Critical Condition
Hana Pera Aoake, Elle Loui August, Heidi Brickell and Brooke Pou, Jess Clifford, Tom Denize, Cushla Donaldson, Sinag Fernandez, Becky Hemus, Emily Lyall, Manon, Lucy Reid, DJCS, Ryder Smith, Coco Solid, Bonni Tamati

Through an open call in May 2026, COMMODE commissioned a series of long-form essays addressing the conditions of contemporary art practice in Aotearoa. The writers were asked to consider how artists and arts workers might move beyond institutional anxiety, precarity and the political ambiguity that increasingly define the sector.

Critical Condition will be published in the last quarter of 2026.


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