CuriosiTEA @ the OzAsia Festival2019
As a durational contemporary ritual, Yumi serves many bowls of CuriosiTEA to the general public, artists and tourists, to activate and provoke cultural encounters and personal interactions.
CuriosiTEA 26(Sat) Oct 2019
1-4pm @ Lucky Dumpling Market, Riverbank Lawns
As a durational contemporary ritual, Yumi serves many bowls of CuriosiTEA to the general public, artists and tourists, to activate and provoke cultural encounters and personal interactions.
Visitors are invited to absorb the simple rituals of tea ceremony in silence and share conversations and interactions in the open air. The deep sense of presence and silence initially afforded by the space will facilitate time to pause and reflect, counterbalancing noise and distraction to create a unique space through public interaction.
Un-Certain TEA@Studio Luma, Krakow Poland
A special collaboration between a visual artist Dorota Mytych and Yumi Umiumare
Un-Certain TEA@Studio Luma, Krakow Poland
Un-Certain TEA@Studio Luma, Krakow Poland
by DOROTA MYTCH & YUMI UMIUMARE
25 SEP 2019
“There is nothing certain but the uncertain” (proverb)
“Pewne jest tylko to, że ma nic pewnego” (przysłowie)
This was a special collaboration between POLISH VISUAL ARTIST DOROTA MYTCH
& Japanese Australian performance artist YUMI UMIUMARE.
Dorota and Yumi had created a participatory performance Space where Audience were invited to have a bowl of tea.
while being a part of the ritual of tea ceremony, they were also experiencing the ephemeral images through video projection- Uncanny Others .
Uncanny Others consists of two archival images of war and one family photo from Mytych’s childhood. They are accurately drawn using tea leaves and coffee grounds and filmed as still images which later disintegrate.
Video Installation Uncanny Others by Dorota Mytych
Performance PopUp Tearoom by Yumi Umiumare
Music
PopUp Tearoom Series by Dan West
Requiem for My Friend by Zbigniew Preisner
Góralska pieśń ludowa
Specjalne podziękowania dla
Photo by
Dominik Papai and Nic Bartlett
OBOK zaprasza na instalację performatywną Yumi Umiumare i Doroty Mytych zatytuowaną.
Un-cetainTEA to współczesny rytuał-performans łączący japońską ceremonię parzenia herbaty z działaniami artystycznymi.
Publiczność zostanie zaproszona do wypicia czarki zielonej herbaty, a podczas rytuału odbędzie się projekcja video efemerycznego obrazu usypanego z liści herbaty.
Będzie to "durational performance” trwający 1 godzinę - można przyjść w dowolnym momencie i zostać krócej lub dłużej. Zapraszamy!
Środa, 25 września 2019, godzina 19:00
Studio Luma
Ślusarska 9, 30-702 Kraków
Super-NaturalTEA @ Warsaw, Poland Sep 2019
Super-NaturaliTEA in Warsaw September 2019
Performance by Yumi Umiumare and, Adam Sōmu Wojciński, Teatr Limen Butoh: Sylwia Hanff, Marzena Brzezinska, Magdalena Jakubów and Anna Sulejewicz (guest) and Akitsu Orii (flute) during the International Day of Peace. It was really super-naturaliTEA! Pictures by Krzysztof Stacha
Super-NaturallTEA
@, the Służewski Culture Center, Warsaw, Poland September 2019
2-hour durational performance.
Super-NaturaliTEA - PopUp Tearoom Series
Performance by
Yumi Umiumare with the participation
Adam Sōmu Wojciński and Akitsu Orii(Flute)
the Limen Butoh Theater
Sylwia Hanff
Magdalena Jakubów
Marzena Brzezińksa
Anna Sulejewicz (guest).
PopUp Tearoom series offers various experiences through the rituals of tea ceremonies, installation and performances. Audience are invited to sit and have a bowl of green tea and pop-up performances will be happening during the rituals. The multiple performances will unfold over the tea ceremonies for audience to partake a bowl of Super-NaturaliTEA, pause& reflect and to be in the surreal dream-like performances.
Supernatural in dictionary : The caused by forces or the things that cannot be explained by science
The performance took place as part of the International Day of Peace under the auspices of the United Nations. The event is organized by the Heiwa Foundation, the Urasenke Sunshinkai Tea Road Association, the Umemi Foundation in cooperation with the Warsaw Mokotów District Office, the Japanese Embassy, the Służewski Culture Center, and the UN Information Center in Warsaw
Pictures by Krzysztof Stacha
Butoh and Tea in Águeda, Portugal Sep 2019
Yumi is running workshop in Portugal and Poland, presenting her PopUp Tearoom Series in Agueda, Portugal 13 September and Warsaw. Poland 21 September 2019.
