I was invited to create a event that celebrates the release of Moses Sumney’s 2017 LP, Aromanticism. I designed a hybrid record release, listening party, and installation that would bring together fresh flowers, careful listening, and the ideas that informed Moses’ amazing record.
Aromanticism as an idea, prizes friendship over romantic partners and pure experience over the society’s traditional narrative of romance. Moses’ research and reflection on the subject lead to the creation of his record, so in our installation, the quintessential romantic gesture is repurposed into a communal and experiential act: making arrangements of flowers for the sole purpose of satisfying the self.
photos by Hannah Brooks
