DIS

(Project Native Informant, London, Tuesday to 2 April)

New York-based online collective DIS are among a growing breed of practitioners, often found in today’s cooler galleries, who prove that the definition of “an artist” is becoming increasingly fluid. Now consisting of four members, with a changing cast of collaborators from the worlds of fashion, music and art, DIS started as an online magazine (with issues published under the themes of “labor” and “tweenage”), went on to produce installations and video works, shapeshifted into a stock image library, and morphed into fashion design and retail. This year they’ll take on another guise as curators of the Berlin Biennale. Uniting these activities is an eye for the corporate sublime, the dreary perfection of fashion and the neoliberal co-option of the alternative. For this show they continue blurring commercial and art photography, a theme carried over from an advertising campaign conceived for MoMA, New York.