The Swedish government wants more private money in culture, through a tax deduction for gifts and a billion kronor to match private donations. This response to the inquiry argues that matching rewards those who can already raise money. Attracting a gift takes coordination work that nobody pays for, and that work falls on whoever depends most on a collaboration. Drawing on my thesis, it proposes counting that work first, paying for it directly, and opening the matching to smaller gifts.

Collaborative cultural initiatives in Sweden depend on coordination work that funders rarely see: applications, reports, schedules, contracts. Built on fifteen interviews, the thesis follows who carries that work and why it ends up with so few people. Supervised by Filip Wijkström.

Smart homes and AI are usually shown as weightless and cloud-like. In Eavesdrop the internet appeared as something heavy and worn, with cables, surveillance cameras and printed textiles hung through the room. A text on the shifts between private and public, the home and the network.

Three performers read three scripts in an interwoven order: the city as an archive of remains, the apartment as a scenography of marginalised lives, and the shift of housing from a right to a commodity. Written during a residency at Inter Arts Center, Malmö, and recorded at the general rehearsal in February 2020.

How lens-based technology changed what it means to watch a war, from the camera obscura to satellite television. The essay starts in a childhood garden, where my Dutch and German grandparents told their war stories every birthday, and ends with the Gulf and Iraq wars on our living-room screen. Also given as a lecture performance at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.