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felicita – marzipan (feat. Caroline Polachek)

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LUAR – CORPORATIVO

Runway original soundtrack by
Aaron David Ross + Gatekeeper
LUAR - CORPORATIVO FW 2018 In Raul Lopez’s Corporate America, Men Wear Skirts and Dresses to the Office"
- Vogue
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GROUND ZERO

Projected onto a large transparent screen bisecting the Schinkel Pavillon, the film Being Human (2019) forms a three-dimensional hypertext for a collection of original paintings and sculptures by some of Sri Lanka’s foremost contemporary artists, purchased from one of the capital Colombo’s most influential commercial galleries and presented by Thomas and Kuhlmann as a show-within-a-show. Shot in Sri Lanka, their film traverses documentary and fiction. It features Thomas’ uncle (a family hero who founded the Centre for Human Rights in Tamil Eelam), a well-known painter, a famous pop star and a young Tamil artist—some of them algorithmically synthesized characters—who take the viewer on an elliptical journey around the island, from the fallout of the Sri Lankan Civil War to the biennale founded in its aftermath. Exploring the interrelationship between contemporary art and human rights in an era of technological acceleration, Ground Zero reflects upon issues of individual authenticity, collective sovereignty and what it means to be "human" when machines are able to simulate human understanding ever more convincingly.

"GROUND ZERO"

by Christopher Kulendran Thomas + Annika Kuhlmann
Original Music and Sound Design by Aaron David Ross

at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

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Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones – God

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James Ferraro – Four Pieces For Mirai

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SOPHIE — OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES

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Mechatok – Flee

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AG Cook – Hollywood Ambient Mix

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Shygirl – Gush

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Oneothrix Point Never – Black Snow

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Howie Lee – Natural Disaster

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Oklou – The Rite of May

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YOU WASTED A GOOD CRISIS

YOU WASTED A GOOD CRISIS

A Good Crisis features the Night King from HBO’s Game of Thrones discussing the missed opportunity for economic revolution following the mid-2000s global financial crisis. He explains how financiers and CEOs now revel in the feudal frenzy of the “new rentership society,” a term propagated by private equity firms to explain the economic shift that has seen the renter population of the United States soar in the aftermath of the 2008 housing crash.

Created by DIS
Score by Aaron David Ross
Directors of Photography Alex Gvojic and Rory Muhlere
Edited by Anthony Valdez
SFX Supervisor Zanzie Addington-White
SFX Makeup April Townes
Featuring Brett Benowitz, and Jason Kappus

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Debit – Animus

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8ULENTINA – EUCALYPTUS

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oklou – Friendless

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TELFAR – NUDE

TELFAR Installation & Performance, Spazio Maiocchi Milan, 2018. Presented by Kaleidoscope "NUDE" Launching his eponymous line in 2005 at the age of 18, Liberian-American unisex prodigy Telfar Clemens has developed a strikingly original and democratic design vocabulary. Laying the blueprint for today’s black avant-garde, TELFAR was genderless a decade before it became a trend, launching projects with a remarkably horizontal cultural impact—from collaborations with Solange Knowles at the Guggenheim Museum to designing the nationwide uniforms for over 10,000 employees of the US fast-food chain White Castle. After winning the 2017 Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund, TELFAR is poised to take its place in the foreground of America’s fashion future.

At Spazio Maiocchi, KALEIDOSCOPE presents TELFAR’s first project in Italy, Nude, a fashion presentation without a single garment, eloquent to the brand’s progressive aesthetics and artistic DNA. The exhibition centers around a 30-feet-tall nude image of the designer by photographer Rob Kulisek surrounded by ten nude and genderless sculptures designed by American artist Frank Benson and manufactured by German state-of-the-art mannequin factory Penther Formes—an updated version of the iconic mannequins presented by TELFAR in the 2016 Berlin Biennale. The show is completed by a short film about Telfar’s apartment building in Queens, New York, by filmmaker Finn MacTaggart; and a musical composition written for clapping by Aaron David Ross in collaboration with artist Ryan Trecartin.

TELFAR’s exhibition will also take over the 3x6m billboard in the courtyard of Spazio Maiocchi, and will be accompanied by a book of images by New York photographer Jason Nocito, a performance by South-African musical duo FAKA, and an exclusive limited-edition T-shirt.
Soundtracked by Aaron David Ross & Ryan Trecartin in collaboration with Telfar & Babak Radboy, featuring FAKA
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Jam City – Earthly Mixtape