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With backgrounds in planning for iconic Japanese fashion brand Comme des Garçons and archiving for the art industry, Tokyo-based consulting office Kleinstein run by Yusuke and Miki Koishi are real-deal intellectuals with a drive and aim to bring art, fashion and performance to the forefront of cultural consciousness. Kleinstein and Koishi, which both mean “small stone” in German and Japanese respectively, are paradigm shifters and cultural disruptors who thrive on doing things their own way.
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Semantic satiation is the psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener.
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Continue ReadingFrom the back of the stage, a single searchlight points in the direction of the audience, and as it does, it sweeps across the forms of seven dancers in Stephanie Lake’s “Seven Days.”
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