Special Projects
[art direction + curation + design + everything else]
“The Theatre,” May-June 2025
LUmkA is pleased to present The Theatre at 158 Rivington Street, NYC, NY, on view from 3 to 30 May 2025.
The Theatre houses environmental installations by Anna Ting Möller, Luca Rekosh, Marianna Rothen, and Miles Scharff to disrupt the consumer mind and propose a more authentic mode of being. Opposing qualitative and quantitative reasoning, sensory perception, memory, and physical and immaterial realities organize the experiential model of exhibition.
In a late-capitalist society that validates existence through perpetual consumption, we lose sight of the fact that reality is largely immaterial at its atomic level. Meanwhile, consumption becomes data, feeding algorithmic systems that target the unconscious mind—awakening desire like a sleeper agent. These subliminal cues amplify consumer longing, reinforcing a positive feedback loop that commodifies even the most intimate practices and distances us from embodied experience.
In the ruins of a hype beast retailer, a mélange of mannequins, animism, and electromagnetic field interpretations become The Theatre. Through sensory-based interventions, the exhibition disrupts this addictive compulsion toward materialism, proposing an invitation to return to presence, perception, and the reality of lived experience.
Co-Curated by Cortney Connolly, Mila Rae Mancuso, and Nicoleta Krentaras
Exhibition Photography by Mila Rae Mancuso
MARKET STUDIOS NYFW PARTY, 2024
Anti-fashion-week; fashion-week party—PROM theme. Tasked with transforming Market’s pop-up store, which was decorated like a Bass Pro Shop (taxidermy and all), into a quintessential, late 1970s Prom. Over the course of a week, we undertook a range of tasks, including styling the fashion show, scouting talent, fabricating the hanging moon for the photobooth, and sourcing objects to decorate the large space. Over 500 guests attended—it was a blast!
Hosted and Conceptualized by Gucci Pineapple [Alden McWayne]
Creative Direction, Event Planning, & Design: Mila Rae Mancuso & Annie Arriaga
Arc and Bow — Marketing Materials & Design, 2024
Detail: Illustration for tote & postcards & more!
Dana and Alden — Graphic Design, 2024
Vinyl Cover Design (back and front)
Listen to the album!
hat IRL on @gucci_pineapple
Hand-drawn merch design
Our First Tour Ever Poster — hand-drawn risograph illustration and design
Closely worked with the band, serving as the lead graphic designer for their recent album campaign for Coyote You’re My Star!
TV-14 Recordings — logo, assets, & cassette design, 2024
Illustrated and designed 1990’s-inspired assets for TV-14 Recordings.
“Arc + Bow Girls” — Illustrations 2023
I conceptualized and illustrated a campaign for Arc + Bow’s F/W 2023 collection; launching a series of photography of the wonderful customers in the A+B accessories! Inspired by drawn, 1960’s fashion campaigns and “mini mods” paper dolls, I sought to channel characters surrounding each new headband and bow and the fictional world that encompases them.
Arc + Bow S/S 2023 campaign
Photography & Art Direction by Mila Rae Mancuso
Featuring Camryn Kanew
Accessories by Arc + Bow