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Videos in 16:9 HD, shown as installations with complementary material. Made between 2008 and 2010, from a collected archive fuelling speculative works, to painted videoportraits; from dialogical experiments setting up links between peoples and places to social science fiction speculating on the near future of current social trends; and a first attempt at modular storytelling (using exhibited videoinstallation in combination with published newspaper article and performative live talk).

Mafiya - speculative videoinstallation on fictional links through history and geography.

Gorgeousaurus - modular work: video, newspaperarticle, live talk, all on class conflict in Romania.

Battla 2010 - pitting skinheads vs. hiphoppers in a poetrybattle on stage.

La Comuna - linking refugees of the Paris Commune in 1871 with a peoples uprising in Buenos Aires in 2001

O! Children! - speculating on the esthetics of a future labor union for working children

2 Or 3 - archive on volunteer social work in Gothenburg, fuelling speculative works on a future peoples movement (The Standards and The Music)

Planet Love - rotoscoped portraits of radicals expanding the circle of inclusion for a global solidarity (Spanish Kalle - last surviving Swedish volunteer for the Spanish civil war and Phantom Zone Projector - interview with an idealist smuggler of refugees, filmed inside a prison)

Social Climber - collected photographs and quotes, painting a minimalist portrait of lifelong radical activity