DIS (collective)

DIS is an art collective based in New York City. It was founded in 2010 by Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro, and publishes DIS Magazine, a twist on a lifestyle and fashion magazine that was additionally co-founded with Nick Scholl, Patrik Sandberg, and Samuel Adrian Massey, its editor and editors at large.

The collective was founded in 2010 by Solomon Chase, David Toro, and the married couple of Marco Roso and Lauren Boyle, web and advertising professionals with a common interest in fashion.[1] Its magazine, co-founded with Nick Scholl, the editor, and Patrik Sandberg and Samuel Adrian Massey, editors at large, and its website echo and parody "marketing messages, social networking, and digital fiction", leading to a questioning on the part of the viewer/consumer.[2] The magazine has "Distaste, Dystopia and Dysmorphia" sections;[1][3] in the words of one collaborator, DIS "bend[s] the concept of what a magazine is";[4] they themselves describe DIS Magazine as a "post-Internet lifestyle magazine about art, fashion and commerce".[1][5]

DIS Magazine has recommended "shoe layering": wearing multiple pairs of shoes at once.[1][3] In 2011 DIS held a Kim Kardashian look-alike contest at Art Basel Miami Beach.[1][4] In 2012 they received a commission from Frieze Art Fair; the curator, Sarah McCrory, said of their work: "They subvert the very language of fashion, art and advertising, right down to making ugly a compliment."[1] In 2013 they established a temporary stock photo studio and invited numerous artists and photographers to participate.[5][6] In 2014 they created a mock store called DISown at Red Bull Studios in New York; according to the press release, " 'DISown—Not for Everyone,' is an exhibition posing as a retail store. Or maybe it’s the other way around. As Karl Lagerfeld for H&M is a diffusion line for fashion, DISown is a diffusion line for art."[4][7][8] For the New Museum Digital Archive, they produced a series of lectures, the first being David Riley, "Interpreting the Scrunchie".[9]

DIS will curate the 9th Berlin Biennale.[6][10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Alex Hawgood, "Seriously Unserious About Fashion", The New York Times, November 16, 2012.
  2. ↑ Francesco Spampinato, Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2016, ISBN 9781616892685, p. 74.
  3. 1 2 Johannes Thumfart, "An den Rändern des Modesystems", Die Zeit, December 20, 2012 (German).
  4. 1 2 3 Fan Zhong, "Totally DISsed: A post-internet art collective is out to remake the world in its own distorted image", W, September 24, 2015.
  5. 1 2 Jessie Wender, "Art Stock: disimages.com", The New Yorker, February 12, 2013.
  6. 1 2 Andrew Russeth, "DIS will curate the 2016 Berlin Biennale, ARTnews, September 24, 2015.
  7. ↑ DISown Press release, February 18, 2014 (pdf).
  8. ↑ Emily Manning, "Retail Store or Art Exhibition? Inside DISown", Opening Ceremony, March 4, 2014.
  9. ↑ "DIS Magazine Presents: Interpreting the Scrunchie", New Museum Digital Archive, retrieved March 22, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Berlin Biennale: DIS im Interview. 'Die Stadt ist internationaler geworden'", Monopol, November 24, 2015 (German).

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