Creative Direction & Production by TRIADIC
Dover, Delaware U.S.A.
August 2024
Mondegreen, a four-day Phish festival held at The Woodlands in Dover, DE. TRIADIC collaborated with the cult American rock band Phish and AEG Presents to bring together a dozen large-scale, interactive installations, immersive site-specific commissions, and impromptu performances.
Projects included: a 70 foot viewing tower and late night DJ venue called “The Heliograph”; a surrealist speakeasy known as “The Cerealist Bowl” with strange occurrences, immersive theatre performances and a secret sake bar; Olivier Grossetête’s “City Hall”— an 82-feet community built structure made solely of cardboard-and-tape (fully demolished and recycled after); a planetarium video installation “Nova Heat” by artists Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe; “Museum Of The Moon” by Luke Jerram, a floating 21-foot replica of the Moon with lunar surface mapping from NASA; Lars Fisk’s Dodge Ball sculpture; Dutch artist Henk Hofstra’s giant egg installation “Eggcident”; Ling-Li Tseng’s “The Search of the Glow” interactive light sculpture; and Filthy Luker’s “Googly Eyes” suspended in trees.
Curation and Executive Production by TRIADIC
Mumbai, India
31st March, 2024 - 9th June, 2024
The Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre proudly presents Liminal Gaps, a contemporary Indian art exhibition exploring the transitional and expanding boundaries of Indian culture and identity. Curated by Mafalda Millies Kahane and Roya Sachs with executive production by Elizabeth Edelman Sachs from TRIADIC, Liminal Gaps is the centre’s first exhibition to exclusively showcase Indian artists. The artists included in the show are Raqs Media Collective, Afrah Shafiq, Ayesha Singh, and Asim Waqif.
Liminal Gaps is an Indian-artist focused group show that explores transitional spaces and transformational phases that are either physical, emotional or metaphorical. The exhibition is about thresholds, ultimately inviting audiences into new ways of looking at the familiar.
Sprawling across all four floors of the Art House – the Cultural Centre’s dedicated visual art space – a multigenerational group of artists explores liminal gaps in architecture, time, space, nature, and technology. The experience is immersive, engaging the visitor through site-specific installations, interactive sonic experiences and video games. music, yoga, and more.
Co-Founders, Art Direction, Curation, Strategy & Production by TRIADIC
Bentonville, Arkansas U.S.A.
September 2023
@format_festival
www.format-festival.com
FORMAT is an otherworldly, 3-day celebration converging some of the most influential minds in art, tech and music. The 2023 FORMAT Festival site was located in the heart of Bentonville! The Momentary is a contemporary art space for live music, visual and performing arts and much more.. Attendees were transported to the world of FORMAT through an all-inclusive experience that doesn’t follow the average festival composition, which aims to spark curiosity and build community through thoughtful artist curation and brand partnerships.
Two traditional stages anchored the festival alongside a series of unconventional settings, designed in collaboration with some of the most exciting visual artists and architects working today.
Committed to presenting international and local talent, leading institutional and early-career artists across all forms and mediums, FORMAT is a space for artistic risk and sensorial experience. Our vision is to offer a creative platform that combines the arts, engages the surrounding community, and awakens the senses.
Curation and Executive Production by TRIADIC
Mumbai, India
22nd July, 2023 - 22nd October, 2023
80,000 people attended this show over 80 days
The exhibition showcases the work of the renowned Italian creative studio and image-based magazine TOILETPAPER, founded by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari in 2010. The show at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai marks the duo's largest show to date and their debut in India.
TOILETPAPER: RUN AS SLOW AS YOU CAN presents a captivating, immersive display of Cattelan and Ferrari's ever-evolving, oversaturated, hyperreal universe, seamlessly blending commercial photography with a surrealist approach. Inspired by popular culture, the world of advertising, religious iconography and art history, TOILETPAPER investigates the current phenomenon of hyper-consumption of images, all with a delicious dose of irony.
Divided into four chapters, the exhibition challenges our existence and engagement in an increasingly virtual world, where we are constantly bombarded with visual stimuli. The duo uses photography, design and architecture as tools to bring into question the homes we inhabit, the objects we own, and the people that surround us.
Co-Founders, Art Direction, Curation, Strategy & Production by TRIADIC
Bentonville, Arkansas U.S.A.
