The Wonderful World of Hobbies

1989–1995
An exploration in the hobby phenomenon in the development of the Swedish welfare state n relation to notions of labor, rationality and Protestant work ethic in the development of the Swedish welfare state from the 1930's to the 1970's.
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The Average Citizen

1999–2009

A project where a person who matched a statistical profile of an average citizen in Sweden, was offered the opportunity to influence the Swedish public opinion through a long-term strategic plan which combined research methods of social psychology experiments with the most sophisticated techniques of opinion making drawn from the lobbying, public relations and marketing industries.
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The Encyclopedia of Failure

1989–1998
An art project structured as an encyclopedia which explores a wide range of categories, aspects and notions of failure, with focus on how the different definitions of failure affect society in general and our thinking and actions in particular.
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INDI (Individual Currency Unit)

1997–2000

A reconstruction of a radical alternative monetary system based on the the visionary ideas of the 18th century utopists August Nordenskjöld and Carl Bernhard Wadström.
 

The Archive of Deleted Files

1995–1997
A web archive that contains deleted files recovered from the trash bins of thousands of computers connected to the Internet. The project takes its starting point in the relation between personal integrity, hacking, conspiracy theories and surveillance on the internet.
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