AIDS-3D

Daniel Keller
Lazy Ocean Drift
at New Galerie, Paris
Opening October 24th


IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE…. Labor, consumption, marketing, leisure and protest have all been hybridized, automated, outsourced and offshored into something both ubiquitous and unrecognizable. We still need a mass market to consume products and inspire entrepreneurs, but we don't expect much else. 90% of late 20th century jobs haven't existed for 50 years and humanity itself has become 'nonessential' for the continued maintenance and growth of the global economy.  

Formerly safe, high skilled professionals like lawyers and radiologists were the first to lose their jobs to the botnets. 
Much of the field of journalism has merged into automatically generated motion graphic holotagcloud visualizations of trending humanitarian crises. Participating in the Developmenture Creategies Economy means sipping on a spirulina smoothie from the promenade deck Pinkberry while interpassively selecting the most pointed mashup portmanteau on a splash resistant tablet, sending it to the cloud to be 3d printed from reclaimed Great Pacific Garbage Patch plastic and calling it an early day. This style of Prosumarkritique is about as productive and rebellious as the postcreative classes can afford to be.

The polar ice caps melted and sea levels rose dramatically as predicted. Of course, this was seen as more of an opportunity than a tragedy; a new frontier that was literally expanding! The technology to profitably colonize the oceans had been extensively developed, but after the sudden and unexpected collapse of vertebrate sea life, only a handful of Californian billionaire playboys, neozionist cults, militant genderqueer anarchocapitalists and a cosmopolitan assortment of poisonous jellyfish still seem to want to live there. 

None the less, these seasteaders did manage to force the governance services market open to private competition with a proliferation of subscription based quasi-sovereign multinational corporate offshore platforms, a few autonomous-zone Seapunk islets and other newly engineered legal-spatial anomalies. The basic legal distinctions between person, corporation, anchored ship and sovereign nation-state were finally erased.  

Some of the first comers to the new oceanic frontier made fortunes hosting darkweb data havens and corporate team-building retreats, producing gonzo pornography and exporting plankton based fuel and eye creams. But ultimately, this long heralded Cambrian Explosion in Governance did little to help the degrading standards of living for the landlocked majority who couldn't afford the best class SeatizenXperience subscripts nor AlgoLawyerswarms overwhelmingly litigious enough to ensure the acquisition of a family-size exit visa from the  raffle. 
Either way, these days you'd have to be crazy to live out on one of those things — considering all the jellyfish.

Daniel Keller-Lazy Ocean Drift Promo v1

All credits to 𝘌𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘯, the original author of the track

Elysia Crampton · 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 (𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿𝗮)

Elysia Crampton (E+E) - Fire Gut

in a river

Elysia Crampton - Elysian Dream / Reina (2011)

Elysia Crampton - Elysian Dream [2011]

Elysia Crampton - Reina [2008]

Used 2b Dust (feat. Ian Bruner)

I seen em runnin laps with the cats, with the kittens
Found her in the back of the club just sniffin
4 hour drive all night, goin missin
I could never show respect I could never listen
I could never get it back, I just had to get in
Eyes on the exit but im losing all my vision
Hes a magician, turned himself into a victim
Girl dont listen to my voice, im just kiddin

Laying on my back yea im always lookin up
Seen his face turn when she ask about my cup
Yea somethings up
Puttin 10 in his tank he cant even fill it up
Tell the cops i wont open my trunk
Caught him out just pickin up his lunch
Ive been moving on a limb, on a hunch
Its not enough

I seen him runnin laps with the cats, with the kittens
Found her in the back of the club just sniffin
4 hour drive all night, goin missin
I could never show respect I could never listen
I could never get it back, I just had to get in
Eyes on the exit but im losing all my vision
Hes a magician, turned himself into a victim
Girl dont listen to my voice, im just kiddin

Kittens

If u rly love me then youll hold on to my mash ...

Why my paigons got no cash

RIP I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

"...one of the best, most powerful songs... 
ever written about self-preservation... and dignity. 
It's universal message crosses all boundaries... 
and instills one with the hope that it's not too late to better ourselves. 
it's impossible in this world we live in to empathize with others, 
we can always empathize with ourselves. It's an important message. Crucial, really. 
And it's beautifully stated on the album."

Whitney Houston Dirge (Live at Times Feb 11 2012)

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Soundtrack for Miraj (aids-3d's educational dance troupe) performance, Chicago 2006

Whitney Houston Dirge (Live at Times Feb 11 2012)

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