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.
After Occupy: Art, Gentrification and Civil War

After Occupy: Art, Gentrification and Civil War

後佔領﹕藝術、士紳化、內戰 After Occupy: Art, Gentrification and Civil War 為期兩天關於藝術/文化工業以及士紳化的工作坊及討論 Two days of talks and workshops on the art/culture industry and gentrification 日期﹕一月二十五至二十六日 Dates: 25-26 January 2014 Venue/地點﹕A Space,亞洲藝術文獻庫/ Asia Art Archive 香港上環荷里活道233號十樓 10/F Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Limited capacity! RSVP: info (at) doxacollective (dot) org Participants:...
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. The edited volume consists of contributions from artists and theorists of different parts of Asia(Japan,Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc), and investigates the strategies to resist the intensive gentrification and the privatization of land (and...
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...
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Publication: From Art of Occupation to Occupation of Art (Greek)

Publication: From Art of Occupation to Occupation of Art (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, Please find the article here: Occupy Central: Ο Yuk Hui γράφει για τον απόηχο του κινήματος στο Χονγκ Κονγκ
Publication: All that is solid melts into air...(Chinese)

Publication: All that is solid melts into air…(Chinese)

DOXA has recently published an article in the Chinese Literary Bi-Monthly, Chutzpah!《天南》 edited by Ou Ning “All That is Solid Melts into Air”, by Yuk Hui/DOXA, No. 6, Chutzpah!, edited by Ou Ning, 2012 Abstract: This article started with the mediation of fire in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s “Par le Feu”, and the metaphysical and symbolic...
Publication: From Art of Occupation to Occupation of Art (Chinese)

Publication: From Art of Occupation to Occupation of Art (Chinese)

DOXA has recently published a text in Chinese called: “From Art of Occupation to Occupation of Art — On Occupation in Hong Kong and the Situationists International”, by Yuk Hui/DOXA, Issue 001, Independent Critics, Beijing, 2012, ISSN1003-9341 Download the text in Chinese here: From Art to Occupation to Occupation of Art (English translation of the text coming soon..)...
Film: Nønspace, Hong Kong, 2009

Film: Nønspace, Hong Kong, 2009

“The apparently permanent can be temporary, while the temporary could be very permanent.” – Ackbar Abbas ‘NønSpace’ 2-channel installation dir. Nicolas Sauret & Ashley Wong 23min, 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...

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

Eva Weinmayr is an artist, lecturer and co-director of AND, a new platform for experimental publishing. AND’s current activities include the Piracy Book Project producing new collections for the Byam Shaw Library. Recent and upcoming exhibitions by Weinmayr include The Cult of The Difficult 2011; The Institute of Mental Health Is Burning Newport Museum and...

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

Chisenhale Gallery 16 April 2011 Images from our last event are now up on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61884352@N02/sets/72157626553118748/ Listen to the audio from the three panels here: The Amateurist Network panel with Eva Weinmayr and Sion Whellens …ment panel with Anthony Iles and the University of Strategic Optimism DOXA panel with case studies of Mutant Space, Public...

Case Studies [3]: Spaces of the Commons

Public Workgroup www.publicworksgroup.net The debate about ‘Commons’ seems to be growing by the day. It is a term that is close to what we do and how we think. This text is an attempt to look in more detail at our own commons, at what we have in common as colleagues and friends. The reason...

Case Studies [2]: Tactics for the Commons

Invisible Venue http://invisiblevenue.com/ Christian L. Frock@Invisible Venue | Yuk Hui@DOXA (The following conversation was conducted through emails in preparation for the AMASS workshop) YH: What was your motivation of organizing the invisible venue? Your emphasize the term ‘alternative’ many times in your writings, what is that ‘alternative’ you want to develop? CF: I created Invisible...

Case Studies [1]: Gift Economy and the Commons

Mutantspace www.mutantspace.ie Moray Bresnihan@ Mutantspace | Yuk Hui@DOXA YH: Can you explain to us what does mutantspace do? MB: What mutantspace does is give people free support in the production of their arts event and projects. We dont differentiate between the artist or non artist, professional or amateur, we just want people to play, create, make,...

Open Call for AMASS: Towards an Economy of the Commons

To speak of the commons as if it were a natural resource is misleading at best and dangerous at worst—the commons is an activity and, if anything, it expresses relationships in society that are inseparable from relations to nature. It might be better to keep the word as a verb, an activity,rather than as a...

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

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’

‘Reclaiming Culture and Creativity from Industry and the UK ‘Creative Economy’:Towards New Configurations of the Artistic System’ This paper was written for and presented at the European Congress on Aesthetics at the National Anthropology Museum, 11 November 2010 and explores the shift of the artistic system in the 20th century to the ‘creative industries’ where...