Butoh and Tea in Europe- workshop and performances
10-13 Sep 2019 Workshop and performance in Portugal
@Casa de cha parque municipal alta vila, Águeda
Hosted by AgitaLab LINK
Yumi has got an opportunity of the artist in residency at Casa de in the Alta Vila Park, Águeda, is one of the projects of the Association Improvise and Organize annually supported by the Municipality of Agueda.
The Residence was offered artists several creative spaces and presentation opportunities to an audience, in exchange for the participation in events involving the local community, such as workshops and open studio.
LiNK: ALTA VILA HOUSE PARK_IVV_TEA ROOM
UnpredictabiliTEA @Bochum, Germany Sep 2019
PopUp Tearoom Series - UnpredictabiliTEA
Special One night event inside of the airplane installation
1 Sep 2020
Jahrhunderthalle Bochum Germany
PopUp Tearoom Series - unpredictabiliTEA
Special One night event inside of the airplane installation
with performance by local artists- Christian, Lila,Eva, Lukas, Walther and Rosi
1 Sep 2020
at Jahrhunderthall.
Jahrhunderthalle Bochum Germany
An der Jahrhunderthalle 1
D-44793 Bochum
PopUp Tearoom Series @ Abbotsford Convent Open Spaces 2018
PopUp Tearoom Series at Abbotsford Convent' Open Spaces 2018
CuriosiTEA : Nov 17(Sat) 2 – 9pm & 18(Sun) 12 – 6pm @ Oratory, Sacred Heart building
'CuriosiTEA' Pop-up Tearoom at Abbotsford Convent' Open Spaces 2018
Nov 17(Sat) 2 – 9pm & 18(Sun) 12 – 6pm @ Oratory, Sacred Heart building
A fusion of Butoh, dance, performance and installation, with classical and contemporary Japanese tea ceremonies, audiences are invited to come and go, pause and reflect. As long ago as the 16th century, tearooms were created in war zones, with the tea ceremony functioning to relieve emotional stress and restore social order. Curious about what sort of ‘tea’ we can make today, Yumi invokes the Japanese notion of ‘ma’ or ‘active pause’ and serves you a bowl of 'curiosiTEA' with an element of surprise and provocation. Yumi is behind the dyanamic ButohOUT! Festival, held annually at the Convent and regularly performs and producers work onsite.
Dance Massive Site Responsive Showcase, presented by Abbotsford Convent and Ausdance Victoria as part of Dance Massive 2019.
Image: Anne Moffat
World Tea Gathering in Adelaide Nov 2018
The Art Gallery of South Australia will host the 2018 World Tea Gathering this November as part of the OzAsia Festival. Tea artists from Australia, France, Japan, Brazil and Germany will assemble from the 2nd to 9th of November, presenting a week of pop-up events and performances celebrating the art of tea.
The Art Gallery of South Australia will host the 2018 World Tea Gathering this November as part of the OzAsia Festival. Tea artists from Australia, France, Japan, Brazil and Germany will assemble from the 2nd to 9th of November, presenting a week of pop-up events and performances celebrating the art of tea.
FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER
17:00 – 21:00
AGSA FIRST FRIDAYS
ICHI GO ICHI E・YOLO (one time, one meeting / You Only Live Once)
Journey to the gallery for unique encounters with the World Tea Gathering artists through tea. Tonight marks the informal start of the World Tea Gathering.
Impromptu tea rituals take place throughout the gallery as well as scheduled performances inspired by the spirit of tea.
Yumi Umiumare, Adam Wojciński and Erika Kobayashi will perform a tea ritual with no utensils, no tea. The performance elucidates the essence of tea ritual through the emotion of the human body.
In addition to your bowl of tea, enjoy the hypnotic sounds of the Moonta Street band and take a tour with a Gallery Guide through some of our international displays.
Cost: Free
Where: Whole Gallery -Art Gallery of South Australia
Enquiries: agsa.information@artgallery.sa.gov.au
SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER
11:00 – 15:00
WORLD TEA GATHERING SYMPOSIUM- TOGETHERNESS THROUGH TEA
A timely discussion on tea as a global culture and global artistic/philosophic tradition that unites all cultures, all people. The symposium follows a dynamic format. Academic presentations are punctuated by tea ritual, performance and tea flowing from pot to audience.
Cost: Free
Where: Radford Auditorium, behind the Art Gallery of South Australia
Enquiries: agsa.information@artgallery.sa.gov.au
SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER
11:00 – 15:00
START AT THE GALLERY - Children & Families - TEA AND TOGETHERNESS -
Discover the art of tea at this START event. Be introduced to tea traditions with globe-trotting tea artists and experience the joy of togetherness expressed through ritual, art, music and more.
Cost: Free
Where: Whole Gallery
Enquiries: agsa.information@artgallery.sa.gov.au
World Tea Gathering Information
PopUp Tearoom Series @ APAM Brisbane
PopUp Tearoom Series has been selected for a prestigious showcase opportunity in Brisbane at APAM 2018, presenting to national and international delegates.
