Collaborative artistic research project using sonic essay and performance lecture formats to explore the narratives (scientific, material, cultural, sensory) surrounding a plant that flowers for one night only: the ‘Queen of the Night’ or Epiphyllum oxypetalum.

The 90-minute participatory lecture (including stories, meditations, sensory and drawing exercises) was staged in a garden space in Berlin-Mitte, with eleven E. oxypetalum plants – all clones from a single leaf – belonging to various people in Berlin (see IN THE CANOPY OF CLONES).

The installation included a soundscape, a Nocturne for the Queen, a bespoke scent that recreated the flower’s perfume to lure the flowering event and which was imprinted on a floating, moon-like balloon that diffused the scent throughout the garden, custom plinths and light fixtures.