Faux AiR

Holly Childs responds to her time in the Chrysalisseum AiR with the design of a fake-Nike themed body of work, examining the nature of authenticity and knock-off merchandising and its associations with sporting and rave culture.


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FAUX AiR MAX 2011
Nike LeBrons on South St Philadelphia $40
Bamboozled in 2011 on 1997 Foamposites
Ryder Ripps in green #foamposites
Shrine to shoes lost, Nike Air punctured
Getting the swoosh just right (Just Do It)
JUMPMAN + everything in the right place
A colorway that either has- or will- come out #havefaith
Crazy whole other trip over in @Europe
(says the kid selling hats on the corner Degraves + Flinders Lane)
How much would it cost me for you to agree to get:
'Just Do It' tattooed on your chest
Just before your Graduation/Formal/DebBall? Or the big rave
Would you let me shave a tick into your dog's fur? For $10?
Yr friend has Nike pills or Adidas trips (the old logo), which will you take?
If Nike + Eros sitting in a tree
Would all wars have turned empty?
Q. + tell me why would my Retro 6s squeak when I bounce?
A. Because I got them from a guy named 'Shady' from off an internet street corner NYC
Not "Stunting"
Just "Hoodwinked"

METAVERSE MAKEOVERS_ 1st REVEAL @ FUR + The Chrysalisseum

Applying, revealing, and reflecting the infinite. A make-over evolution.

METAVERSE MAKEOVERS is a series of live performance installations integrating the latest in live-video processing and augmented reality enhanced projections. Three works will be presented site-specifically in the hyper-colour environments of beauty salons, saunas, and nail parlours across 2011.

3d Filmed and cinematographic assets undertaken across the physical site-specific venues feeds into the development of an online game, and downloadable AR couture line.

METAVERSE MAKEOVERS places contemporary perspectives on beauty, the art of maquillage, and mediated forms of embodiment under a seductive lens.


FUR:
Performer/ Choreographic Auteur: Brooke Amity-Stamp
Dancers: Lilian Grace Steiner, Rebecca Jensen, Emily Ranford, Annabelle Balhary, Sarah Aiken, Natalie Abbott
Artist/ Stylist: Alice Lang
Hair: FUR / Nina Ratsfaphong
Augmented Reality Make-up Artist/ ARCCTV technician: Ben Ferns aka Rare Sense (Tokyo)
Sound design /Programmer/ Games design: Katharine Neil (Paris / Australia)
Filmmaker : Adele Wilkes

HOTHOUSE CLUB:
Club concept colour tracks: Vogue
Culinary Director: Good Evening
Cocktail Alchemy: Brendan Harwood / New Gold Mountain
Landscape Design: Julia Mardjuki

Photography: Andrew Mac
Design: Republic of Synesthesia (New York/ Australia)

Production Manager: Bindi Green

Producer : Willoh S. Weiland
Producer/Director / Transmedia Experience Design: Thea Baumann / The Chrysalisseum

METAVERSE MAKEOVERS _FUR from metaverse-makeovers on Vimeo.

PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION

First Reveal Showreel_ FUR and The Chrysalisseum from metaverse-makeovers on Vimeo.

Photographer: Bobbie Lou on Flickr