DJCS

DJCS is an artist and curator based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Their practice examines the conditions under which art is made, circulated, and consumed within an increasingly surveilled and reactionary cultural landscape. Through exhibitions, writing, and discursive projects, DJCS treats curatorial work as a form of resistance against institutional complacency and public moralism, insisting on exhibitions as sites where complexity, critique, and contradiction can coexist. They are the founder of COMMODE, a laboratory dedicated to experimental and politically urgent practices that challenge the collapse of art into content.  Since 2012, DJCS has held curatorial and directorial roles across public, commercial, and artist-run contexts throughout Aotearoa.

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