flourishing the night, 2025 –
Featuring costumes the corpse lily, waste mountain and plantspeak.
performance commission for royal botanic gardens kew x london college of fashion.
FLOURISHING THE NIGHT WAS A SERIES OF 13 PERFORMANCES AT ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW, REIMAGINING OUR EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE THROUGH TIME:
REPRESENTING THE PAST, THE CORPSE LILY CHANNELLED THE PARASITIC RAFFLESIA FLOWER TO MIRROR EXTRACTIVE PATTERNS IN HUMAN HISTORY. SYMOBLISING THE PRESENT, WASTE MOUNTAIN CONFRONTED THE GLOBAL WASTE CRISIS, CHALLENGING THE ILLUSION OF HUMAN SEPARATION FROM NATURE. SERVING AS THE FUTURE, PLANTSPEAK IMAGINED NEW INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATION THROUGH BOTANICAL FORMS.
PERFORMANCE AND COSTUME DESIGN | JESSIE CURRY
CO-CHOREOGRAPHY | JESSIE CURRY, ZARA SANDS, AND AARON BAKSH
PERFORMERS | ZARA SANDS AND AARON BAKSH
PHOTOGRAPHY | LUCHO DAVILIA
LOCATION | LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
live performance | costume | dance | movement design
video interview, 2025 –
STEP INSIDE THE WORLD OF JESSIE VON CURRY, A VISIONARY ARTIST FEATURED AT MATERIAL WORLD, KEW GARDENS. IN THIS SHORT ART DOCUMENTARY, JESSIE WALKS US THROUGH HER EXHIBITED PIECES, REVEALING HOW THEY WERE CREATED FROM CONCEPT TO INSTALLATION. WE THEN FOLLOW JESSIE BEHIND THE SCENES AS SHE PREPARES FOR A LIVE PERFORMANCE, CULMINATING IN A MESMERIZING FINAL ACT THAT BRINGS THE EXHIBITION TO LIFE IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE. THIS FILM CAPTURES THE PROCESS, PASSION, AND PERFORMANCE THAT DEFINE JESSIE'S UNIQUE ARTISTIC VOICE. WATCH TO THE END FOR THE FULL LIVE PERFORMANCE AND ARTISTIC FLOURISH THAT CLOSES THE NIGHT.
VIDEO DIRECTED & EDITED BY: ARTIST ACTUALITY