PopUp Tearoom Series has been selected for a prestigious showcase opportunity in Brisbane at APAM 2018, presenting to national and international delegates.
Enter a dreamlike installation space, where Yumi Umiumare’s unique fusion of Butoh, physical theatre and spoken word are interspersed with classical and contemporary tea ceremonies.
Since the 16th century, tea ceremonies have been performed to relieve emotional stress and restore social order. Curious about what sort of ‘tea’ we can make today, Umiumare invokes the Japanese notion of ‘ma’ or ‘active pause’. The deep sense of presence and silence afforded by the PopUp Tearoom offers participants a chance to pause and reflect, but in true Umiumare style there’s an element of provocation too.
FRI 23 FEB 2:00pm - 4:00pm
at Rooftop Terrace | Brisbane Powerhouse
2 hrs Durational Performance
Con-TemporariTEA @ Mapping Melbourne Festival2017
A collaboration between Yumi Umiumare's PopUp Tearoom Series and S-Jon's Tumbleweed project, Con-TemporariTEA is a durational performance ritual, exploring freedom and spontaneity. It was a part of Mapping Melbourne Festival.
Con-TemporariTEA
1(Fri) Dec 2017, 5pm-9pm at Testing Ground as a part of Mapping Melbourne Festval
A collaboration between Yumi Umiumare's PopUp Tearoom Series and S-Jon's Tumbleweed project, Con-TemporariTEA is a durational performance ritual, exploring freedom and spontaneity. When the wind blows, the things collected transform the landscape with new shape and forms emerging organically like tumbleweed. This is a collective inspiration of movement via the wind, where people from many diverse countries have settled into the one city, bringing their culture and rituals and through interaction create unique markings that redefine a diverse landscape, community and society full of beautiful colour, shape and texture
Created and Performance by Yumi Umiumare and S-Jon
Music by Dan West
Coral object by Naomi Ota
Original PopUp Tearoom Series has assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body
Con-TemporatiTEA is a part of Mapping Melbourne 2017, supported by Multicultural Arts Victoria.
AnxieTEA in Sydney
As a part of Eco-Anxiety festival, Yumi will explore the concept of ‘AnxieTEA’, through various tea ceremony rituals, creating elements between the anxious and calm, sacred and profane, serious and absurdly funny.
Yumi Umiumare’s PopUp Tearoom Series offers various experiences through the ritual of tea ceremonies, installation, and performance.
For Eco-Anxiety, Yumi will explore the concept of ‘AnxieTEA’, through various tea ceremony rituals, creating elements between the anxious and calm, sacred and profane, serious and absurdly funny.
OPENING RECEPTION at Japan Foundation, Sydney
September 22, 2017 (Friday)
6pm-8pm
Features Yumi Umiumare’s AnxieTEA interactive performance.
Free; bookings not necessary.
September 23, 2017 (Saturday)
1pm-3pm
@Central Park
Outdoors, off Central Park Ave
Chippendale NSW 2008
http://www.yumi.com.au/2908-2/
https://jpf.org.au/events/anxietea/
Photo by Shoko Ono
SpontaneiTEA @ Mapping Melbourne Festival
PopUp Tearoom Series: SpontaneiTEA as a part of Mapping Melbourne festivalMonday5 and 12 December, 4-8pm @Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale
PopUp Tearoom Series: SpontaneiTEAas a part of Mapping Melbourne festival Monday5 and 12 December, 4-8pm @Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale
The PopUp Tearoom Series is a durational performance and site-specific installation. Audiences are invited to sit and have a bowl of green tea and the pop-up performances will be happening in spirit of spontaneiTEA of the moment.
Photo by Barry C Douglas
OrganiciTEA @Wimmera Butoh Residential workshop
PopUp Tearoom has created during the Wimmera Butoh Residential workshop.
PopUp Tearoom has created during the Wimmera Butoh Residential workshop.The participants of the workshop were invited to sit down and share the rituals of the tea ceremony for reflecting their process of the workshop. Butoh workshop in November
SpontaneiTEA @Hong Kong I-Dance Festival
PopUp Tearoom series was invited as a part of the opening event of i-dance festival, and has popped up in front of Kwai Tsing Theatre in Hong Kong,Yumi was one of invited artists and also joined their international exchange improvisation dance.
