Installation view. Photos by Jessica Maurer
We Tea
WE TEA is an immersive installation developed through Jingwei’s ongoing studio-based tea ceremony practice since 2022. Rooted in intimate gatherings with friends, family, and visitors, each session becomes a durational act of presence where the slow rituals of making and sharing tea quietly document shared time and space. The exhibition then presents the residue of this encounters and the time shared through a three walls silk tea room, a tea-stained paper tower and a wall of tea stain papers with spontaneous words, soundscapes and dried tea leaves.
Since 2022, reused A4 copy paper has become a core material within the tea ceremony, reflecting a contemporary approach to the intersection of impermanence and repetition, organic and mess production. Through this material, the work explores the evolving relationship between tea and paper, presence and absence, time and memory, drawing on Taoist and Chan (Zen) philosophies.
We Tea offers a space for slowing down, being present, and sensing the subtle: a practice of quiet transformation through everyday rituals.
creative team:
Sound recording: Adam Richie
Sound remix: Ying He
Videographer: Ying He
Sculpture installation support: Mikhail Rodrick
Performance collaborator: Michaela Bear
Essay writer: Michaela Bear
This exhibition is in partnership with Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE).
Catalogue Essay by Michaela Bear.
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“WE TEA/我们茶”是一场沉浸式装置展览，从艺术家Jingwei自2022年的持续发展的茶项目积累至今。对于艺术家，这个在工作室中进行的茶道共享过程就是作品，与朋友、家人、访客的相聚，每一次泡茶与品饮的缓慢仪式悄无声息地记录下共享的时间与空间，成为一场持续的行为表演。
遗留下的痕迹：茶叶茶渍、即兴诗歌，时间通过茶渍不断累积。由茶道过程萃取的音频，包括中文的禅意诗歌，和三块剩茶晕染的丝绸构成的茶室，一个由多次行为表演“倒茶直到蒸发” 使用过的A4打印纸罗砌的柱子共同构建出一种静观的环境，内观自身外观世界。
自2022年，重复利用的A4打印纸成为茶道仪式的核心材料，是艺术家大胆的直接的实验性当代艺术手法的尝试。通往短暂的与重复的， 凝固的与流动的、有机的与批量生产的这些交汇点， Jingwei在作品中探索茶与纸、在场与缺席、时间与记忆之间的演变关系。
WE TEA同时汇集感官体验、诗意印记、哲思探究，提供一个空间，让大家放慢步伐、专注当下、感知细微。
展览中，Jingwei 与观众在展馆中的茶室中一对一对坐，共享静默的无声无物的茶道仪式本身与时间的流逝。
该展览与Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE)合作举办。
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