For this year’s Miami Swim Week, artist Haiiileen created two installations and a multimedia video piece showcasing Diesel’s Swim Week campaign within The Edition Hotel in Miami Beach. Diesel’s Campaign this year focused on a vaporwave vibe, aligning perfectly with Haiiileen’s past works and inspirations, making her the perfect artist to direct their Swim Week presentation.
In the Diesel suite, Haiiileen transformed the space into a neo-acid wonderland full of bright colors and lights, featuring a one of a kind light sculpture made of over 200 handcrafted acrylic tiles to create a chandelier. The room also had a video installation on display showing one of Haiiileen’s mylar installations.
Downstairs, Haiiileen transformed the entrance to Basement into one her multidimensional mylar installations.
Exploring the multidimensional layers of our atmosphere from the core of the earth to the outer surface and into the vast expanses of the galaxy, artist Haiiilleen utilizes six 48×32 size multimedia, multi-layer, acrylic panels to create her 2 part 3 panel series. Each panel forms a mirrored image of the other creating a large scale immersive environment where guests can experience it as a photo booth and journey through an abstract neo-tropical oasis transporting them through the creative evolution of life and the universe surrounding it.
Ora, inspired by The Spirit of Bjork, is the second edition in a series of sculptures created by Haiiileen using the same idea of handmade acrylic petals to formulate a crystalized sculpture piece symbolizing love, light, and transcendence through the use of light and color.
Artist Haiiileen uses custom LED lights, wires, and poles to play with mixed textures and manipulate a neon spectrum of light creating a reflection of silver mountain-like shapes made of mylar in a colorful neon lit installation, at Club Space, made to distort the senses.
60 individual fashion influenced collages on 29 in. x 45 in. acrylic panels taking over the entirety of a 1,200 sq/ft wall inside of MANA Wynwood accenting an abstract chandelier made from over 70 custom acrylic elements.
Inspired by Club Kids, a fashion subculture characterized in the underground NYC music scene in the late 80’s and inspired by how music influences the way we dress and ultimately the way we express ourselves. Haiiileen creates 60 abstract representations as a reflection of her life work in the realm of music, art, and fashion. Each encapsulates a memory from different stages of her life, the installation and individual pieces representing a collage of these moments. The full-scale view of the installation is a mirror, each panel reflecting the other and further embodying this reflective theme. When you first approach the piece you’ll encounter a sweeping arrangement of multi-colored lights ranging across a dynamic gradient of colors. As you walk closer to the installation your eye is drawn to the male guardians at the base of the installation. These represent foundations of strength and beauty. Your gaze will then find itself face to face with a portal door, guarded by two mannequins representing a king and queen, acting as guardians of light and protection as you transport yourself into the festival and reach another dimension at the Main Frame Stage.
An acrylic light chandelier with 120 custom hand shaped 2-inch thick acrylic light panels guiding thousands of people through the portal of III Point’s mainframe stage.
III Points Festival at Mana Wynwood October 6-9, 2016
III Points Festival at Mana Wynwood October 6-9, 2016
III Points Festival at Mana Wynwood October 6-9, 2016
Inspired by Vaporwave, a culture characterized by a nostalgic fascination of retro aesthetics, video games, technology and advertising, Sunset@Noon submerges festivalgoers into a state of alternate dimension. The installation takes over the entirety of a 6,000 square foot warehouse space at MANA, morphing into a multisensory experience of art, music, and fashion, each expressed in vintage, internet based aesthetics. At the pinnacle of the room will be an interactive fashion installation that mirrors the appearance of a real life shopping mall, complete with department stores, kiosks, and abstractions by local fashion brands ISHINE365, Style Mafia, and Algae. The multisensory mall installation fuses audio and visual dimension into reality through
a virtual shopping experience, echoed by experimental performances courtesy of local musicians Virgo, Uchi, Otto von Schirach, Rat Bastard and more. Attendees will stroll through time and space, as the vibration of psychedelic music pulsates, and one dimensional barriers slowly fade away. New forms of visual art will be showcased such as a transformation chamber “Make Up Salon,” where guests can peer through acrylic doors and catch a glimpse of behind the scenes hair and makeup artists transforming the performers. III Point’s artists will enter the chamber throughout the course of the festival, providing more of a high fashion look for their performance.
Aileen Quintana explores the realms of performance art, such as an experimental marbelizing act titled Interdimensional baths and more. Additional elements of the Sunset@Noon experience include a VHS store by Veronica Gessa, Dale Zine lounge and art from Strangeways, GG artwork, Jay Shogo, Natasha Tomchin, and an artist collective from Post Vision along with a hangglider painted by the esteemed artist, Brian Butler.
Videos
Creative Director / Artist: Haiiileen
Editor : Mayday Hensen
Featuring: Post Vision Artist
Promo video: Sunset@noon
Creative Director / Producer / Artist: Haiiileen
Video/Edits: Alex Marklow
Recap Video for Sunset@noon at III Point’s Music festival by artist and creative director, Aileen Quintana video produced by RBP studio and sound by Michael Montuori, “Goddess of Fortune.”
Neo-Odyssey, 2018
