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 the commons), which were turned into tools of exploitation. All of these spatial politics at the same time also create a new urbanism and aesthetics by adopting art, design, cultural apparatus, etc. The central question of this book is: when art and design are used as tool to transform the economy of the community hence also its social landscape, what could be the position of art and what kind of resistance one can imagine, if not one that is rapidly absorbed into the capitalistic realism? This book shows different experiments, ranging from Womenjia Autonomous Lab in China[1], the Amateur Revolt in Japan[2], Go Straight Café in Taiwan[3]to the occupation movement in Asia; it also reviews some of the historical legacies for example the situationist international. The present edition will be in Chinese, edited by Yuk Hui and DOXA, published by Roundtable Synergy Books(HK), it is estimated to be out around summer 2012. We are proud to announce the list of our contributors:
Jaspar Lau 劉建華 (Hong Kong, Art Critic, Wooferten)
Kang KIM金江 (Korea, Artist, Oasis)
Law Man Lok 羅文樂 (Hong Kong, Artist)
Mai Dian 麥巔 (China, Musician, Wu Han Youth Autonomous Lab)
Kao Jun Honn 高俊宏 (Taiwan, Artist)
Takuro Higuchi 樋口拓朗 (Japan, Independent Sociologist, Amateur Revolt)
Kenichiro Egami 江上賢一郎 (Japan, Activist, Photographer)
Yuk Hui 許煜 (Paris/Hong Kong, Philosopher, DOXA)
Tetsuo Ogawa 小川哲生 (Japan, Writer/activist, Miyashita Movement)
Nin Chan 陳寧(Montreal/ Hong Kong, Theorist, Occupy Hong Kong)
Ashley Wong 黃詠欣(London/Hong Kong, Co-founder, DOXA)
Nicolas Sauret (Paris/Hong Kong, Film Maker)
[1] Brian Holmes, Meetings at Womenjia Youth Autonomy LabIs Wuhan Really the Chicago of China?, 2011
[2] Textinnitiate, Interview with Matsumoto Hajime, 2011
[3] Brewing the Perfect Cup of Activism: An Interview, 2011
This publication project is kindly supported by OpenVizor
More information about DOXA’s Creative Project.