Commons / Uncommons

This season, the Onassis Digital Program explores the dipole of Commons and Uncommons. Through a series of talks, workshops, performances, commissioned works we investigate the dialectics between forms of sharing and appropriating, contributing to the commons and extracting, pausing and overexploiting, selling and giving.

We consciously choose to embark this journey from the position of the commons and then explore the forms that instrumentalise them in order to oppose and neutralize them, rather than using property as the norm from which we are going to explore deviations. In this deem, this as an ethical position emphasizing the communing as the canonical rather than the deviant form of organizing; but we also reflect on the broader socio-technical phenomena that are formative of contemporary societies of technogovernmentality.