{"uid":"39IKyI0HttG8Z8X2","type":"artist","tags":["others"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"The Tearoom Project","summary":"The objective of The Tearoom Project is about mindfulness by using tea as a medium. Tea tasting requires a slower pace of mind and action, by participating in this activity, we depart temporarily from the world and arrive in the present. Simply be aware of the experience rather than chasing after it. Tea drinking has become an improvisational act to interact with the audience; It is a fundamental guide to investigate the role of an artist and audience, and to blur the boundary of art and life.\nThis project intends to make art more approachable. The artist will brew and serve tea by reacting to the gestures of the participants. \nWhen we view a piece of artwork with our sight, at times we may not be able to interpret what we see in an art piece,  but we could taste and understand the taste of tea on our palette and this interaction itself form an understanding of what is being expressed. While it is ambiguous to differentiate whether it is an art performance or a mundane act of tea drinking, this is the methodology to blur the boundary of art and life where the gap between the artist and the audience is minimise at the same time.","space":"This project could be carried out at site-specific and non-site-specific locations, at both indoor and (sheltered) outdoor locations. For site-specific tearoom, the concept will be based on the context of that specific location. For non-site-specific tearoom, the idea is to re-identify the use of an area by initiating a temporary tearoom at sites which had already been devoted to a specific purpose.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/404205835","audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"names":"Aiwei","surname":"Foo","email":"aiweifoo@gmail.com","dni_type":"Other","dni":"780104135904","address":"Lot 673 Pujut Padang Kerbau, 98000 Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia","city":"Miri","nacionality":"Malaysian","country_id":"160","birthdate":"1978-01-03T16:30:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1978-01-03T16:30:00.000Z","telephone":"+6588209796","web":"http:\/\/aiweifoo.com\/"}