Spill the Tea

Contributions to the publication: 'Spill the Tea' - a workshop devised and produced in collaboration with Smriti Mehra.
'Spilled Milk' - a lenticular artwork exhibited as part of the related exhibition and then reproduced in the publication.

Over its first year the research activity of the Horniman and University of the Arts London Museum Arts Fellowship has drawn together a plurality of practices which have unpacked tea as a material component in relation to individual and specific locations and practices.This activity is drawn together in a physical publication which will be given as a gift and this freely downloadable digital version which includes more extensive texts, images and documentation.

Drawing connections between photographic images, liquid processes and social space, the project of the fellowship began by drawing analogies between the uses of photography and the rituals and practices of tea, connecting the establishment of Horniman’s Tea in 1826 to the first photographic images which were produced at that time. The fellowship’s project proposes that in these parallels photography in expanded forms is uniquely positioned to consider tea as material, as commodity, as colonial and imperial history, and as cultural practice.

Aim King, Cassie Layton, Cerys Roberts, Charlotte Bruns, Chelsie Coats, Cietisoo Nguyen, Claire Undy, Disha KulkarniDuncan Wooldridge, Elif Karaçimen, Haohao Zhang, John Whapham, Josef Konczak, Joy Gregory, Kai Fung Dennis Ngan, Katarína Čačíková, Katy Connor, Kim Knowles, Leonora Peace, Lydia Dique, Maia Conran, Melanie King, Mervyn Arthur, Natascha Ng, Navjot Mangat, Paul Greenleaf, Rod Bantjes, Ruth Hogg, Shengu Chen, Shizuka Yokomizo, Smriti Mehra, Sophia Chefalo, Synchar Bhaki Pde, Tahireh Lal, Takeshi Yokomizo, Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Maszák,