Botanical design studio This Humid House is presenting its first public event in the form of the collaborative making of a botanical installation live with renowned florist and educator Wagner Kreusch on 6 March 2024 at the Chamber of the Arts House.

Part performance, part demonstration, and part conversation, “Soft Power” draws conceptually from the language of plants and flowers presented in the context of diplomacy and furthers the medium’s storytelling potential in a historically significant space. This unique experience challenges the audience to literally and metaphorically ignore the flowers in the room no longer!

The creation of the installation will be scored live by Singapore-based electronic music producer and sound artist Dominic Khoo, aka OFTRT, whose work combines melodic soundscapes with glitchy granular rhythms. This 2-hour event concludes with a Q&A response to audience members’ questions submitted digitally during the performance.

This Humid House is a botanical design studio founded in Singapore committed to developing a language expressed through plants and flowers that is sensitive to climate, geography, culture and the contemporary. Based in Singapore and Paris, they are known for creating experiences and telling stories through living media for celebrations and events. This Humid House has been featured in Architectural Digest, Wallpaper*, Monocle, Le Figaro, The New York Times Style Magazine and La Repubblica. They were VOGUE Singapore’s artist-in-residence in December 2022 and have been commissioned to create art installations by Esplanade Singapore, the Asian Civilisations Museum and the National Parks Board.

Wagner Kreusch, a London-based florist from Brazil is a longtime teacher and practitioner of the floral arts whose distinctive work is influenced by Ikebana. Wagner is a certified Sogestsu teacher and trained under the late Ikebana master and former director of Sogetsu London, Mr Shigeo Suga. In 2017, Wagner co-founded the London Flower School. As head teacher and Creative Director, he led a team in pushing the boundaries of floral education worldwide, emphasizing floristry as an art form. Recently, Wagner has immersed himself in gardening, striving to elevate awareness of floristry’s healing potential and the fragility of natural environments.

Soft Power will be presented on 6th March 2024 at the Arts House Chamber. Tickets available here