Sat, 01 Jul
|RCA Campus
Manhole Tea Ceremony | KCAW Art Trail 2023
Part of KCAW Art Trail, join artist Satur Song perform her public art trail Tea Ceremony. Satur Chong is a Malaysian artist currently studying at the Royal College of Art.
When + Where
01 Jul 2023, 13:00 – 13:30
RCA Campus, Riverside, 1 Hester Rd, London SW11 4AY, UK
About
The Manhole Tea Set is a performance piece where the artist, Satur Chong, and random members of the public are invited to sit down around a manhole, in a pretend ceremony of drinking tea.
A tea set installed on a chosen manhole cover in South Kensington and in Battersea RCA Campus, both the teapot and 2 cups having a matte black texture and the same pattern as the manhole cover – that includes the triangular patterns and the iconic 'heart shape' in the middle of the manhole cover. The addition of this teapot and cups visually turns the manhole cover underneath them into the tea tray of the 'Manhole Tea Set'.
Satur Chung is a Malaysian artist currently studying at The Royal College of Art, in London. Her practice and research continually focus on exploring the relationship between individual-perspective jewelry as an intimate object and macro-perspective public art. Her recent artworks included mix-media wearable objects, crafts objects, and public installations in various sites for example lifts, streets, and toilets, in pursuit of an interactive, relational, and communication-provoking art form.
24 + 25 June
30-minute performances at 1 pm + 3 pmÂ
South Kensington A manhole next to the Plinth Gallery
1 + 2 July
30-minute performances at 1 pm + 3 pmÂ
RCA Battersea Campus as part of the Artist's Graduate Show
Riverside, 1 Hester Rd, London SW11 4AY