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Paradise Container

Staged across a sprawling set that mimics a deconstructed home, Paradise Container tells the story of a family shaped by addiction and financial enmeshment with a storage solutions company that contracts each of its members. Conceived and written by Monica Mirabile and Mara McKevitt, the newly commissioned performance takes place within the Main Hall of Pioneer Works—reimagined here as a cross between a soundstage and an American fulfillment warehouse.

Paradise Container guides the audience from room to room through light, sound, and performance cues. Charged domestic scenes collapse boundaries between the personal, domestic, and professional environments that define daily life. In this universe, an eroding nuclear family must meet the demands of a modern yet feudal work arrangement, navigate the oscillatory effects of a pharmaceutical drug called Shift, and learn how to live with and love each other. An intimate, performance-theater experience intended for only 80 audience members at a time, Paradise Container crafts a narrative meant to chafe at ideas of stability and disillusion, sickness and health, and the myth of work-life balance.

Composer and Sound Design: Aaron David Ross

PARADISE CONTAINER

by Monica Mirabile and Mara McKevitt
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all things under dog where two things become one

Performance Space New York, New York, US
Original music and Spatial Sound by Aaron David Ross

In all things under dog, where two things are always true, Monica Mirabile looks at the ‘mafia’ as an outlaw ecosystem rising from a lack of resources to cultivate a support structure. Working on a therapeutic level within this architecture, Mirabile builds out a collapsing of time from the combined personal histories of the performers and herself—working through questions of grief, trauma, support, and ultimately resilience in family systems and the society they are influenced by. all things under dog travels through symbolic representations of a house—with five distinct rooms dividing The Keith Haring Theatre—and a black hole. Heightening the intimacy of the work, the audience, viewing the piece in small groups, move through the rooms with the performance.

all things under dog where two things become one
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TOGETHER

For the Performa 19 Biennial, New York and Bangkok based artist Korakrit Arunanondchai, in collaboration with boychild, Bonaventure, Alex Gvojic, and Aaron David Ross, will present a performance in the form of an invented reality, collapsing oral storytelling and local mythologies into Thailand’s complex history with the American military, national policies and Buddhist kingship.

Based on Ghost Cinema, a post-Vietnam War ritual in Thailand where outdoor screenings function as communions between the audience and the spirits. Introduced by American soldiers stationed in Thailand who screened films in the forests, creating enigmatic projections which locals attributed to ghosts, the appropriation of the ritual by locals reflects the rich history of military coups and their effect on local folklore and rituals.
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FASHION PERFORMANCE SOUNDTRACK WORKS

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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BUFFER

By Xavier Cha
Opera, Dance & Theatre work commissioned by BAM2017
Next Wave Festival & Performa, 2017
Original Music by Aaron David Ross Xavier Cha's perception-altering new work lays bare the intimate yet alienated relationships we have with the bodies on our screens.

Music and sound design by Aaron David Ross
Libretto by Juliana Huxtable
Stage design by Paul Kopkau, Felix Burrichter, and Michael Bullock
Costume design by Avena Gallagher BUFFER
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RYAN TRECARTIN JAZZFEST

“There is nothing else in today’s art world even remotely like Ryan Trecartin‘s videos,” proclaimed Art in America. “It’s a sci-fi theater of the absurd for our manically paced YouTube era.“ Within these fluidly structured and visually commanding works, Trecartin’s groundbreaking sound design—a densely layered mix of rapid-fire dialogue, electronic music and live instrumentation—extends the depth, intensity, and insane hilarity of his art. He is joined by his principal collaborator Lizzie Fitch, music producer and DJ Ashland Mines (aka Total Freedom), and composer/producer Aaron David Ross (who will be conducting and doing the music direction) to present a new, digitally-inflected sonic composition live for the very first time.” – Armory Press Release JAZZFEST RYAN TRECARTIN
TOTAL FREEDOM
AARON DAVID ROSS Selected Press: Armory Listing | Art News NOVEMBER 2016, Presented by the Armory Artists' Studio, New York
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DISTRACTED PATH TOWARD EXTINCTION

Film by Korakrit Arunanondchai and Alex Gvojic featuring Boychild
Original Score by Aaron David Ross
Premiered at the 9th Annual Berlin Biennale, 2016
On a Boat sailing up and down the Spree River, Berlin There’s a word I’m trying to remember, for a feeling I’m about to have (a distracted path toward extinction)
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LOVE FOCUSED LIKE A LASER

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 LOVE FOCUSED LIKE A LASER A Hybrid Opera & Art Collective by Matthew Stone
 Featuring Matthew Stone, Shayne Oliver & Paul Cupo for Hood By Air, Kelela, Zebra Katz & Michele Lamy, boychild, Andre J, Madeline Hollanderm, AJ Gvojic,

Music by L-vis 1990, Aaron David Ross, Girl Unit, Helix, Matthew Stone, Massacooraman, Renato Dicent
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CENTER JENNY

ADR as “Bi-Jimmy” in Ryan Trecartin‘s Center Jenny
Premiered at the Venice Biennale, 2013

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DIGITAL FLESH

Sound provided for the Beijing edition of Radical Friend‘s Digital Flesh installation, via The Creators Project.
Collaboration with Matthew Arkell, Gatekeeper.

View the online version:
http://digitalflesh.thecreatorsproject.com/
More information available here.