DOXA (δόξα): A common belief, as opposed to truth, doxa is associated with community, dialogue and knowledge. 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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Digital Futures in Policy and the Cultural Sector in the UK

Digital Futures in Policy and the Cultural Sector in the UK

The global economic crisis has had a widespread impact across the cultural sector in Europe and the UK in the past 5 years. We are now witnessing the rise and fall of the ‘Creative Economy’ which has emerged in the past 15 years through neoliberal policies. New hope to revive the economy is envisioned in the ‘Digital Economy’, where policies intend to place digital innovation at the heart of economic growth. In order to participate in the digital economy, arts organizations are pushed to become ‘digital organizations’. There is a need to re-think the entire cultural and economic system today in the face of a global economic crisis. Despite depreciating funding for the arts, new possibilities can be found in ideas and practices of digital culture and the digital arts.
From Living to Individuation

From Living to Individuation

From Living to Individuation – reflection on a negative anthropology by Yuk Hui [to appear on the catalogue of the "Living as Form" nomadic exhibition (Hong Kong stop) Nov 3-18, 2012] Why should one subsume living to a form? To pose this question is not to remove form from living, but to question the very notion of form itself. Today politics is becoming bio-political – meaning the productivity of capitalism penetrates more and more into our livings, not simply by buying off our physical force, or make us to buy commodities as Marx analysed in Das Kapital, but controlling our tastes, gestures, habits, genetic information, etc – living can no longer retreat to its own term. If here living as form is to identify such a resistance or vital force in an affective manner, I would rather like to follow Gilbert Simondon and call it individuation. The problem of form doesn't lie on form per se but its attachment to hylomorphism since the ancient Greeks, notably in the philosophy of Aristotle.
Hong Kong: The Property Regime

Hong Kong: The Property Regime

For Critical Cities Vol. 3, DOXA contributes an article featuring an interview with Professor Tang Wing Shing from the Department of Geography at Baptist University in Hong Kong. The text looks at the concept of space and property in a global financial centre that is quickly developing its creative industries.
Economies of the Commons

Economies of the Commons

DOXA was published in Reviews in Cultural Theory an online journal published by the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada. This article followed a residency at The Banff Centre 'On the Commons' residency along with guests Pedro Reyes, Lauren Berlant and Michael Hardt.
Objects of Art After Industrialization

Objects of Art After Industrialization

This drafted essay by Yuk HUI is made as intervention to DOXA's event in 'ArtHK2012' : Art and Spatial Resistance: Emergent strategies in Asia.

From Art of Occupation to Occupation of Art (Part 1) in Greek

The article of Yuk HUI/DOXA on Occupy Central in Hong Kong, in related to the local economic and artistic milieu was honorly translated into Greek, the first part has been published on the online journal OUGH: http://www.ough.gr/
Creative Space—Art and Spatial Resistance in Asia

Creative Space—Art and Spatial Resistance in Asia

DOXA is pleased to announce its publication project 'Creative Space—Art and Spatial Resistance in Asia' and the list of our contributors. The edited volume consists of contributions from artists and theorists of different parts of Asia, and investigates the strategies and experiments to resist the intensive gentrification and the privatization of land, ranging from the autonomous lab in China, the amateur riot in Japan, the occupation in Hong Kong, etc. The present edition will be in Chinese, edited by Yuk Hui + DOXA, it is estimated to be out around summer.
All that is solid melts into air

All that is solid melts into air

New publication: "All That is Solid Melts into Air", by Yuk Hui/DOXA, No. 6, Chutzpah!, edited by Ou Ning, 2012
From Art of Occupation to Occupation of Art

From Art of Occupation to Occupation of Art

New Publications: From Art of Occupation to Occupation of Art -- On Occupation in Hong Kong and the Situationist International, by Yuk Hui/DOXA, in Independent Critics《獨立評論》, Issue 01, Beijing, 2012
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