- Venue
- ICIA Art Space 1, University of Bath
- Starts
- Wednesday, March 4, 2009
- Ends
- Friday, June 12, 2009
- Address
- University of Bath Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY
- Location
- South West England
Tea is a collaborative group of visual artists who search for the unfamiliar in familiar places. In this project they document their ‘occupation’ of a wasteland, Widnes Waterfront. In a state of decline from its industrial past,it is now poised for a phase of regeneration. Here the artists work and rest in temporary fragile structures – their ‘hides’ – to observe, research, perform and record. They offer hospitality and create dialogues with a range of people involved in the area, including: landscape and regeneration specialists, a naturalist, a chemical industry historian, business people and local residents. The artists’ presence and activity becomes a chapter in the evolving story of Widnes Waterfront.Tea’s process engages powerfully with the fluid, richly layered identity of a place formed by the interweaving of people’s lives with the physical environment. How a place is seen, known, experienced and imagined are woven together to construct new stories.Tea are Peter Hatton, Val Murray and Lynn Pilling. Previous commissioners include the Southbank Centre, LIFT, Tate Liverpool, artranspennine, The Lowry, Cornerhouse and CUBE. Their work has been seen in Russia, Finland,Germany, Australia and America.
