Freedom Portal


​The Freedom Portal project was developed by Third Space during 2017 as a platform to organize unauthorized shows in the public space.

The platform works in the following way :
  1. The artist chooses a public venue where they want to present their work.
  2. Third Space creates there an official-looking WiFi network, by plugging-in wireless routers to sockets on the wall.
  3. We let visitors be tricked into connecting to this network. They will unintentionally experience the installation as it pops-up onto their phones.

Throughout 2017, Third Space produced three works targeting the three biggest art museums in Finland : Kiasma, Ateneum and Kansallismuseo. Each work was a rip-off of the museum's official web page, assuming the identity of the institution in order to challenge some of its positions. Together these installations received about 4500 visitors and each lasted for about a month until they were discovered and removed by the museum's staff.

Ateneum
Minna Henriksson
Scientific illustrations to keep silent about

The intervention adds to knowledge about the oeuvre of the widely loved von Wright brothers, whose blockbuster exhibition opened in Ateneum in October 2017. In the WiFi network of Ateneum we could see what the exhibition didn’t show. Such were Wilhelm von Wright’s racial studies of Rufina in 1843. Rufina was a 10 years old girl, shipped from Argentina to Sweden all by herself on request of race scientist Anders Retzius, who needed “an indigenous specimen”. After the drawings and measurements, she was given to an upper class family in Gothenburg as servant.
http://minnahenriksson.com/

Kansallismuseo
Steve Maher
Nórë Carmëcoa

The Finnish National Museum's website Translated to Tolkien's High Elvish, Quenya, which is based on Finnish. The project reflects on the nature of national institutions as venues through which state actors mythpoecise the past in the process of building national identity.
http://www.stevemaher.net/

Kiasma
Third Space collective
Un-allowed Open Call

Installed during the "ARS17 - Hello World!" exhibition. Each visitor can submit their artworks as a file, and these would be (supposedly) considered for inclusion into Kiasma's permanent exhibition. Large parts of the open call text are directly copied from the actual website of Kiasma.
The platform is open-source with instructions on how to deploy it. Feel free to use it : https://github.com/sebpiq/FreedomPortal
Supports | Taike | Kipsari | Stereolux

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