What Tea Does
What
 
The fluid, richly layered identity of a place is formed by the interweaving of people’s lives with the physical environment and its portrayal.  
 
Tea’s critical spatial practice investigates the representation of particular places. How a place is seen, known, experienced and imagined are woven together to construct layered ‘maps’ and new narratives.
 
These reconfigurations critique single purposed portrayals and offer space for reflection and envisioning.
How
 
  1. • Active occupation of a place
  2. • Research, fieldwork, performance, recording, model-making
  3. • Dialogue with people with personal or professional relationships to the place  
  4. • Exploring the potential of video recording both to reveal and to reconfigure the identity of a place  
 
Who
 
Occupants, users, developers, professionals, general and art audiences engage with the work at different stages through:
  1. • Live events
  2. • Installations (site-specific / gallery)
  3. • Video (projected / screened)
  4. • Publications
Potential
 
Tea has a long-standing professional reputation for:
  1. • Imaginative engagement with places
  2. • Responding to different contexts
  3. • The ability to use space
  4. • Working with professionals and the public
  5. • Developing new audiences
  6. • Alternative forms of public art
  7. • Thorough research
  8. • Efficient project management
  9. • High quality outcomes
 
Tea welcomes discussions about
potential projects and new collaborations.                      
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Tea offers alternative ways of imaging places
Where
 
The contemporary urban environment:
  1. • Houses from domestic to grand
  2. • Commercial and production premises
  3. • Shops, market
  4. • Community and cultural facilities
  5. • Public spaces, canal-sides, a street
  6. • A city, a region
 
Commissioners
 
include:
The South Bank Centre, LIFT, Tate Liverpool, artranspennine, The Lowry, Cornerhouse, CUBE, local authorities, a geographer.
Work has been seen internationally in, for example, Russia, Finland, Germany, Australia and the USA.              
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