Common Knowledge
Common Knowledge is an ongoing body of work that produces fabricated narratives within real information systems. Images, texts, and events are constructed and released into the public domain where they detach from authorship and reappear as fact. The series examines how consensus forms through repetition, scale, and institutional uptake.
Status: Circulated / Published / Archived
Reach: 100+ online news outlets, major print newspapers, television, sports news, repost networks
Selected documentation
The story of a war martyr's death is released into circulation without attribution. The work accumulates credibility as it is repeated, reformatted, published, printed, and cited across news platforms. The afterlife of the fabricated martyr becomes inseparable from the mechanisms that authenticate and promote it.
Status: Circulated / Archived
Reach: Large conspiracy accounts, cross-platform dissemination, repost networks
Selected documentation
Released across multiple channels with varying degrees of visibility, these images of aliens demonstrate how belief is conditioned by context. High-exposure posts invite scrutiny while low-visibility insertions evade verification and persist through ambiguity. As attribution disappears, the image becomes a receptive surface with meaning produced through circulation, projection, and reuse.
Status: Published / Archived
Reach: Major news outlets (BBC, NBC News, The New York Times, Forbes et al.)
Selected documentation
The artist is repeatedly quoted across unrelated contexts in mainstream news outlets where attribution confers authority. Credibility accumulates through quotation as statements are accepted as truth or expert opinion.
Status: Circulated / Published / Archived
Reach: Cross-platform dissemination, propaganda repost networks
Selected documentation
The work enters public discourse as a piece of war propaganda centered around a heroic figure. Meaning is produced not by the image alone, but by the scale and velocity of its circulation.
Selected source material, publication records, and extended circulation archives are available upon request.