High Tea with Brady Marks
Sat, Feb 27, 8 – 10:00 pm, Price: $5
High T, is an ambient audio-visual performance, augmented with: rose petals & Chinese black tea, pine smoked Chinese black tea, paraguayan roasted yeba maté, & Seamist tea. Together these affectations touch the boundary between immersion and remediation. Call it liminal social media.
Brady’s fluid attributes extend far beyond her liquid exoskeleton and her nurturing attitude towards compost worms. Her independent/collaboratively engineered environmental interlacing is evident in much of her webbing and audio secretions. She works away furiously in her cloud laboratory to thicken the green soup of virtual reality just enough to remind us of what we are really tasting, being careful of course to ensure that we don’t choke on the big bytes, or get hung up on the crackers.
Brady has lived in Vancouver for a number of years, and is a founding member of the octa-grouping known as intermission. She is a rare example of someone who is able to embrace metamorphosis, and is already embarking on the next evolutionary step of transcending binary.
http://www.inter-mission.org/bradymarks.html
World Tea Party: 2010 Winter Olympic Games
Feb 12 to March 21
2:00 pm to 10:00 pm daily
Tea, one of China’s great contributions to world culture, has traveled far and evolved in many ways, but regardless of tradition, language and race, the sharing of this aromatic beverage celebrates both diversity and humanity. The World Tea Party will temporarily transform an art gallery into a tea house and performance space, engaging a diverse array of communities in Vancouver’s Downtown eastside in collective art production.
Tea parties will be presented in the Centre A gallery, in local parks and community gathering places, and online. Projects include participatory Japanese tea ceremonies organized by the Urasenke Tea Foundation, and Squamish Nation herbal tea events featuring artist and herbalist Cease Wyss. Singers, dancers and a mobile tea trolley will acknowledge the ancient Luk Luk-i campsite and recognize and involve First Nations people living in the neighbourhood today.
Lead artist Bryan Mulvihill is a veteran creator known for an inimitable style that combines the role of tea master, calligrapher and facilitator of artistic encounters. Along with Su Schnee and Daniel Dion, Mulvihill is co-originator of The World Tea Party, a seminal exploration of “relational” art launched as an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in 1993.
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Presented With:
Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A) and British Columbia Arts Council
When:
2/12/2010 – 3/21/2010
2:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
Entrance fee, by donation, after 6:00 pm.
Where:
Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A)
2 West Hastings, Vancouver
Ticket Type:
Ticketed
Ticket information:
Price(s): 2:00 to 6:00 pm: Free
6:00 pm to 10pm: $5 adults, $3 students.
Tickets available at the door.
Telephone: 604 683 8326
The World Tea Party is a “social sculpture” that involves the creative empowerment of the audience and the general public. Its interactive aspect makes the World Tea Party an effective vehicle for a debate about the relationship between the Olympics and the Downtown Eastside.
Free Tea and Large Scale Video Projections
During gallery hours, tea is offered for free, both inside the gallery and at times on the street, while video projections are shown on the building’s exterior windows daily from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
Two 5,000 lumen video projectors will be used to project images 40 feet wide across the front windows of the gallery. Content will include works by commissioned artists, live images of performances, pre-recorded tea images, documentation of the World Tea Party in different contexts
Special Events
The World Tea Party features a number of special events, including Skwxumesh First Nations artist Cease Wyss, who will host a First Nations welcome event on Sunday, February 14, featuring indigenous herbal teas. On Saturday, February 20, Jun Oenoki, who is Associate Professor, Communication Studies, Tokyo Keizai University and artist-in-residence at Centre A, will produce a teleconference with partners in Yokohama which will be streamed live to the Internet and edited for outdoor display. The traditional Japanese tea ceremony is presented by the Urasenke society of Vancouver. The relaxed atmosphere of the World Tea Party invites conversation and informal performances. New additions to the line-up will be posted to the website.
Local Network – “Bright Light” partnership of 10 DTES arts groups
World Tea Party is key station in the City of Vancouver’s Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program: Bright Light, an initiative that provides pedestrian friendly light-based public art works, projections and performances along Carrall Street, Hastings Street and in the neighbouring area. The project brings together a consortium of 14 creative partners, including Access, Helen Pitt, Downtown East Cultural Centre, Artspeak, LIVE, UBC Architecture and others. Centre A acts as a hub and meeting place for Bright Light.
Come have a cup of tea!
Pigeon Park Tea
Bright Light
Opening Reception: Friday February 12th, 7:00 to 10:00pm
February 12th to March 21st, 2010
Bright Light brings together the creative energy of fourteen arts organizations active in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Outdoor performances, video projections, urban planning demonstrations, social events and a parade are just some of the manifestations that animate the historical heart of the city. The group includes artist-run centres, a fashion artist, an architecture studio, a commercial gallery, an art publisher and a public gallery.
Bright Light is one of a wide variety of public art projects that have been commissioned to mark the occasion of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Paralympic Games. In the case of Bright Light, the intention is to animate the newly completed Carrall Street Greenway with projects that explore new understandings of public art. In today’s mobile, digital era, public art has moved beyond sculpture. Time-based multi-media, internet social spaces and even books can be understood as situations for public art.
Bright Light sees public space as a political process rather than fixed place. A big question during the Olympics: who controls public space? And what public are we talking about? There are many different publics in the Downtown Eastside, including visitors to Vancouver, homeless people, business owners and a large concentration of artists, perhaps more than in any other neighbourhood in Canada.
Take a walk on the Downtown Eastside. You will discover a vibrant, dynamic and historic city centre, home to diverse communities, interesting architecture, and lots of art. Let Bright Light be your guide.
Bright Light is commissioned by the City of Vancouver through its Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program.
Website: http://bright-light.ca/
Contact: info@bright-light.ca
Media Contact: Gwen Kallio