"COMMONS IN PUBLIC" Exhibition Ticket Design

Curated by Dr. Elodie Marceau (Paris) and Andreas Fellner (Vienna), the show explores:

Ownership and authorship in the post-digital commons

The gaze and ethics of observation

Behavioral feedback in exhibition design

How the public domain reflects collective unconscious

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

Lorenzstraße 19, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany

The Commons in Motion is a groundbreaking participatory exhibition that blends public domain artwork with real-time behavioral interaction. Visitors become both viewers and viewed as they move through a sequence of fluid, shifting gallery environments that reinterpret the idea of “public domain” as both legal territory and psychological space.

The exhibition stages a dialogue between classical public domain artworks (digitally manipulated or physically reproduced) and dynamic behavioral environments that respond to visitor movement, sound, and proximity. Surveillance aesthetics, open-source remix culture, and concepts of communal memory converge in a hybrid space where art is no longer static but activated by presence.