HOAX is an ongoing curatorial project dedicated to giving an online, print and IRL platform to work that exists at the intersection of art and creative writing. HOAX provides a freely-accessible public home to bold, new creative work that incorporates text, its model acting as a hybrid of an exhibition, a publishing space, a commissioning programme, and an ever-expanding survey and archive.
An artist-run, not-for-profit initiative, HOAX was started in 2011 to examine the evolving use of text in the arts, and to be a positive, collaborative and emancipatory presence in an increasingly exploitative and reactionary art world. New digital work is presented weekly through its online platform, print issues are produced twice a year, and events and exhibitions take place sporadically. To date, HOAX has presented original works by over 200 international artists and writers.