September 2022
@format_festival
www.format-festival.com
FORMAT is an otherworldly, 3-day celebration converging some of the most influential minds in art, tech and music. Situated near the beautiful Ozark Mountains in Northwest Arkansas, this festival brings together live music, visual artists, performing arts and site-specific commissioned art. Attendees are transported to the world of FORMAT through an all-inclusive experience that doesn’t follow the average festival composition, which aims to spark curiosity and build community through thoughtful artist curation and brand partnerships.
The festival includes a traditional main & side stage, alongside several less conventional settings for artists to perform — ranging from hidden forest enclaves and open-air pavilions to converted barns. Underground discos and stages in the trees accompany world class installations and artist commissions.
Committed to presenting international and local talent, leading institutional and early-career artists across all forms and mediums, FORMAT is a space for artistic risk and sensorial experience. Our vision is to offer a creative platform that combines the arts, engages the surrounding community, and awakens the senses.
FORCE FOR FREEDOM 2023 Gala for The Anti-Slavery Collective
London, UK
Art Direction & Design by Mafalda Millies
Hardcover Book (2021)
Dimensions: 22 x 27cm
Pages: 256 pages
Release Date: June 2021
Curated by: Mafalda Millies & Roya Sachs
Edited by: Matthias Kliefoth, Mafalda Millies & Roya Sachs
Produced by: Lizzie Edelman
Published by: DISTANZ Verlag
What has been on artists’ and creatives’ minds during the Covid-19 pandemic and the waves of quarantine orders that have washed over the planet? That has been the question animating the initiative STILL HERE – Moments in Isolation. Since March 2020, co-curators and editors Roya Sachs and Mafalda Millies, alongside editor Matthias Kliefoth and producer Elizabeth Edelman, have invited prominent denizens in the worlds of art and culture to submit a still life image with an accompanying text, or thought, sharing their experience, along with the date and location now spanning across six continents.
The highlighting participants include artists such as: Monica Bonvicini, Tosh Basco fka Boychild, Katherine Bernhardt, Simon Denny, Marcel Dzama, Issy Wood, Shirin Neshat, Adam Pendleton, Laure Prouvost, Wolfgang Tillmans, Raphaela Vogel, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, alongside authors such as Chris Kraus, ballet dancer David Hallberg, neuroscientist Mendel Kaelen, auctioneer Simon de Pury and sexual anthropologist Betony Vernon.
This visual diary comes to life through video and music with Augmented Reality components that can be activated using the DISTANZ app. Alongside this, the publication includes an essay by novelist and art critic Jennifer Higgie, as well as a custom bookmark with a unique scent attached to it developed by renowned olfactory artist and smell researcher Sissel Tolaas.
TRIADIC will be donating 100% of their proceeds from the book to Performa, a New York City based multidisciplinary arts organization which is dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and encouraging new directions in art. DISTANZ will also be donating profits to Berlin Program for Artists, a mentoring program that facilitates exchange between emerging and established artists.
Curated by Roya Sachs
Lever House Art Collection
September - December 2018
Largest New York installation by neo-conceptualist artist Peter Halley (b.1953). The two-floored immersive installation included paintings, a tomb-like labyrinth with digitally-generated murals, and a block-long band of electric yellow windows.
Artistic Direction by Mafalda Millies & Roya Sachs
Mana Contemporary, New Jersey
November 2016
Virtually There is a performance inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet (1922). Collaborators included: choreography by iconic “punk ballerina” Karole Armitage; costumes by the renowned Brazilian designers the Campana Brothers; staging by Whitney Biennial artists Kate Gilmore and Heather Rowe; music by underground French composer Charles Derenne; and creative production by technology innovators MATTE Projects.
PARTNERS Mana Contemporary
Branding & Art Direction by Mafalda Millies
Animation by: Mike Kelly
Illustrations by: Chad Maupin
@format_festival
www.format-festival.com
Bentonville, Arkansas U.S.A.
A FESTIVAL FOR MUSIC, ART AND TECHNOLOGY
September 2022 - Ongoing
Produced by Lizzie Edelman
September 2013 - 2017
Global Citizen
New York, NY
Produced the 60,000 person annual music festival and live TV broadcast on the Great Lawn in New York City's Central Park. Leading acts included Beyonce, Coldplay, Stevie Wonder, Rihanna, The Foo Fighters, Jay Z, Alicia Keys, Pearl Jam, No Doubt, Metallica, John Legend, Ed Sheeran, and others.
www.globalcitizen.org
WOMAN ON THE VERGE \ VOGUE UK (2018)
Director Mafalda Millies
Featuring Sabine Getty
Choreographer Carine Charaire for "I could never be a dancer"
Stylist Jonathan Huguet
DOP Julien Andretti
Steadycam Rimi Kilikini
Set Design Annina Pfuel
Producer Ludovica Quaratesi
Music & Soundscape James William Blades
Edit Carolina Aguirre
Color Faith Millin
Make Up Anglomakeup for Sisley
Hair Hikage Yumiko for Sisley
Production Fury Paris
PARTNERS Schiaparelli, Chopard, Sisley, Lalique & Maxims de Paris
Branding & Art Direction by Mafalda Millies
Animation by: Mike Kelly
AI Art by: Neptunian Glitter Ball
@format_festival
www.format-festival.com
Bentonville, Arkansas U.S.A.
A FESTIVAL FOR MUSIC, ART AND TECHNOLOGY
September 2023
Curated by Roya Sachs
Lever House Art Collection, NYC
March - August 2018
what a day was this is a site specific installation by New York-based artist Adam Pendleton (b.1984). The Lever House commission established a spatial and conceptual dialogue with the transparency and reflection of the iconic modernist architecture. It included a layered selection executed in black silkscreen ink and spray paint together with a floor-to-ceiling piece. Pendleton grouped together works from his OK DADA OK BLACK DADA OK and System of Display series, along with over seventy individual paneled silkscreen ink on Mylar works.
Art Direction & Design by Mafalda Millies
Artistic Direction by Mafalda Millies & Roya Sachs
Mana Contemporary, New Jersey
November 2016
Virtually There is a performance inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet (1922). Collaborators included: choreography by iconic “punk ballerina” Karole Armitage; costumes by the renowned Brazilian designers the Campana Brothers; staging by Whitney Biennial artists Kate Gilmore and Heather Rowe; music by underground French composer Charles Derenne; and creative production by technology innovators MATTE Projects.
PARTNERS Mana Contemporary
Curated by Roya Sachs
LAMB Gallery, London, UK
September - October, 2021
SORRY IT’S A MESS, WE JUST MOVED IN!, was a group exhibition at LAMB Gallery in London that explored notions of transience, impermanence and identity in everyday objects.
The show included new & archival works by: assume vivid astro focus, Oliver Beer, Koos Buster, Patricia Camet, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Martin Creed, Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Clara Hastrup, Mona Hatoum, Michael Landy, Fernando Otero, Laurence Owen, Rolf Sachs, Camila Sposati, Haim Steinbach, Erwin Wurm, and Studio Zimoun.
Art Direction by Mafalda Millies
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Curated by Roya Sachs
Livestream Headquarters. Brooklyn, NY
11th May 2015
"VOID" is one night only performance combining art, music, dance, and technology. It explored the history of courtship and digital connection in contemporary society. It included a multi-user, three-dimensional interactive art installation by artist Jordan Backus, using an arrangement of translucent screens, computer generated images, and ultrasonic proximity sensors to respond directly and visually to the proximities and movements of its users. This was paired with choreography by Troy Schumacher, and New York City Ballet dancers Sean Suozzi and Claire Kretzschmar.
Art Direction & Design by Mafalda Millies
Art Direction & Design by Mafalda Millies
BETTER | WHAT-SO-NOT MUSIC VIDEO (2018)
Directed + Edited by: Mafalda Millies
Director of Photography (What-So-Not): Amelia Hazlerigg
Director of Photography (LPX): Maria Evangelista
Producer (What-So-Not): Minni Podevils
Producer (LPX): Eliza Soros
Gaffer (What-So-Not): Maarten Hokke
Gaffer (LPX): Ines Gowland
Hair & Make-up (What-So-Not): Michelle Dacillo c/o Vicky Izzard @ Caren
Make-Up (LPX): Anastasia Durasova
Hair (LPX): Takayoshi Tsukisawa
Creative Direction by Mafalda Millies for band MSMR
Stills by Robert Lindholm
Styling by Alexandra Cronan
Produced by Lizzie Edelman
Luxury Fashion Brand
Spring Place
New York, NY
February 2020
Produced an artificial intelligence summit for senior executives of a high end luxury fashion company to focus on the future of technology and how it will change and affect the consumer retail business. The day included interactive and immersive experiential activities, panel discussions, and live music events by via holograms.
Artistic Direction & Film by Mafalda Millies
Commissioned and produced by ALMA ZEVI
Revolving around sculptures by MARCANTONIO BRANDOLINI D’ADDA
Dancer MEGUMI EDA
Original Score by CHARLES DERENNE
Premiered at PALAZZO GRASSI during Venice Glass Week 2018
Description: A short film by Mafalda Millies which takes its inspiration from the mysterious glass sculptures by Venitian artist Marcantonio Brandolini d’Adda. The film was produced by ALMA ZEVI and shot in New York during the artist's solo exhibition organised by the gallery this Spring. Through the movement and choreography of the acclaimed dancer Megumi Eda to an original score composed by Charles Derenne (aka Paris 1982), we gain new perspectives on Brandolini d’Adda’s work.
MUSIC VIDEO: "TREMBLE"_LPX (2017)
FESTIVALS: Official Selection LA Music Video Awards (2017)
Director: Mafalda Millies
Produced by: Chemistry Creative and Starecase
Director of Photography: Frank Larson
Camera Operator: Doug Durant
Production Designer: Eliza Soros
Set Construction: Paul Freudenburg
Make-up: Anastasia Durasova
Hair Styling: Takayoshi Tsukisawa
Production Manager: Anne Verhallen
Production Assistant: Jasmine Noronha
Editor: Jojo King at Modern Post
Color: Tim Masick at Company 3
Curated by Roya Sachs
Bosi Contemporary Gallery, NYC
March - April 2015
Come to Bed! is a group exhibition featuring the works of three female artists, Michelle Jaffé, Marta Jovanović and Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos. It focused on three sectors of communication that bring to play the different usages of the bed, from pillow talk, and self reflection, to technology with our need to stay connected. The installation included a month-long durational performance “Pillow Talk” by artist Marta Jovanović, in which audience members were invited to get into bed with the artist, and have a one on one pillow talk with Jovanović for however long they choose. Alluding to the intimate secrecy that is shared during the act, after each pillow talk, she would write a word or sentence on her guests pillowcase, which they could then hang on the gallery walls. As the days passed, the walls got thicker and thicker, just as the weight of the information and secrets Jovanovic was told clouded her mind.
Artistic Direction and Curation by Mafalda Millies
The Highline, NYC, June 2017
On the night of the summer solstice 2017, artistic director Mafalda Millies and choreographer Nathan Mitchell presented The-Solar-Do-Nothing-Dance on New York’s High Line. The performance took place across a quarter-mile strip of the park, paying homage to one of the first devices to convert solar energy to electricity:Charles and Ray Eames’ Solar-Do-Nothing Machine (1957).
The-Solar-Do-Nothing-Dance was produced by Eliza Soros, with an original score by the French underground composer Charles Derenne, a live violin performance by Molly Fletcher and drums by Patrick Steward of the Scissor Sisters, amidst an immersive floral maze installation by the landscape designer Lily Kwong.
Directed & Co-produced by Roya Sachs
SIR Stage 37, NYC
November 2018
Annual Performa Gala honoring Christo, including 360 degree video projections of archival footage, immersive Soundoff headphone experience, and performances by Fumi Tanakadate and Sudan Archives.
Co-curated by Roya Sachs
Halston House, NYC
December 2014
The ArtList Christmas Carnival is a one night evening showcasing works, installations, and performances by Nobutaka Aozaki, The Bumby’s, Jen DeNike & Damien Echols, Sebastian Errazuriz, Robert Lazzarini (Grey Area), Arcangel Surfware, and Bazaar Teens.
The event took place at the historical Paul Rudolph townhouse in the Upper East Side, and focused around the concept of consumer culture during the holiday season. Each artist was invited to take over a different space in the house to develop on themes of commercialism, consumerism, and oversaturation. A carnival-like shopping mall, audience members were encouraged to bargain and buy products directly from the artists. It aimed to depict the “magic” of the season with its spirit and overpowering atmosphere, all whilst surfacing themes of self-reflection and the underlying false expectations of the season.
NOMAD'S TOWER \ NOMAD ART FAIR
Curation and Artistic Direction by Mafalda Millies
La Tuor Museum, Samedan, Switzerland, February 2018
Delving into the themes of ritual and spirituality, NOMAD’s Tower includes design objects from each NOMAD gallery serving as precious offerings to the Alpine spirits of the Engadine. Commissioned by NOMAD and curated by Mafalda Millies, this interactive offsite project invites visitors to experience the selected artworks in a historical and medieval landmark, contributing to the site-specific installation by leaving an object of their own behind.
The NOMAD Fair revisits the classic idea of fairs and exhibitions to innovate a new format for the XXI century. A travelling event for collectable design, nomad brings together a selection of the world’s leading galleries in incredible architectural locations. Nomad St. Moritz took place in February 2018 at Chesa Planta, the prestigious mansion in the heart of the Swiss Alps.
GALLERIES INCLUDED: Apalazzo Gallery; Almine Rech Gallery, Carwan Gallery, Casati gallery, David Gill Gallery, Demisch Danant, Etage Projects, Galerie BSL, Gallery Fumi, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Galleria Luisa Delle Piane, Maniera, Marlborough Contemporary, Massimo de Carlo, Nilufar, Priveekollektie, Huesden Aan de Mas, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, Skarstedt Gallery, Yves Macaux;
Curated by Roya Sachs
LAMB ARTS, London
June - July 2016
An Irregular Network of Passages is a multi-disciplinary exhibition including works by Camilla Emson (b.1985, UK), Tete de Alencar (b. 1964, Brazil), and G.T. Pellizzi (b.1978, Mexico). The exhibition explored the mental and physical pathways we traverse in routing our day-to-day lives, and the obstacles we encounter in doing so. The show, along with the labyrinth-referencing title, invited audiences to travel through the different rooms and channels of these artists’ works.
Direction and Artwork by Mafalda Millies
TREMBLE LRIC VIDEO | LPX (2017)
Video by Mafalda Millies
Curated by Roya Sachs
LAMB ARTS, London
November - December 2018
Long and Deep French Kiss is a site-specific solo show by assume vivid astro focus (avaf). The installation marked the final show at the gallery’s White Horse Street location before the building is demolished. An homage to Shepherd Market’s long standing history as the ‘red light district’ of Mayfair, and a critique on the rapidly shifting terrain of commercial real estate development in the area, the installation is a playful and interactive journey through 'eroticism under construction’.
The show invites viewers to meander, climb and comb their way through a series of confined maze-like tarp passages - a material most commonly found on construction sites. The tactile and shady nature of the darkened space transforms it into a sultry deconstructed ‘playhouse’, provoking uneasiness and disorientation, as well as amplifying the collective and inclusive experience of being inside an all encompassing three-dimensional artwork.
Produced by Lizzie Edelman
Global Citizen; United Palace Theatre
New York NY
2017
Produced a Mumford & Sons concert with Citi Sound Vault to support Global Citizen Week and Children in Conflict at the United Palace Theatre. Citi Sound Vault is a live music platform curated exclusively for Citi cardmembers to access music experiences across cities in the U.S.
Curated by Roya Sachs
Halston House, NYC
September 2014
What Did Freud Dream About? Is a one night only mixed-medium performance combining live opera, dance, and art. The intimate and unique evening was inspired by Freudian dreams and his theories about the Unconscious, a dialogue bringing together three different realms of art.
Renowned composer Doug Balliett composed a new melodic opera based around Freud's dream-based theories. Opera’s rising bass star Davone Tines sang, accompanied by the Philharmonic's Ashley Jackson on the harp. Alongside them, fifteen-year New York City Ballet dancer Sean Suozzi performed a unique dance. This coincided with a live art performance by abstract painter Chris Willcox.
Directed & Co-produced by Roya Sachs
Spring Place, NYC
November 2018
Inspired by the influx of information that defines the digital era, curator Roya Sachs, harpist Ashley Jackson and composer Danielle Eva Schwob present lNFOXICATION, a cross-disciplinary performance that probes the way in which technology has transformed our daily lives, with site specific choreography by Dusan Tynek.
Merging disciplines of live art, music, dance, and Google technology, each chapter deconstructs a basic element of modern life and explores the physicality of each experience in a relevant, contemporary context. WAKING subtly heaves audiences out of their slumber and into an information-saturated reality with solo cello and electronics. WORKING depicts our technology-driven routines in a sequential narrative with high energy repetition and movement - accompanied by renowned PUBLIQuartet and a score by Steve Reich. WANTING explores the detached nature of contemporary human connections through fast melody and motion - with music by the quartet and a world premiering composition by Danielle Schwob. Finally, WITHDRAWING shifts audiences into the organic corporeal world, accompanied by live body artist Heather Hansen and solo cello.
Curated by Roya Sachs
Lever House Art Collection, NYC
April - August 2018
CONCRETE JUNGLE JUNGLE LOVE is a site-specific installation by New York based artist Katherine Bernhardt (b. 1975). The explosively colorful exhibition playfully fused imagery and objects of modern culture with that of the tropics. The commission witnessed Bernhardt's first departure from canvas, pulling motifs out of her paintings and giving audiences a unique three-dimensional experience of her work. A combination of acrylic and spray paint canvases, dyed interactive soft sculptures, and a concrete block plant installation, the show's multi-medium elements served as a whimsical juxtaposition to the modernist architecture of the space.
Directed by Mafalda Millies
AWARDS
- Official Selection of UKMVA (2016)
- Official Selection Austin Music Video Festival (2016)
TIGHTROPE MUSIC VIDEO \ LPX
Directed by Mafalda Millies
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Director of Photography: Ryan Marie Helfant
Styling: Alexandra Cronan
Produced by: Chemistry Creative and Starecase
Make-up: Anastasia Durasova
Hair Styling: Kazu Katahira
Edit: Mafalda Millies
VFX: Nathan Towness Anderson
Color: Josh Bohoskey
Construction Manager: Chemistry Creative
Curated by Roya Sachs
Lever House Art Collection, NYC
April - August 2018
CONCRETE JUNGLE JUNGLE LOVE is a site-specific installation by New York based artist Katherine Bernhardt (b. 1975). The explosively colorful exhibition playfully fused imagery and objects of modern culture with that of the tropics. The commission witnessed Bernhardt's first departure from canvas, pulling motifs out of her paintings and giving audiences a unique three-dimensional experience of her work. A combination of acrylic and spray paint canvases, dyed interactive soft sculptures, and a concrete block plant installation, the show's multi-medium elements served as a whimsical juxtaposition to the modernist architecture of the space.
Curated by Roya Sachs
Parasol Projects, NYC
November 2014
[gone] Mexico is the first series and location of the [gone] Project, a month long travel excursion in which photographers Anastasia Fugger and Carolina Pimenta explored the complex and dynamic aspects of collaborating. The show endeavored to revisit the perspective of collaboration, dating back to the 1970s, with artists such as Fischli & Weiss and Bernd & Hilla Becher. The opening night also included an interactive live art performance by conceptual artist Jimena Montemayor, Jimojunk - in which audiences had to use torches to light up the performance.
PARTNERS Create Collect, Maserati
Strategic Advisory by Lizzie Edelman
Krewe du Kanaval
New Orleans, LA
2019
Supported with strategic guidance and the coordination of corporate partnerships for the annual hybrid Haitian & New Orleans philanthropic Carnival during Mardis Gras. Co-founded by Win Butler and Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire, and Preservation Hall’s Ben Jaffe, it is a celebration of culture, community and music, filled with a parade, costume ball and special events.
https://www.kanaval.org/
Directed by Mafalda Millies for SALONI F/W19
Featuring Marina Ontanya & Abby Wilson
Art Direction Annina Pfuel
Producer Minni Podewils
DOP Jack Exton
Edit Carolina Aguirre
Color Tom Mangham @ The Mill
Composer Leon Jean-Marie
Make Up Emma Miles
Hair Davide Barbieri
Video by Mafalda Millies
Collage Art by Mafalda Millies for band The Revivalist (2018)
Artistic Direction & Film by Mafalda Millies
Alma Zevi Gallery, NYC
April 2018
Live performance and art video surrounding the mysterious glass sculptures of Venitian artist Marcantonio Brandolini d’Adda. Produced by Alma Zevi, the piece included a performance and choreography of acclaimed dancer Megumi Eda (of Armitage Dance!) and an original, immersive score by French underground composer Charles Derenne (aka Paris 1982).
EARLY SPRING VIDEO (2020)
Video and graphics by Mafalda Millies
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees.
Early Spring, Rainer Maria Rilke
Curated by Roya Sachs
Livestream Headquarters. Brooklyn, NY
11th May 2015
"VOID" is one night only performance combining art, music, dance, and technology. It explored the history of courtship and digital connection in contemporary society. It included a multi-user, three-dimensional interactive art installation by artist Jordan Backus, using an arrangement of translucent screens, computer generated images, and ultrasonic proximity sensors to respond directly and visually to the proximities and movements of its users. This was paired with choreography by Troy Schumacher, and New York City Ballet dancers Sean Suozzi and Claire Kretzschmar.
Art Directed & Curated by Roya Sachs
Angel Orensanz Foundation, NYC
October 2015
Elephants Forever was a one night exhibition hosted by the Elephant Family and Space For Giants, aiming to protect the survival of elephants in Asia and Africa. Set in a rundown synagogue, the interactive installation invited audience members to meander through a lush jungle to discover and uncover the artwork.
