ΛΞ♢N† : TITAN ARUM
current Project
The installation presents a carnivalesque garden housing imagined ‘exotic’, medicinal and dangerous species.
ΛΞ♢N† : TITAN ARUM is a communal garden where one plant might join with another or where one species might care for another. The hanging fruits and carnivorous plants echo the pageantry of the Panangbenga Festival in the Philippines, while at the same time produce an alternative world that revels in the possibilities of a queering diasporic community.
In this installation, Shoulder inhabits plant forms and animates them through dance, light and sound before disappearing into ‘nature’. Each inhabitation is marked by seasonal change, creating a distinct four-part cycle in which the garden morphs and grows.
ΛΞ♢N† : TITAN ARUM premiered as part of The National (2021) at the Art Gallery of NSW. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Photography by: AGNSW, Felicity Jenkins
Performance History
- 2022
- 2021
Australia
The National - Art Gallery of NSW →
Australia
OzAsia - Nexus Arts, Adelaide →
Australia
Media
“AEON†: TITAN ARUM is a camp celebration of floral splendour, and a very queer reimagining of the botanical order. It encourages us to consider alternative worlds, and to celebrate the truly weird and wondrous one we already inhabit.”
“The improbable and the marvellous”