Written for Weitere Merkmale exhibition opening, Vienna 2026

Commonplaces. 

extralinguistic cognition

As we move through the world, we drift further and further away from our community of origin, with its commonly shared habits and familiar “language games.” Outside this community, danger is everywhere — unpredictable, constant, and, full of horror. 

in Data Surplus, in Logic of Private Property. 

Where Everything can be reduced to different opinions,. Reflexive impotence is epidemic, our imagination is being instrumentalized as a form of system justification. 

lets remember — Pessimism is a privilege that we dont have. 

Graph theory has no attention for the gaps. For now, lets stay there. 

We have gossip and curiousity. Our main productive forces toward the creation of commonplaces in our of linguistic and non-linguistic cognition. We must search for other Options — hospitable, dehierarchized, non-exploitative, disruptive, vulnerable, and powerful.