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Mattias Åkeson looks into the relationship between the individual, the collective and society. KLICKER deals with the relation between confirmation, control and desires. The idea comes from an article ont how TAG-teaching (using a clicker to train animals) was developed as a pedagocical method in school to be used on pupils. The clicker became an interesting metaphor for our society today. All interpersonal relations, both professional and private, colorored by New Public Management. A kind of aesthetics of working life that draws nourishment from meeting rooms, workplace meetings, ventilated offices, directives and goal fulfillments.

Mattias Åkeson is a visual artist based in Sweden. He studied at the Art Academy in Bergen, Norway and graduated in 2001. Today he divides his time between artistic practice, teaching, exhibition design and projectmanager for public comissions. He is dealing with Scandinavian welfare, middleclass consumption identity, and the relation between community as a collective and the individual. He has been doing projects looking at the shopping mall, the Art gallery and the kindergarten. He works with various materials as film, installation, sculpture, photography and painting.