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MIX 2014

MIX Queer Experimental Film Festival 2014

Environmental Design 

A Brooklyn warehouse was transformed into a giant Beehive Cathedral. Bejeweled honeycomb walls and kaleidoscope stained glass projections lead to a pollination themed performance lounge with a geodesic dome encrusted in giant handmade flowers. 

Media Design by Caitlin Rose Sweet

Detroit Institute of the Arts

Costume Installation and Performance 

Commissioned for Fash Bash 2013. Three models in jeweled masks and gowns perform delicate flag dance in the fountain steps on the DIA 

MIX 2012

Pepsi Japan

Costume Design 

37 costumes for a series of short films used for Pepsi Japan summer 2014 campaign including  television, print, out-of-home, and packaging. 

Gay Superheroes

Future Ritual 1

Interactive Installation and Durational Performance

Strange Loop Gallery NYC Jan 2014

A mint green monochromatic play space with costumes attached to the walls and ceilings inviting guests to wear their surroundings, creating an immersive mobile sculpture. In the middle of the gallery, a mint green sewing machine was stationed with a mic attached that distorted the sounds coming from the machine, creating abstract music. For 3 days, various pieces of mint green fabric were sewn into a long chain that was wrapped around the walls of the gallery and around every visitor, swallowing them up into the space.

MIX 2011

Environmental Design 

An old East Village theatre was transformed into the cosmic landscape of a fantasy alien planet. The space consisted of three parts. A space vortex lined with starlights on walls, floor, and ceilings multiplied by suspended trapezoidal mirrors, an alien jungle with neon, psychedelic flora, and a pink fleshy space cave with hanging stalactites and pink rock like cushions covering the floor.  

Gawker Media

Environmental Design 

Interactive installation for Gawker Media’s 2014 holiday party.  The space was made to look like a futuristic snow forest. The all white space featured an abstract tree sculpture with branches reaching in every direction. White fringe panels hang off the branches with projections of falling jewels in kaleidoscope patters. Later in the night the walls split and red balloons spill out piercing the all white space revealing a hidden red room. 

Media design by Caitlin Rose Sweet

Ward of Feral Horses

Film 2014

Costume and Set Design 

Written and directed by Orit Ben-Shitrit 

Commissioned by EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Art Center, NY)

MIX 2013

Spring/Summer

Pink Melon Joy

Costume and Set Design 

Cloud City, New York 2014 

Directed by Katherine Brook 

Nutcracker

Costume Design 

Knockdown Center, New York 2014

Directed by Joshua William Geld 

Choreographed by Katie Rose McLaughlin 

MIX 2010

Acting: The First 6 Lessons

Costume Design

New York University Experimental Theatre Wing 2013

Directed by Katherine Brook

Nordstrom

Installation 

New York 2010

Commissioned for the grand opening of Nordstrom, Union Square in collaboration with House of Diehl. 

Company of We

Art Direction. Styling

Spring/Summer 2010 Look book/brand editorial titled "We Believe".
These friends unite for a cultish and mystical experience.

Brooklyn Fireproof

Installation

New York, 2011

Atomic Circus

Costume Design

Montreal 2012

Warrior Fairy costumes for fantasy aerial circus performance.

Greenpeace Pop-up Restaurant

Environmental Design

New York 2013

Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior 2 was transformed into a floating forest made entirely out of recycled materials acting as the set for a pop-up restaurant aboard the ship to celebrate its maiden voyage.

 

Asher Levine

Costume Design

New York 2013
Capsule collection for Goldsmith’s Chelsea Men mannequin exhibition. 

Fashion

Gertrude Stein

Future Ritual 2

Pace University

Public Factor Soho Grand Hotel

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Detroit Institute of the Arts

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MIX 2012

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Pepsi Japan

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Gay Superheroes

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Future Ritual 1

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MIX 2011

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Gawker Media

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Ward of Feral Horses

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MIX 2013

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Spring/Summer

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Pink Melon Joy

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Nutcracker

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MIX 2010

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Acting: The First 6 Lessons

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Nordstrom

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Company of We

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Brooklyn Fireproof

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Atomic Circus

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Greenpeace Pop-up Restaurant

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Asher Levine

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Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein Saints!

Future Ritual 2

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Pace University

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Public Factor Soho Grand Hotel

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