ABSTRACT
The concept of the heterocosmoi is more suited to the context of the contemporary museum. It can be used to connect the existence of the commons — whether it is through the identification of collective intelligence or the organization of social and natural wealth — with the resistance to capitalism's effort to monetize, the state's regulative tendencies, and the communitarian's aim to territorialize the commons. The concept of heterocosmoi is adopted to address both the general process of instituting new imaginaries in everyday life, and the particular way artists make worlds, not necessarily from within their own idiosyncratic world "but in the world between them and the spectator". Heterocosmoi is only possible if the agency of the spectator is raised from passive viewer to an active participant, who not only selects from the binary options of matrix culture but also claims the opportunity for collaboration in the production of a third space.
