PEACE CORE
A video work of infinite duration that continually auto-edits American television footage first broadcast in the moments before the world-changing events of September 11, 2001. Originally presented as part of Kulendran Thomas’s recent exhibition at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, and realized together with his longtime collaborator Annika Kuhlmann.
Christopher Kulendran Thomas & Annika Khulmann
New on view (October 2025)
Gagosian,Park & 75
Multichannel Video, Sound, Infinite Duration
Original Music and Sound Design
by Aaron David Ross, Algorithmic Composition
On the notorious border of El Paso, Texas and Cd. Juárez, Mexico, an off-road culture thrives in the untamed dunes of the Chihuahuan desert. Red Sands is about the singular identity of an intergenerational community and the scene they’ve created in a desert known for its red hues. The Mexican-American population finds solace through off-roading, using the desert dunes as a canvas to imprint their unique identities. The film follows characters from the past and present reflecting on their journey while headlines of danger loom overhead, threatening the very space in which their identity is rooted. Red Sands pulls the viewer into an exhilarating never-before-seen world, highlighting the resilience and beauty in a place mostly unknown to outsiders.
Directed by Romina Censori
Original Soundtrack by Aaron David Ross
BEING HUMAN
Christopher Kulendran Thomas's 𝘉𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 considers the rise of Sri Lankan contemporary art in the wake of the country’s decades-long civil war, which ended with a massacre of Tamil civilians in 2009. The installation brings together Kulendran Thomas’s own works with artworks he purchased from galleries in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo.
Christopher Kulendran Thomas & Annika Khulmann
New on view (2025-2027)
MoMA New York, Floor 2, 213
High-definition video (color, sound; 24 min.) projected on glass, with three paintings and three sculptures
Original Music and Sound Design
by Aaron David Ross
Luar SS25 “El Boca Quedó” · Rockefeller Center Plaza · Original Music by Gatekeeper
New York-bred designer Raul Lopez has become one of the most sought-after names in fashion; season after season, fashion-exumed editors hungrily await their invitations to the Luar show, which is often one of the last on the CFDA calendar. And it never disappoints. Lopez has a natural talent for putting on a show.
The collection’s title, En Boca Quedó, a Dominican phrase signifying a lingering presence even after departure, was fitting. If there’s anyone everybody’s talking about, it’s Raul. Held at Rockefeller center with a star-studded front row, including Madonna and Ice Spice seated together, Amanda Lepore, Paloma Elsesser, and Parris Goebel, among others, Raul debuted 53 looks that left their mark long after the final look had left the runway.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 15: A model walks the runway at the Luar fashion show during New York Fashion Week February 2023 at Faurschou Foundation in Brooklyn on February 15, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Hippolyte Petit/FilmMagic)
THE MAW OF by Rachel Rossin (*1987, US) is a transmedia story — a narrative unfolding across multiple platforms and formats about the coming together of flesh, machine, cognition, and code provoked by current research into brain-computer interfaces.
Music and sound design by Aaron David Ross featuring music by Debussy
all things under dog where two things become one
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.
Performance Space New York, New York, US
Original music and Multichannel Sound Installation by Aaron David Ross
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.
No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5
Opening with the myth of spirits summoning projectionists to initiate an outdoor film projection, artist Korakrit Arunanondchai's dynamic film is charged with the idea of community – among humans and non-humans – in Thailand’s contemporary moment of instability. Boys trapped in a cave trigger a reflection on the geopolitics of the region and the fragility of its history.
The recurring central character, a fictional Thai painter, is depicted in situations that reflect the interaction between traditional beliefs, the natural environment, and developments in the technology, politics, and culture of a changing Thailand. The sculptural installation presented in the Central Pavilion is a series of ‘post-natural’ tree-like forms, while the Arsenale hosts a three-screen installation made with Alex Gvojic (1984, USA).
Film & Installation by Korakrit Arunanondchai & Alex Gvojic
Music & Sound Design by Aaron David Ross
Featured in the 2019 Venice Biennale
natural gods
This is a nature show about the least natural thing of all: god.
By Korakrit Arunanondchai
Music by Aaron David Ross
for Dis.art
Permanent collection
de Young Museum
San Francisco
DIS.ART
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GENRE NON CONFORMING
The DIS Edutainment Network
Presented by the New York-based collective DIS, Genre-Nonconforming: The DIS Edutainment Network, (“The DIS Network”) is the first exhibition coinciding with the launch of dis.art, a new streaming platform for entertainment and education. The DIS Network reveals a “DIS-topian” take on the future of education—decentralized and open-access, yet communal and physically connected, inviting visitors to experience a twisted hybrid of entertainment and education. Played on a continuous loop on 36 large LED screens in the de Young’s atrium, the work is the result of collaboration with a group of international theorists, writers, and artists including Korakrit Arunanondchai, Darren Bader, Will Benedict and Steffen Jørgensen, CUSS Group, Aria Dean, Casey Jane Ellison, Ilana Harris-Babou, Ada O’Higgins, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Daniel Keller, Ian Isiah, Chus Martinez, Babak Radboy, Christopher Kulendran Thomas in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, Ryan Trecartin, Amalia Ulman, McKenzie Wark, and Women’s History Museum with Jack Scanlan. Many of the videos feature music and sound design created by Dis-affiliated composer Aaron David Ross.
Dis.art exhibition at the DeYoung Art Museum in San Fransisco, CA.
Developed in relative secrecy over the past five years, CULTURESPORT is an animated science fiction web series set inside a sprawling fictional universe—the result of intensive and ongoing collaboration between artists, designers, musicians, actors, dancers, brands, and CULTURESPORT’s in-house creative team.
Music & sound design by Aaron David Ross, Joe Kubler, Jake Merrick, Javier Morales & Rotterdam Terror Corps
Arranged, Mixed & Mastered by Aaron David Ross
CULTURESPORT
ROTTERDAM 1995
"GROUND ZERO"
Original Soundtrack and Sound Design by Aaron David Ross
10 years ago, in the summer of 2009, the Tamil homeland of ‘Eelam’ was wiped out by the Sri Lankan army. Born through a neo-Marxist revolution, it had been self-governed as an autonomous state for almost 30 years. However, following attacks on the United States on September 11th 2001, revolutionary movements around the world were re-labelled as terrorists, enabling their eradication. As the international community turned a blind eye, Eelam was annihilated. Curiously, in the months following that violence (and with the economic liberalisation that followed), the first white cube commercial galleries opened in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, projecting democratic values internationally and representing a generation of artists influenced by the Western canon encountered online.
“Around the world, the juridical framework of human rights has been leveraged not only to protect the oppressed and disenfranchised but also to justify the imperial ambitions of the nation states by which human rights are enforced. Perhaps though, the problem is not with the concept of human rights but with the very category of ‘human’ itself.”
Christopher Kulendran Thomas in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann at Schinkel Pavillon Berlin
Audio & Video samples available on request
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
Written in collaboration with Moritz Schularick and Drew Zeiba
Directors of Photography Alex Gvojic and Rory Muhlere
Edited by Anthony Valdez
Score by Aaron David Ross
Collected by New Museum New York and Baltimore Museum of Art
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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