No Cancelled Trains This Weekend

Inga inställda tåg i helgen/No Cancelled Trains This Weekend
Artist book, animated video loop

Even though Sweden is among the richest countries in the world, years of neoliberal austerity politics have taught the Swedish people that to reduce public expenditure is needed in order to secure a prosperous future. Constant cuts accompanied by the far reaching privatization of basic state functions have transformed the former model welfare state into a neoliberal wet dream where the state actively assists in redistributing money from the poorest to the richest.

The former welfare state utopia now has the fewest hospital beds per citizen in the whole of the EU and a so dysfunctional public transport system that only Romania can be its match in the amount of delays and cancellations.

Inga inställda tåg i helgen/No Cancelled Trains This Weekend consists of collected news headlines about delays and cancellations in the privatized Swedish public transport system, and the work is presented both as an artist book (84 pages) and a projected text loop.


		Inga inställda tåg i helgen/No Cancelled Trains This Weekend Artist book, animated video loop Even though Sweden is among the richest countries in the world, years of neoliberal austerity politics have taught the Swedish people that to reduce public expenditure is needed in order to secure a prosperous future. Constant cuts accompanied by the far reaching privatization of basic state functions have transformed the former model welfare state into a neoliberal wet dream where the state actively assists in redistributing money from the poorest to the richest. The former welfare state utopia now has the fewest hospital beds per citizen in the whole of the EU and a so dysfunctional public transport system that only Romania can be its match in the amount of delays and cancellations. Inga inställda tåg i helgen/No Cancelled Trains This Weekend consists of collected news headlines about delays and cancellations in the privatized Swedish public transport system, and the work is presented both as an artist book (84 pages) and a projected text loop.



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