DonChristian Jones
The Politics of Mourning IV
Ticketed Performance
Laurel Hill East
This performance by DonChristian Jones is connected to A Body in Laurel Hill by Eiko Otake.
Please note that a ticket to either one of these performances includes admission to the other which will take place during the same time period and place. Total run time for both pieces is 90 minutes.
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The Politics of Mourning IV - A continuation of site specific interventions on the subject of grief, POM first began in 2017 on the shores of Sicily, and trespassed temple ruins of Calabria. This iteration will be a return to home, Philadelphia, and a cemetery steeped in familial history for the artist.
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DonChristian Jones is a postdisciplinary artist and social sculptor whose practice blurs the boundaries between visual art, music, performance, and social intervention. Working across media and modes, his work engages architecture, community, and futurity—often emerging from spaces shaped by surveillance, abandonment, or resistance.
Raised in Philadelphia and based in New York, DonChristian’s early years painting inside Rikers Island and other carceral institutions ground his work in both aesthetic experimentation and civic urgency. His installations, soundworks, and performances have appeared at The Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, The Shed, New Museum, and Brooklyn Museum, among others.
In 2020, he founded Public Assistants Inc.—a radical mutual aid network and community design studio that reimagines urban space as a site of liberation, care, and creative infrastructure.