“What causes flowers not to bloom?”

Taking cues from the language of architecture, and the traditions of opera, HYDRANGEA sets its scene amongst an increasingly automated, complex, and intelligent web of global infrastructural systems, a framework steadily enveloping even the most isolated zones. As each new technology introduces its unique accidents, a number of informational, social, and environmental catastrophes occur, strange in kind and uncanny in scale, such as the Cambridge Analytica Data Breaches, enacted through a banal-seeming online quiz.

HYDRANGEA is a myth about myths. HYDRANGEA employs major global happenings to (explore) the roots of contemporary cosmologies, the primal scenes of shared reality. HYDRANGEA plays with the political institution of the story, its impact on shared social existence, and the contested field of its production, using the historical weight of global media events to reflect on the nature and dynamics of the emergence of stories. To explore the process of narrative fracturing as an evolutionary emergence, within HYDRANGEA a story is a flower; plotlines mutate, and realities fork; some branches break and others thrive.

“It's flowers all the way down.”