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Guest Editor: Athena Thebus
Issue 39: OceansPublished September 2019
Kōtare (fka DJ Sezzo) is a proud Ngāpuhi woman, DJ, writer and curator. She is interested in what it is to be modern Māori and the magic of the club. In 2018, she created the experimental art club night Precog, and in 2019 founded the Māori-Australian art collective Ngāti Kangaru. Kōtare has played at Palais de Tokyo Galerie (Paris, Fr), Dark Mofo, MONA FOMA, Next Wave Festival, GoMA, Mardi Gras, MCA, IMA, Firstdraft, Falls Festival, and has supported the likes of Moor Mother & Black Quantum Futurism, Klein, Le1f, Cher, Coolio and Charli XCX. Kōtare lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne.