Sum Seen

Images still and in motion. [email protected]

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AERA promo 2015 from Sum Seen on Vimeo.

AERA is an aerial dance company based out of Brooklyn, New York. AERA aims to expand the performance environment by creating a unique shared experience with our audience. As an aerial dance company, AERA combines original choreography and custom designed three-dimensional structures that utilize mediums such as fabric, pole, and hoop in addition to other technologies to create a multifaceted experience of performance art. AERA’s goal is to create experiential art through aerial dance. aeradance.org/

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I First Saw You Music: Big Star "Kangaroo" August 29, 2014 (USA) Featuring: Allison Wardwell Director: Kyle McBeth Hair and Make up: Kate Alley, http://www.katealleymakeup.com/ Production: Sum Seen, http://sumseen.com/

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Sum Body Speak #5 January 25, 2014 (USA) Photographer: Kyle McBeth, http://sumseen.com/ Featuring: Pole Speak Makeup and Hair: Kate Alley, http://www.katealleymakeup.com/ Wardrobe: bodybinds, http://bodybinds.com/ To purchase 16” x 24” print contact: [email protected]

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Sum Body Speak #4 January 25, 2014 (USA)

Photographer: Kyle McBeth, http://sumseen.com/ Featuring: Pole Speak Makeup and Hair: Kate Alley, http://www.katealleymakeup.com/ Wardrobe: bodybinds, http://bodybinds.com/

To purchase 16” x 24” print contact: [email protected]

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Sum Body Speak #2 January 25, 2014 (USA)

Photographer: Kyle McBeth, http://sumseen.com/ Featuring: Pole Speak Makeup and Hair: Kate Alley, http://www.katealleymakeup.com/ Wardrobe: bodybinds, http://bodybinds.com/

To purchase 16" x 24" print contact: [email protected]

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Sum Body Speak #1 January 25, 2014 (USA)

Photographer: Kyle McBeth, http://sumseen.com/ Featuring: Pole Speak Makeup and Hair: Kate Alley, http://www.katealleymakeup.com/ Wardrobe: bodybinds, http://bodybinds.com/

To purchase 16" x 24" print contact: [email protected]

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Last week of the Sum Body Speak exhibit at Body & Pole. Go view them while you still can and email, [email protected], to purchase.

This series is a collaboration between Kyle McBeth of Sum Seen, the clothing company bodybinds and the dance company Pole Speak. The project coincided with Pole Speak's debut performance. Inspired by Hans Bellmer, a surrealist from the 1930's, and his project "The Doll". Photographs of a custom built mannequin placed in various poses, "The Doll" is rooted in the sublimation of desire and how that can affect the senses. In Bellmer's theory this sublimation could make a hand act as an eye, an arm a leg and the base of the neck the pelvis. This idea of seeing the form as parts and ones that could be interchangeable sparked the initial concept for "Sum Body Speak". The choice to use bodybinds as a main part of the wardrobe was a natural progression. The bodybinds create a conflict by both dissecting and containing the body in a way that can be clean and at the same time a distortion. In order to capture the images needed to create this series, the members of Pole Speak were asked to pose in in a variety of positions shot from different angles. These images were then manipulated and composited in post production, so that in any one final photo there may be elements from up to eight individuals. "Sum Body Speak" takes this idea of the sublimation of the senses and transfers it to the sublimation of the individual in a group. The photo retouching techniques that are currently so prevalent were used in an intentionally obvious way to create a tension by viewing something familiar yet unsettling.

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you don't owe them anything Music: James Blake - "I Never Learnt to Share (Sun Hammer Remix)" April 19, 2014 (USA) Featuring: Jess Linick and Tatiana Depilllo Director: Kyle McBeth Choreographer: Kyra Johannesen Makeup and Hair: Kate Alley, http://www.katealleymakeup.com/ Production: Sum Seen, http://sumseen.com/

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My first photo exhibit is up at Body & Pole , 115 west 27 street, NYC. It will be on view till May, go check it out. Thank you to Pole Speak, bodybinds and Kate Alley Makeup for working with me on this project.

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Not sure what to call this project yet. The working title is hotel sex.

Video coming out in the spring.

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balloon deflated #sumseen (at Cinema World Studios)

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Don't Hold the Wall video out now #justintimberlake #dontholdthewall #holdthewall #sumseen #sumherd #bodyandpole (at Body & Pole)

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Don't Hold the Wall out now http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=fATOyCqIq_U&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DfATOyCqIq_U%26feature%3Dyoutu.be #justintimberlake #holdthewall #dontholdthewall #sumseen #bodyandpole (at Body & Pole)

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Don't Hold the Wall Music: Justin Timberlake - "Don't Hold the Wall (Sum Herd edit)" December 11, 2013 (USA) Featuring: Jillian Urrutia Director: Kyle McBeth Makeup: Kate Alley, http://www.katealleymakeup.com/ Production: Sum Seen, http://sumseen.com/

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Hold the Wall video coming out this week. #justintimberlake #holdthewall #sumseen #bodyandpole (at Body & Pole)

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Don't hold the wall. New video featuring Jillian Urritia coming out soon. #justintimberlake #holdthewall #sumseen #bodyandpole (at Body & Pole)

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They're lame and you know it now