


INSPIRATIONS
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Otobong Nkanga’s Cadence @ MoMA
multi-media installation, incorporates audio and visual
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5742
Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree @ Tate Modern
invites audience to make a wish, write it down on a tag, tie it to the tree
https://wishtreeforyokoono.com/en/
Marta Minujín’s La Menesunda @ Copenhagen Contemporary
invites participants individually on an immersive experience emulating the streets of Buenos Aires
https://copenhagencontemporary.org/en/marta-minujin/
What is freedom to you? Participatory installation
invites viewers to paint, to write, to reflect
https://www.instagram.com/copenhagen_contemporary/p/C7WLsImtGZ5/
Stranger’s Project @ JFK Airport
collection of handwritten, anonymous letters collecting what it is like to be that person, exploring the people we share spaces with
Sheila Ghelani’s Covet Me Care For Me
inviting participants to take part in a ritualistic form of destruction and gain
https://www.sheilaghelani.co.uk/covet-me-care-for-me
Zoltar Speaks
fortune-telling, card dispensing machine
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Sylvia Plath’s Fig Tree
Nora Ephron
Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger
‘A Bouquet of Fleeting Beauty, Please’ NYT Modern Love
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Linder
photomontages - using flowers
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/linder-danger-came-smiling/
Olivia Dean
Messy album, CD/vinyl design https://www.emilyhopea.com/olivia-dean-messy-album
Growth EP, album cover
Beuys
rose for direct democracy
social forest
Mehretu
stickers + layering
Kusama
dot stickers, in political contexts, Happenings, etc
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Marta Minujín
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/world-goes-pop/artist-biography/marta-minujin
Sharon Hayes
Emily Anderson
Linder
https://www.instagram.com/lindersterling/?hl=en
Darkfield
Happenings in 60s
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Flower Markets
Columbia Road
Deptford
New Covent Garden
Gallery Foyers
Tate Modern - Turbine Hall commissions
MoMA - Atrium commissions - Cadence
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BEGINNING MIDDLE END
PAST PRESENT FUTURE
in-between/shared/city SPACES
temporality/fleeting moments/impermanence
invisible strings/connection/conversation
flowers + their meanings
beauty & the beast rose
time being measured, in flowers
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QR Codes
scan for exhibition playlist/specific song
headphones alongside art
Olivia Dean
I Could Be A Florist
Time
John Lennon
Imagine
Beautiful Boy
Podcast
NYT Modern Love - 12th Feb 2025 - ‘How to Fall (and Stay) In Love’
Florists
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Marte Gulli
Oslo-based owner of Carousel
Creates installations, hosts artist residencies
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SAGE
Based in Peckham, South London
Focused on floristry as design, SAGE run workshops, provide lots of editorial clients with floral arrangements, and
‘the floating world’
referring to culture + lifestyle of Edo period Japan
detachment from bother + living in the moment