Featured Artists: Abdulla Qandeel, Albert Oehlen, Ann Hamilton, Carl McCrow, Daniel Richter, David Yarrow, Domingo Zapata, Ernesto Neto, Fred Tomaselli, Julian Opie, Marc Quinn, Petroc Sesti, Ron Pruitt, Ronnie Wood, Santiago Montoya, Stuart McAlpine Miller, Tom Sachs, Tracey Emin, Urs Fischer, Walton Ford, Y.Z. Kami
PARTNERS Maclaren, Google, HAIG, Graff, Silkstone
Produced by Lizzie Edelman
Global Citizen
Mumbai, India
September 2016
Produced the 150,000 person music festival and live TV broadcast in the center of Mumbai. Leading acts included Jay Z, Coldplay, Demi Lovato, AR Rahman, and The Vamps.
Direction, Video Art and Edit by Mafalda Millies
Directed and Edited by Mafalda Millies
Artistic Direction and Curation by Mafalda Millies
The Highline, NYC, June 2017
On the night of the summer solstice 2017, artistic director Mafalda Millies and choreographer Nathan Mitchell presented The-Solar-Do-Nothing-Dance on New York’s High Line. The performance took place across a quarter-mile strip of the park, paying homage to one of the first devices to convert solar energy to electricity:Charles and Ray Eames’ Solar-Do-Nothing Machine (1957).
The-Solar-Do-Nothing-Dance was produced by Eliza Soros, with an original score by the French underground composer Charles Derenne, a live violin performance by Molly Fletcher and drums by Patrick Steward of the Scissor Sisters, amidst an immersive floral maze installation by the landscape designer Lily Kwong.
"MARINA ABRAMOVIC 70 "GOLDEN LIPS" x KREEMART (2016)
Directed and Edited by: Mafalda Millies
Videographer: Eduardo Alcivar
Curated by Roya Sachs
Lever House Art Collection, NYC
March - August 2018
what a day was this is a site specific installation by New York-based artist Adam Pendleton (b.1984). The Lever House commission established a spatial and conceptual dialogue with the transparency and reflection of the iconic modernist architecture. It included a layered selection executed in black silkscreen ink and spray paint together with a floor-to-ceiling piece. Pendleton grouped together works from his OK DADA OK BLACK DADA OK and System of Display series, along with over seventy individual paneled silkscreen ink on Mylar works.
VOGUE UK | WOMAN ON THE VERGE
Director Mafalda Millies
Featuring Sabine Getty
Choreographer Carine Charaire for "I could never be a dancer"
Stylist Jonathan Huguet
DOP Julien Andretti
Steadycam Rimi Kilikini
Art Direction Annina Pfuel
Producer Ludovica Quaratesi
Music & Soundscape James William Blades
Edit Carolina Aguirre
Color Faith Millin
Make Up Anglomakeup for Sisley
Hair Hikage Yumiko for Sisley
Production Fury Paris
PARTNERS Schiaparelli, Chopard, Sisley, Lalique & Maxims de Paris
Directed & Co-produced by Roya Sachs
Spring Place, NYC
November 2018
lNFOXICATION is a cross-disciplinary performance that probes the way in which technology has transformed our daily lives, with a world premiering site specific choreography by Dusan Tynek.
Merging disciplines of live art, music, dance, and Google technology, each chapter deconstructed a basic element of modern life and explored the physicality of each experience in a relevant, contemporary context. WAKING subtly heaved audiences out of their slumber and into an information-saturated reality with solo cello and electronics. WORKING depicted our technology-driven routines in a sequential narrative with high energy repetition and movement - accompanied by renowned PUBLIQuartet and a score by Steve Reich. WANTING explored the detached nature of contemporary human connections through fast melody and motion - with music by the quartet and a world premiering composition by Danielle Schwob. Finally, WITHDRAWING shifted audiences into the organic corporeal world, accompanied by live body artist Heather Hansen and solo cello.
PARTNERS Google, Spring Place
Strategic Advisory by Lizzie Edelman
Pioneer Works
New York NY
2018
Supported with strategic guidance and the coordination of corporate partnerships for Second Sundays at Pioneer Works which is a free event series every second Sunday of the month, that engages disciplines through live music, food, artists’ open studios, and interactive programs for the general public.
Curated by Roya Sachs
LAMB ARTS, London
November - December 2018
Long and Deep French Kiss is a site-specific solo show by assume vivid astro focus (avaf). The installation marked the final show at the gallery’s White Horse Street location before the building is demolished. An homage to Shepherd Market’s long standing history as the ‘red light district’ of Mayfair, and a critique on the rapidly shifting terrain of commercial real estate development in the area, the installation is a playful and interactive journey through 'eroticism under construction’.
