DOXA (δόξα): A common belief, as opposed to knowledge, doxa is associated with community, dialogue and truth. DOXA is an international collective of artists, theorists, designers, architects, engineers, etc.
Re-imagining Culture: How to (and how not to) build a cultural economy

Re-imagining Culture: How to (and how not to) build a cultural economy

Re-imagining Culture: How to (and how not to) build a cultural economy’ is an edited transcript of our first event in May 2010 at A Foundation. The result is an enriching dialogue with speakers John Kieffer, William Wong and Sonya Dyer on the current state of the arts in the...
AMASS: Towards an Economy of the Commons

AMASS: Towards an Economy of the Commons

View images from the event on Flickr. Saturday, 16 April 2011 AMASS: TOWARDS AN ECONOMY OF THE COMMONS Saturday, 16 April 2011, 2:00-5:00pm Chisenhale 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ RSVP: mail@chisenhale.org.uk FB: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=163869593668098 “To speak of the commons as if it were a natural resource is misleading at best and...
Creative Space

Creative Space

The history of cultural production last century entails a struggle in between criticality and its appropriation by capitalism. As in the work of Theodor Adorno (1), the standardization of creativity, or in other name the commodification of arts propheted the rising of culture industry as one of the main driving...
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Film: Nønspace, Hong Kong, 2009

Film: Nønspace, Hong Kong, 2009

NønSpace is a work that attempts to probe at the often puzzling and elusive space of Hong Kong. Through its unique history, geography and politics, Hong Kong has sprouted from a small Chinese fishing village to a globalized financial city. From British influence of Western capitalism to a return to a long lost Chinese reality, Hong Kong has formed into a place of in-betweenness.

Interviews with Eva Weinmayr (AND Publishing) and Sion Whellens (Calverts)

Images and Audio from AMASS: Towards an Economy of the Commons

Case Studies [3]: Spaces of the Commons

The following article is an excerpt from an email exchange/conversation between Celine Condorelli, and the two founders of the Publicworkgroup.net Kathrin Bohm and Andreas Lang.

Case Studies [2]: Tactics for the Commons

An interview with Christian L. Frock@Invisible Venue on her works and relation to the Commons. The Invisible Venue is chosen to be one of the case studies of the AMASS workshop.

Case Studies [1]: Gift Economy and the Commons

An interview with Moray Bresnihan@ Mutantspace on gift economy and the commons, Mutantspace is chosen to be one of the case studies of the AMASS workshop.

Open Call for AMASS: Towards an Economy of the Commons

Videos from: How to (and not to) build a cultural economy…

Video from Re-imagining Culture: How to (and not to) build a cultural economy. Lessons learnt after the crash and 'What Now?' for artists, theorists and professionals working in art, culture and policy
Reclaiming Culture and Creativity from Industry and the UK 'Creative Economy'

Reclaiming Culture and Creativity from Industry and the UK ‘Creative Economy’

A paper exploring the shift of the artistic system in the 20th century to the 'creative industries' where art and cultural production becomes tied to the global financial economy.

Conference: The European Congress on Aesthetics, Madrid

11 Nov 2010

Paper: 'Re-claiming Culture from Industry and the UK Creative Economy: Towards New Configurations of the Artistic System'

Re-imagining Culture: London to Hong Kong via Sheffield, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong

14 October 2010

Open discussion with William Wong, Ashley Wong and Lee Chun-Fung at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong

Re-imagining Culture: Futures in Collective Working, Wieden & Kennedy, London

28 September 2010

Beyond economics, what are the possibilities in open source, crowd-sourcing and resource sharing for artists, organisations and industry? What new ways of working does digital technology offer for a renewed vision for culture?