Maho Ogawa: Japanese Tea Ritual. Image courtesy Culture Push.
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As part of the Culture Push Show Don't Tell Symposium, in Reaching Out, Binding Together, three presentations explore how we connect to each other and the world, and how and when we hold on and let go.
PROGRAM
Maho Ogawa: Japanese Tea and Ritual Room
Performances 5 P.M. and 7:30 P.M.
Installation on view 5–8 P.M.
Tara Aliya Kesavan, Indranil Choudhury and Aditi Dey:Bengali Urban Gardening Oral Soundscape
Installation on view 5–8 P.M.
Emily Bass: The Dendron Project
Performance and workshop 5:45 P.M.
Interactive exhibit open 5-8 P.M.
The Japanese Tea and Ritual Room is a presentation by Maho Ogawa that takes the form of an interactive performance installation which connects Japanese Tea Ceremony, Zen meditation, and personal ritual and aims to help people find peace through the custom and philosophy of Tea Rituals. Periodic activations performed by Ogawa with Annie Wang. The layering of personal ritual is made through collaboration with the general public through a survey about personal rituals conducted at different times of day.Members of the public are invited to join in person and to participate by filling out the Japanese Tea and Ritual Room Questionnaire.
Tara Aliya Kesavan and Indranil Choudhury (Fellows 2022), with Aditi Dey, present Bengali Urban Gardening Oral Soundscape, an oral history project and installation that aims to research urban gardening practices within the Bangladeshi community in New York. In neighborhoods like Jamaica in Queens and Sunset Park in Brooklyn, residential homes are often used to grow seasonal produce, turning backyards and open spaces into lush vegetable gardens each year. For the Show Don't Tell Symposium, the group will introduce a work in progress based on oral histories from this community. Later this summer, these audio stories will go on to form part of a larger public exhibition dedicated to the project.
The Dendron Project is making a people’s immunology for (all) pandemic times. If the body is always a battleground and we are at war with ourselves, who wins? What do we know about the ways that our bodies heal, recognize and respond? The Dendron Project’s inaugural meeting of the People’s Immunology Committee convenes on Sunday June 18th to create new and true stories about how we deal with danger, know ourselves and seek to heal. This committee meeting will commence with a slide talk by the Dendron Project Principal Investigator, Emily Bass, and with guest speakers including the Dendritic Cell and the Transparent Woman. Committee members will have the chance and choice to contribute images, texts, gestures, ideas and queries to the project of making the people’s immunology.