Coo Cups: One on one art performance durational tea sharing with Caroline CHIU 趙汝賢的一期一會茶會藝術表演

​Date: Saturday, 8 June, 2024
Time: 2–6pm
 
- This event is conducted in English
- Duration per session: 20 minutes
- Registration required (Full)
 
‘I will make tea for you — and we will share this special time together.’ — Caroline CHIU
 
About
Coo Cups is a project Caroline CHIU started in 2018 as an artistic exploration of the art form and material of porcelain vessels. The cups are available in limited numbers, each unique and hand-painted by the artist. The series was first launched in ‘Shek-O Sublime’, a group exhibition at Gallery EXIT curated by Caroline in the same year. Through Coo Cups, a project symbolising her personal resilience during the past few years, Caroline wishes to express her love for Hong Kong and the art community. After five years, Caroline finally made the journey to Jingdezhen in 2022. This time, she unveiled a new series of work inspired by the Buddhist prayer known as the Heart Sutra.
 
The concept of Coo Cups also pays homage to Marcel Duchamp’s iconic ready-made sculpture Fountain, where an everyday object is turned into art when placed on a pedestal in a museum. In the case of Coo Cups, a functional drinking vessel for tea and coffee becomes at the same time a piece of art. Each Coo Cup is an artwork itself. Caroline has turned an ordinary household item that is mass-produced into a unique piece of art that is functional, blurring the boundary between art and crafts. Flipping Duchamp’s concept of the ‘ready-made’ to the superior functionality of contemporary Cuban-American artist and sculptor Jorge Pardo, each Coo Cup is engineered to be the best teacup and an artwork itself.
 
 
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Related exhibition: Caroline CHIU 趙汝賢 : Coo Cups ♡ Hong Kong