Writing & Speaking
A collection of essays, conversations, lectures, and publications that explore the philosophies and methodologies behind our work.
Bringing the Real Alive
ESSAY
Party Planner, 2 — 2023
In a party, we shift and reposition ourselves into a world where we can become fully present and witnessed. We discuss our approach to throwing parties that are in conversation with the cultural-environmental moment of today, defined by planetary health crisis.
ESSAY
LUNCH Journal, 17 — 2023
An exploration of alternative tools—such as trance, transmutation, and ancestry—for approaching landscape architectural design, as derived from Nocturnal Medicine’s practice.
Towards the Core: working (worming) underneath landscape architecture
Embodied Ecologies: 6 Stories in Communion with Nature
LECTURE & PANEL
New Museum x NEW INC — 2022
Presented in partnership with Serpentine Gallery’s Synthetic Ecologies Lab, Nocturnal Medicine’s co-founders present on their practice along with other members of NEW INC’s Creative Science Track.
Collective Ecological Intimacy
PODCAST
Flooded: Climate Psychology Alliance of North America — 2022
Climate psychologist Merritt Juliano in conversation with Nocturnal Medicine’s co-founders on using new and old traditions to heal our connection to nature and encourage spiritual healing.
Repairing the Disconnect Between People & Nature
PODCAST
Better World — 2021
Nocturnal Medicine co-founders discuss cultivating spiritual resiliency in the face of environmental challenge and the power of partying with Max Moinian.
Guide to Contemporary Ecological Ethics
ESSAY
Self-Published — 2020
Our guide to contemporary ecological ethics ushers us into a relational approach to environmentalism, reminding us "that Earth is not over there, while we are over here." Released on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day in partnership with SMUSH Gallery.
Ample Spheres of Yew: Topiary as Guide & Co-Existent
ESSAY
Paprika, 5, 13 — 2020
An exploration of topiary as a vehicle for building greater intimacy with the un-categorizable, "queer" natures that populate our ecologically entangled world.
Party: Ecological Architecture for Intimate Relations
ESSAY
Thresholds Journal, 46 — 2018
The birthday party, the rave, the funeral gathering, the wedding—each of them employs material, sensual, spatial, & temporal frameworks for social unfolding. We make a case for the party as an architectural endeavor.
Dark Freak
ESSAY
Scapegoat Journal, 11 — 2018
Between 2013 and 2016, Nocturnal Medicine put on a roving, recurring party called Dark Freak which was designed to create space for intertwining with the strange, surprising liveliness of self & other. Our essay for the LIFE issue of Scapegoat is accompanied by a visual essay on sensual exuberance.
