"Irasshaimase": Swiss born artist Markuz Wernli Saito performs a mobile tea ceremony at Kyoto station, Japan. This mobile tea party is only one event in a series of relational art titled: "At your Service, Creative Treatments for the Urban Public". More at: www.momentarium.org. Video published in the rowmuse art video series. Alse see: www.rowmuse.com.
The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain. ~Lu Yu
teelanovela 2 years ago
I know this is a nice ceremony and performance but if you travel to Asia beware of tea ceremony scams, I got charged $100 on my credit card in Shanghai.
REPORT IT AT SCAMSPOTTERSDOTCOM. Probably the scam happens more in China than Japan.
dcortesedc 4 years ago
you could practice your attentive powers. this is more like a bull in a c hina shop than a master in a tea room
Jeff403 4 years ago
Absolutely brilliant. So surreal to see a funky white guy (in neon over robes no less!) re-engage modern Japanese folks in their own traditions. It would be interesting to see how people in some rural town in Texas would respond to Markuz...
ellenorav 5 years ago
Wow, i want to be a part of it: please invite me for tea!
mzwernli 5 years ago