Ownership and culture

Even in an era when images have become omnipresent, art practices continue to carry out critique of a kind that is invaluable to our comprehension of our social and political condition. Amongst the most significant issues art and cultural production more generally draw attention to, are the operations of ownership and property, especially in connection to culture. Property continues to name a limit and blockage in our current social configuration. How, why and what are the consequences of property today? And how might we retreat from property through the articulation of a new social commons?