High (bridi) Tea

November 17, 2000
Performance Art

About the Program

High (bridi) Tea is a performative collaboration between artist Haruko Okano and writer Fred Wah that explores the visual and textual terrain of racial and cultural hybridity. The performance installation at Nice Café centres on table settings for 16 guests and, based on a material relationship on fungus and mould, plays with issues of contamination. Through a series of anecdotes and textual surprises, Okano and Wah interact with audience assumptions and expectations to create an unstable and questioning emulsion of language and memory.

Artist

Haruko Okano, Fred Wah

Identifier

2000.1117 HIG

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

Nice Café
154 E. 8th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1R7
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

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