On this episode of The Emergence Room, we're so honored to sit down with Sean Mooney — American Academy in Rome Fellow, artist, curator, and longtime collaborator with Chuna McIntyre.
This conversation unfolds around music and singing, and how sound becomes a way of holding memory, devotion, and care. We talk about what it means to live as an artist who is also a caretaker — of ideas, of objects, of people, and of shared histories.
We reflect together on houses: the homes our families once lived in, the places we grew up in, and the meaning of returning to them. Jason and I share about recently buying a family home, and Sean talks about renovating his — not just as a practical act, but as a form of curating memory, tending to the past, and making space for what comes next.
We talk about collaboration, about caring for objects and stories, about legacy — not as something abstract or distant, but as something shaped through daily attention, responsibility, and love. It's a conversation about keeping our house in order, in every sense of the phrase, and about how emergence often looks like showing up for one another with patience and care.
We're deeply grateful for Sean's generosity, openness, and presence in this conversation. This one will stay with you long after it ends.
