In his 2001 book with the programmatic title Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World, Zygmunt Bauman sketches in an almost stereotypical way a concept of community, one that not only seems to be far away, sunken into history, but that, for all that we know, might never actually have existed: a community that is […]

Im APPENDIX (2010), der als Ergänzung zum Film ŚWIEŻE WIŚNIE entstand, spricht die Schauspielerin Klara Bielawka darüber, welche Wirkung das ehemalige Lager in Falstad auf sie hat: «Ich bin zum ersten Mal in einem Konzentrationslager, aber das macht keinen Eindruck auf mich.» Was sich einst an diesem Ort ereignet hat, ist für Klara nicht erfahrbar, […]

What is produced in the process beyond the community and the social? And what material and discursive results are created by participatory practices and artworks? Magda Tyżlik-Carver looks at Yoko Ono’s Cut Pieces and at the social sphere of social media to consider what aesthetics of common/s might be in a post-participatory age.