Join a midnight tea party
Starting at midnight today, painters, poets, actors and sculptors
dressed in Victorian costumes will perform, swirl in circles, have
conversations in hushed tones and hold tea ceremonies in dimly lit
rooms, with slow trance music playing in the background.
Called Miko Kuro’s Midnight Tea, this experimental art event will be held over 12 hours, with 48 artists from the US, Canada and India showcasing paintings, sound installations and performance art and conducting poetry readings and creative discussions, punctuated by tea ceremonies.
Conceptualised and curated by USbased poet and community art organiser Natasha Marin, the event has travelled through the US and to France, Greece, Canada and China, and is being held in Mumbai in collaboration with city-based artist collective Visual Disobedience.
Viewers — or participants, as Marin prefers to call them — can join in at specific points through the 12 hours, or trail the artists as they move from venue to venue.
Called Miko Kuro’s Midnight Tea, this experimental art event will be held over 12 hours, with 48 artists from the US, Canada and India showcasing paintings, sound installations and performance art and conducting poetry readings and creative discussions, punctuated by tea ceremonies.
Conceptualised and curated by USbased poet and community art organiser Natasha Marin, the event has travelled through the US and to France, Greece, Canada and China, and is being held in Mumbai in collaboration with city-based artist collective Visual Disobedience.
Viewers — or participants, as Marin prefers to call them — can join in at specific points through the 12 hours, or trail the artists as they move from venue to venue.
With the event made up entirely of impromptu acts, there is no
schedule. All that is definite is that the event will begin at Worli’s
Tao art gallery and end at the Lakeeren gallery in Colaba.
‘Participants’ may sign up for a single three-hour session or for all 12 hours. In each session, artists will respond to the instructions of the curator or to music playing in the background.
“Each event is contingent upon the guests, who co-create the ritual with the artists rather than just watching from the sidelines,” Marin said to HT, via email. “Midnight Tea is an arena for creative engagement.”
And if trailing artists through the wee hours seems too daunting,
you can head to the Last Ship art residency in Santacruz at 9 am and
watch a three-hour video of the Mumbai event instead.
‘Participants’ may sign up for a single three-hour session or for all 12 hours. In each session, artists will respond to the instructions of the curator or to music playing in the background.
“Each event is contingent upon the guests, who co-create the ritual with the artists rather than just watching from the sidelines,” Marin said to HT, via email. “Midnight Tea is an arena for creative engagement.”
And if trailing artists through the wee hours seems too daunting,
you can head to the Last Ship art residency in Santacruz at 9 am and
watch a three-hour video of the Mumbai event instead.
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