Social Science Fiction means extrapolation of some minor current social trend or phenomenon into a near future scenario, presented as speculative esthetics. Speculative Esthetics are meant as a tool for opening up thinking about and imagining possible future alternatives.

O! Children!

Installation (posters, videos, woodblocks, prints, modified baseballcaps, membership cards and stamps, flyers, union songs of the 30's re-recorded, rollerblade performance etc.)

Accepting the pragmatic reality of the existence of child labour, the children have organized themselves without the aid of adults, and are demanding better working conditions - not an end to child labour.

Extrapolated from the examples of Manthoc and Bal Mazdoor Sangh.

Posterseries on a near future world where childlabourers and working streetchildren have formed their own unions. South American posters in Faux Woodcut style; North American posters in Union Campaign style.

Projection of animated painting with childrens' choir heard singing far off; interrupted by agitated older union representative, attempting to comprehend the new youth.

Uninon songs from the 30's american labor movement re-recorded - I'm Gonna Get Organized babe O' Mine and Which Side Are You On Boys? - featuring children's choirs and brass bands.

Premiered in soloexhibition at Platform in Vasa, Finland.

New installment of O! Children! produced for the show Our Broken American Hearts at Museet För Glömska in Norrköping, Sweden (show also includes works by f.x. Johanna Billing, Stig Sjölund, Maria Friberg), opens September 25:th 2009

A first sketch has been published in Aluma, a paper sold by the homeless of Malmö: