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Common Survival is a multi-format publication, meaning its contents are untethered and diverse in material. Common Survival exists as an 11 x 17 x 5 inch traveling exhibition in a box 鈥�33 projects made to migrate. This publication is a collection of a variety of survival tactics, taking form as printed booklets of text, zines, screenprints and photographs, sculptural objects, poems, video or audio recordings on media devices, or other hybridized modes of research display.

Some contributors look towards the future, imagining biotech evolutions that will allow for greater independence from regimes of control, or propose a multispecies transgenic hybridity that will mutually benefit us and other organisms. Some share tactics rooted in the past: ancestral indigenous knowledge spreading beneath settler colonialism. Others present projects rooted in the deepest present; social rituals meant to be acted out in unison by people that encounter this collection of work.

The 33 selected works are the result of an international open call and the final selection includes people in varying stages of their careers, spanning 7 countries. In an effort to democratize the production and reception of artistic research, there are 6 copies of Common Survival, and none are available for sale, rather they exist like library books, available to be loaned to any interested party. Each publication is housed in a unique case customized by an artist. The UV printed, plexiglass publication housing present in this exhibition at Vox Populi was designed by Philadelphia-based artists Allyson Church and Greta Skagerlind.