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TEA-ROOM
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Tea-Room, Installation view, In 37 Rooms, group exhibition, Linz/Austria, June 2002
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| A historic derelict building in the city centre of Linz/Austria became a place of temporary intervention. For 2 month a group of artists worked in 37 rooms, which were then opened to an exhibition. |
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| With Tea-Room I tried to give this old abandoned building some warmth and a feeling of home back by using tea and smell as my main materials. I covered my space with about 18.000 used herb, fruit and ordinary tea bags, provided by an Austrian tea company. I spend four working months, cutting off the strings of tea bags, soaking the tea bags in hot water, laying them out for drying and then sewing them onto long pieces of fine linen, which were then stretched onto the walls and ceiling of my space.
The smell of the fruit and herb tea was not contained in my space but enveloped the whole inside of the building. The Tea-Room was on the second floor and as soon as the visitors entered the building they were greeted by an intense fruit-herbal smell. In the Tea-room itself, I served tea dressed in a Tea-Shirt made of tea bags.
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TEA-BAR |
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Tea-Bar, group exhibition, Paradigma Gallery, Linz/Austria,
Oct. 2002 |
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In the piece Tea-Bar, a smaller version of Tea-Room, I occupied a quarter of a gallery space, where I served tea in a Tea-Shirt and additionally exhibited Tea-Shirts and Tea-Bags.
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Tea-Bar, detail Tea-Shirts + Tea-Bags |
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