On June 20, 2026, we brought a moving, sounding, living Monsoon :: Superbloom to LACMA as part of The Art Parade curated in collaboration with Jeffrey Deitch Gallery. This walking Monsoon :: Superbloom was animated by 26 performers wearing hooded capes dyed with local kelp, mud, cochineal, and cyanotype to reveal a floating field of limbs, nets, branches, and after-the-flood debris gathered from recently flooded beaches. 

Henry Krusoe pulled an overflowing monsoon garden of riparian guerilla cuttings - a bounty of pollution-extracting willow, sycamore, native milkweed and wildflowers calling out with us for the monsoon.

Mathilda Lazelle created ceremonial crowns and sashes to anoint the performers, using foraged flowers and riparian tree cuttings. We became a flooding current with a floating garden, swirling through the street-turned-river. 

Cen O. Freedan, Claudia Romero Hernandez, Yadira Dockstader, Zella Dockstader, and Elizabeth Frances Folk also created and passed hundreds of seed bombs full of California superbloom seeds, biochar, pollution-metabolizing fungi, and post-plastic mealworm frass, ready to germinate whenever and wherever the monsoon arrives. 

Cat Mahatta, Marco Schindelmann, Ariel Oakly, and Tanner Pfeiffer sang a universe-shifting improvisational vocal score developed from the monsoon interviews to build a sonic storm of drips, rain, swirling dissonance, thunder, and utopia. 

And, 11 water bearers carried monsoon drops full of trans voice and future on shepherd’s staffs of repurposed lumber and curved steel: Jynx Prado, Shane Dixon, Mac Wilkinson, Laura Figueroa Phillips, Auggie Phillips, Umi Hsu, Jacob Alden Sargent, Mathilda Lazell, and Joseph Mueller. 

Contributing monsoon voices included: Badly Licked Bear, Shane Dixon, Umi Hsu, Wesleigh Gates, Yvonne LeBien, Rosario Martínez Pogar, edua mercedes, Ash Morgan, Pau Pescador, Yuri Preciado, Tanner Pfeiffer, Emji Saint Spero, Albus Wang, and Dorian Wood

Sadie Greyduck led our way with a stained glass thurible made from broken glass bottles reworked into a new form, smoking with dried fennel and evening primrose turned incense

Cedric Tai performed the tail of our walking monsoon :: superbloom with a exultant ribbon dance of swirling dysfluent poetry and color. 

Argel Rojo flowed with us lending his fluidity, flexibility, and gaze to the storm.