‘It is not what you see that is important but what takes place between people.' - Rirkrit Tiravanija
The Art of Hosting Is The Highest Form of Art, Glassell Gallery, 2026
Two nights of open-invite social gatherings hosted in the gallery space, limited to ten guests to keep the gatherings intimate. Potluck-style dinners centered around a beautifully set table with a locally grown bouquet by @mistandmallow. Guests were invited to dress as their favorite flora or fauna. Live flute music by Estella Vu greeted guests on their way in.
The gatherings offered a temporary space to step outside of ordinary social rituals: smartphones were placed in a box upon arrival, guests held hands and prayed together, and I recited a manifesto before the meal. After dinner, I gave guests readings from my Earth Magic oracle deck.
These gatherings transform the labor of care and hosting, often dismissed as “women’s work” into a site of radical hospitality and resistance to individualist culture and the loneliness epidemic. Each gathering becomes a living artwork: an ephemeral collective experience built through the unique energies and conversation of the evening. I pay close attention to aesthetic and sensory detail: foraging bouquets, lighting candles, cooking food you can smell, decorating with attention to color palette and theme. Focusing on sensual detail slows us down and brings people into our shared present moment. In the spirit of Dionysus, we feast and drink to celebrate pleasure, relationality, being alive, and the mysteries of the universe.
The title of these performances, "Hosting is the Highest Form of Art", references Tom Marioni’s famous series of performances from the 1970’s titled "The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art," a social art piece where the artist had people over to his San Francisco studio to drink beer every week for 45 years. I see both his and my own work as challenging the boundaries of traditional art-making by using everyday life as the medium.
Under the embrace of Mother Oak, Baton Rouge, LA 2026
Apart of an ongoing series of social art gatherings that celebrate platonic love and community bonds. Many of these gatherings coincide with culturally or seasonally significant times of the wheel of the year, like the Ostara or Samhain.
Samhain, Baton Rouge, LA 2025, San Francisco, CA 2021 & 2022
Manifestations of Luv, annual, 2017-present
Taking place in the same month as Valentine's Day, this event serves as a more radical version of the popular 'Galentine's day'. We indulge, feast, study feminist theory, practice vulnerability, loving-kindness, feminist consciousness-raising, and being in sacred circle.
In a culture that centers romantic love, transactional relations, and the couple form, we celebrate platonic love, community and friendship.
The Last MMM IRL gathering (open mic style), Helen's Backyard, 2021
click to watch a documentary film made about Mystic Moon Mamas by A. Cluessa
Moon Dance, 1 hour duration, 2020
During COVID's social distancing era, I invited people to meet on zoom during a full moon to dance together.
Cum Clean, 2018
A cleansing ritual where I collected stories of abuse, wrote them on a wall and then asked members of the audience personally affected by abuse to help me destroy them by scrubbing them away.
MMM gathering, 2018
Mystic Moon Mamas was a feminist collective that gathered in Tallahassee, Florida from 2017-2021.
