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Kybernein Institute at Index Foundation
The Campaign
Location: Public gathering at Index Foundation in Stockholm, 21 August 2020
Kybernein Institute presents the exhibition The Campaign during one evening at Index Foundation. The Campaign is a new investigation of how a network of think tanks led a hidden revolution in Sweden during the 70s and 80s which transformed the foundation of a unique social model.
A Powerful Troll Factory Hiding in Plain Sight
The Swedish Welfare Model - A Greater Threat Than Communism
Episode 1
This is the first episode in a series of films revolving the spectacular paradigm shift, where the Swedish Welfare model was dismantled and replaced with the Neoliberal social and economic model.
"With Kybernein and in our projects, we want to explore and use both artistic and political strategies, to make visible how new descriptions of reality are constructed."
Film by Kybernein Institute
The Swedish Troll Factory
A film that investigates the invisible strategies and power interests behind a unique disinformation campaign and how it manipulates the democratic system. The film uncover a massive disinformation campaign against the Swedish welfare model that started in the 1970s, that led to an ideological, economic and political paradigm shift. The campaign is unique in the world in its strategic structure and extensive scope.
Read more about the film here
Film by Kybernein Institute
The Swedish Welfare Model
The animation presents the Swedish welfare model – a unique economic model that managed to combine profitability for business and industry with welfare and equality, and a belief in democracy. Through a disinformation campaign with false facts, this successful model was declared dead and described as a naïve utopia. But can we bring life and spread new knowledge about this model? And question the claim that “there is no better functioning alternative” to today's Neoliberal theory.
Film by Kybernein Institute
The Whistleblower
The film is a re-enactment of the Swedish whistleblower Sven Grassman and is based on his books and life story. In the 70s and 80s, Sven Grassman was one of Sweden's most respected economists with several key positions in the public administration, and was often hired for various research assignments. But his career came to an abrupt end, when he was ostracized and bullied when he was the only whistleblower to question false facts and statistics that were disseminated together with a new descriptions of reality that began to circulate in the media and in economic research in the 1970s. Ten years after he denounced the falsification of the statistics, he was officially proven right when the National Accounts were reluctantly corrected. But this had no impact on the ongoing dismantling of the successful Swedish welfare model.
Infographic map by Kybernein Institute
The Campaign
The work unravel the strategies behind a massive disinformation campaign that led to an economic, political and ideological paradigm shift, where Sweden in the 70s began to dismantle the unique Swedish welfare model. Even today, Swedish official historical record is distorted by the disinformation campaign.
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Articles by Kybernein Institute
Kybernein Appendix
In this appendix you can find more information about The Campaign and The Swedish Troll Factory.
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Kybernein Institute at Konstfack Research Week
Institutionalizing Voices
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A discussion around artistic practices, think tanks, research and institutional behaviours in relation to the case of Kybernein Institute and The Campaign. With Nathalie Gabrielson, artist and director of Kybernein Institute, and Marti Manen, curator and director of Index Foundation as well as guests Pamela M. Lee, art historian and professor at Yale University, and Daniel Suhonen, director of the think tank Katalys.
Kybernein Institute at Index Foundation
The Campaign
Public gathering at Index Foundation in Stockholm
Kybernein Institute presents the exhibition The Campaign during one evening at Index Foundation. The Campaign is a new investigation of how a network of think tanks led a hidden revolution in Sweden during the 70s and 80s which transformed the foundation of a unique social model.
Spela video
Interview by Kybernein Institute
Think Tank Aesthetics
Interview with Pamela M. Lee Carnegie Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Yale University.
Spela video
Interview by Kybernein Institute
Performativity of Think Tanks
Interview with Daniel Suhonen, founder of the Swedish think tank Katalys.
Kybernein Academy
The Whistleblower
The Campaign Lecture
Kybernein Academy
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Exhibition by Kybernein Insitute
The Campaign
Kybernein Institute presents The Campaign at Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm, 17 April - 13 September 2020.
Find out more about the exhibition here
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