An exhibition of experimental strategies from the alternative sides of bureaucracy, the undercurrents of administration and the esoteric practices of economics. It addresses society's pain points, logical fallacies and growth drive based on the daily work of office workers and white-collar workers. New protective measures are presented which constitutes stubbornness Try to ward off powerlessness and ethical stress.

In the exhibition “Administration rituals” a counter-movement is proposed – a twilight bureaucratic a community of acting officials who invent various techniques to escape frustration, create peaceful zones and pour warmth into the spaces between institutions. By transforming everyday administrative routines into ritual acts, the possibility of creating cracks in systems that otherwise seem closed is explored.

The works in the exhibition constitute small-scale, yet powerful, ceremonial acts presented in the form of video, installation, objects, images and photographs.

John Huntington (b. 1981, Gothenburg) works in a conceptual tradition expressed through performance, sculpture, photography, text and installations. With various forms of interventions and statements, he questions taken-for-granted agreements about everyday life, work environments, public institutions and political spaces. He is also co-founder of the two institutions Kanslibyrån (with Per-Arne Sträng) and Frihetsförmedlingen (with Lars Noväng).

John Huntington received the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts' exhibition grant from the Folke Hellström-Linds Fund 2024The scholarship includes an exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, funds to carry out the exhibition and an exhibition catalogue.

Image: © John Huntington/BUS 2026 “Vibeke, Registrar, Municipal Management Administration, Halmstad Municipality”.