Botandets iver/Frenzie to cure is acted out in dialogue with research areas of public art, artist-lead culture, participatory arts and performative forms of research and research presentation. It builds on the doctoral thesis of researcher in Social Work, at Göteborg University, Tobias Davidsson, Understödets rationalitet – En genealogisk studie av arbetslinjen under kapitalismen/The rationality of public poor relief. A genealogy of the work strategy under capitalism, https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/38579) The tour also tries to set genealogical readings in motion in it’s guided walks by activating two layers of temporalities simultaneously. The audience walks through now-and-then-time in the same present. Botandets iver/Frenzie to cure has self-proclaimed connections or attaches itself onto contemporary etnographical techniques – for organizational studies of moving objects – of shadowing. It moves close enough along activities and organizations to be able to act from within these organizations. Is the lecture given at Skönhetsfabriken (The Beauty Factory) spa and gym a sales pitch or an event for potential future customers? An ironical lecture on wage labor for a critical art audience, or for experienced labour working with related areas of health, social care, social work etcetera? The preceeding research was carried out with historical resources such as Folkminnesarkivet (Archive of People’s memories), Stadsarkivet (City Archive), in dialogue with the Göteborg Museum of Medical History, and through a method of walks and shadowing by artist/curator Maja Hammarén and artists Johanna Willenfelt (phd student in art at University of Cumbria, UK), Cecilia Germain and Ioana Cojocariu. In its’ subjects the projects also relates to studies of the history of institutions, power and doubleness of care (Focault et al). In the project’s production – the participatory form of a bus-tour through Göteborg with guided tours with performative elements, on three places for historical institutions for public poor relief and mental care – this research project plays with notions of public and semi-public space and participation, setting-up mixed-up, ambivalent, impure as well as more classic forms of participation. Botandets iver/Frenzie to cure was financed by Kulturrådet/Swedish Arts Council and Göteborg Arts Funding. It was first planned as a part of ICIA Institute for Contemporary Ideas and Arts’ curatorial programme Aestetics of Law, before Hammarén left ICIA and formed KONSTARBETE KAS (Art Labour KAS) which Botandets iver/Frenzie to cure was then produced under. The organization is a new selforganized arts platform with the ambition to construct a usable platform for artists’ initiatives and collective work without the reproduction of hierarchical forms of production.