The show invites viewers to meander, climb and comb their way through a series of confined maze-like tarp passages - a material most commonly found on construction sites. The tactile and shady nature of the darkened space transforms it into a sultry deconstructed ‘playhouse’, provoking uneasiness and disorientation, as well as amplifying the collective and inclusive experience of being inside an all encompassing three-dimensional artwork.
TRYNA BE \ ROMES (2015)
Creative and Art Direction: Mafalda Millies
Costume Design: Bettina Santo Domingo and Mafalda Millies
‘TIGHTROPE’ EP | LPX
Album Art + Creative Direction by Mafalda Millies
Curated by Roya Sachs
Halston House, NYC
September 2014
What Did Freud Dream About? Is a one night only mixed-medium performance combining live opera, dance, and art. The intimate and unique evening was inspired by Freudian dreams and his theories about the Unconscious, a dialogue bringing together three different realms of art.
Renowned composer Doug Balliett composed a new melodic opera based around Freud's dream-based theories. Opera’s rising bass star Davone Tines sang, accompanied by the Philharmonic's Ashley Jackson on the harp. Alongside them, fifteen-year New York City Ballet dancer Sean Suozzi performed a unique dance. This coincided with a live art performance by abstract painter Chris Willcox.
Co-curated by Roya Sachs
Halston House, NYC
December 2014
The ArtList Christmas Carnival is a one night evening showcasing works, installations, and performances by Nobutaka Aozaki, The Bumby’s, Jen DeNike & Damien Echols, Sebastian Errazuriz, Robert Lazzarini (Grey Area), Arcangel Surfware, and Bazaar Teens.
The event took place at the historical Paul Rudolph townhouse in the Upper East Side, and focused around the concept of consumer culture during the holiday season. Each artist was invited to take over a different space in the house to develop on themes of commercialism, consumerism, and oversaturation. A carnival-like shopping mall, audience members were encouraged to bargain and buy products directly from the artists. It aimed to depict the “magic” of the season with its spirit and overpowering atmosphere, all whilst surfacing themes of self-reflection and the underlying false expectations of the season.
MUSIC VIDEO: "TREMBLE"_LPX (2017)
FESTIVALS: Official Selection LA Music Video Awards (2017)
Director: Mafalda Millies
Produced by: Chemistry Creative and Starecase
Director of Photography: Frank Larson
Camera Operator: Doug Durant
Production Designer: Eliza Soros
Set Construction: Paul Freudenburg
Make-up: Anastasia Durasova
Hair Styling: Takayoshi Tsukisawa
Production Manager: Anne Verhallen
Production Assistant: Jasmine Noronha
Editor: Jojo King at Modern Post
Color: Tim Masick at Company 3
THE REVIVALISTS: ITS WAS A SIN (LYRIC VIDEO)
COLLAGES BY: MAFALDA MILLIES & RUBY KEAN
ANIMATED BY: WOODY TUCKER
Strategic Advisory from Lizzie Edelman
Krewe du Kanaval
New Orleans, LA
2019
Supported with strategic guidance and the coordination of corporate partnerships for the annual hybrid Haitian & New Orleans philanthropic Carnival during Mardis Gras. Co-founded by Win Butler and Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire, and Preservation Hall’s Ben Jaffe, it is a celebration of culture, community and music, filled with a parade, costume ball and special events.
Album Art design by Mafalda Millies (2017)
Stills by Eliza Sorros
Styling by Sophia Costima
MUSIC VIDEO: "WRONG VICTORY"_MSMR (2016)
FESTIVALS: Official Selection of UKMVA (2016)
Official Selection Austin Music Video Festival (2016)
Directed by: Mafalda Millies
Director of Photography: Frank Larson
Costume Design: Annina Pfuel
Stying: Alexandra Cronan
Make-up Art: Anastasia Durasova
Hair: Takayoshi Tsukisawa
Produced by Chemistry Creative & Starecase
Set Design by: Maggy O'Toole
Edited by: Derek Fearon for MATTE
Album Art, Graphic Design and Creative Direction of WELLES music launch \ by Mafalda Millies (2017)
Photos by Eliza Soros
Video Created by Mafalda Millies for LPX EP ‘Fog and the Fear’ (2018)
Creative Direction by Mafalda Millies for band MSMR
Stills by Robert Lindholm
Styling by Alexandra Cronan
