PAUL WEINER PAUL WEINER

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.

Case File 01
Prospective Athlete Reported Deceased (Bohdan Popova)
Year: 2022
Status: Circulated / Published / Archived
Reach: Major news outlets, print newspapers, television, sports news, repost networks
Selected documentation

Released into circulation without stable attribution, the work accumulates credibility as it is repeated, reformatted, published, printed, and cited across news platforms. The afterlife of the martyr becomes inseparable from the mechanisms that authenticate it.

Case File 02
Circulated Research File: Varginha Entity
Year: 2023
Status: Circulated / Archived
Reach: Large conspiracy accounts, cross-platform dissemination, repost networks
Selected documentation

The work enters public discourse as a legible event rather than an exhibited object. Meaning is produced not by the image alone, but by the scale of the alien entity's circulation in online conspiracy pipelines.

Case File 03
Quotations Attributed to a Source
Year: Ongoing
Status: Published / Archived
Reach: Major news outlets
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.

Case File 04
Reported Combatant: Kharkiv Killer
Year: 2022
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.