Our Place, Our Home, Melbourne Town Hall
Our Place, Our Homeas a part of Melbourne International Festival@ Melbourne Town Hall The PopUp Tearoom space was created in Melbourne Town Hall, in front of the installation by Chikaru Shiota
Our Place, Our Homeas a part of Melbourne International Festival@ Melbourne Town Hall The PopUp Tearoom space was created in Melbourne Town Hall, in front of the installation by Chikaru Shiota
The culminating moments of the 2016 Melbourne Festival was a celebration of diversity—a fitting bookend to our opening ceremony from the land’s First Peoples, with a multicultural exchange through coffee, tea and music. Event Information
RecyclabiliTEA@ Lospalos, Timor-Leste
Yumi visited Timor-Leste as artist-in-residence with Lospalos-based NGO Many Hands International. She collaborated with local artists and the community in creating a site-specific pop-up Tearoom space.
Yumi visited Timor-Leste as artist-in-residence with Lospalos-based NGO Many Hands International. Yumi seeks to observe and learn about Timorese culture, especially ideas around ritual and magic. In Lospalos, Yumi collaborated with local artists and the community in creating a site-specific pop-up Tearoom space. She has worked with established artist Cesario Lourdes, his students in Many Hands youth arts program and dancers from local performing groups at the Centro Cultura Lautem (Cultural center in Lautem). They have created the unique tearoom installation space from the street rubbish with plastic packets, waste bottles, cans and thrown cigarettes packets.
Members of the community were invited to participate these creative interactions.
Public showing for PopUp Tearoom- RecyclabiliTEA 15(Fri) July from 2pm-5pm at Centro Cultura Lautem, Lospalos 18(Mon) July 3-5pm in the main street in front of the mural done my Many Hands youth arts program
Photo by members from Many Hands International, including Corry and Cesario Lourdes Thanks for the local participation including Sr Jose Monteiro ,District administration
SereniTEA@ Manila Bay, Philippines
As a part of artist in residency in 98B in Manila, Yumi has collaborated with local artists to create a pop-up tearoom as a public interaction, in the busy tourist area at the Manila Bay.
As a part of artist in residency in 98B in Manila, Yumi has collaborated with local artists to create a pop-up tearoom as a public intervention, in the busy tourist area at the Manila Bay. Yumi has also create pop-up tearoom spaces in Jeepney, one of the most popular public transport in the Philippines, and also in the campus of the University of the Philippines.
Credit: 98 COLLABoraroty , Joseph Gabriel, Anjo Bolarda Thanks to Marika B. Constantino, Ling Quisumbing Ramilo, and Riza Manalo
Photo by Joseph Gabriel and Anjo Bolarda
PopUp Tearoom Series@ FOLA
2 -10 March @ Arts HouseDurational performance ins dreamlike installations with a Japanese tearoom.Through a series of tea ceremonies, Yumi and her collaborating artists invite you to ingest their unique teas of sereniTea, deformiTea, sensualiTea and more!
一服いかがですか ?Would you like a cup of tea? Enter a dreamlike installation space, where traditional, surreal and virtual tearooms pop up unannounced. Through a series of tea ceremonies, Yumi Umiumare and her collaborating artists invite you to ingest their unique teas of sereniTea, deformiTea, sensualiTea and more. Traditionally, tea-ceremony rooms had a small door which visitors bowed to enter, dropping the hierarchies of the world outside. In times of war, Medieval Samurai had to leave their swords outside as the tearoom provided relief from the emotional stress and social disorder of the battlefield.
Curious about what sort of ‘Tea’we can make today, Umiumare invokes the Japanese notion of ‘ma’ or ‘active pause’ to explore deep presence in spaces that can be simultaneously reflective and provocative
Where Warehouse@ArtsHouse ,North Melbourne Town Hall When 2(Wed),3(Thur),4(Fri) 5pm-10pm, 5(Sat)2pm-7pm 9(Wed),10(Thur),11(Fri) 5pm-10pm
It is 5hours durational performance and installation, as a part of FOLA. Audiences are invited to come and go throughout the session.There are various experiences to be had throughout each PopUp Tearoom Series. Each session features daily special performances by guest artists.Keep your eye out for Tearooms, they can PopUp anywhere!
Created by Yumi Umiumare in collaboration with Adam Wojcinski and Gregory Lorenzutti
Performance by Yumi Umiumare and Gregory Lorenzutti Music by Dan West Video Projection by Bambang N Karim Special Guest: Shoso Shimbo(Ikebana), Yuka Discobeans Tearoom by Zen's Studio Booking Detail Vimeo Link
HumidiTEA@ Melaka festival, Malaysia
The pop up tearoom space has appeared in front of the historic building of Melaka, St Paul church to create ephemeral and dream like space.
The pop up tearoom space has appeared in front of the historic building of Melaka, St Paul church to create ephemeral and dream like space. As a contemporary ritual, Yumi has served many bowls of tea to the tourist, artists and general public to activate and provoke cultural encounters and personal interactions Melaka Festival PopUp Tearoom Series
Credit: Kavisha Mazzella, Andy Green and other local people and visitors whom Yumi served tea to!
PopUp tearoom series@Artshouse, Cultural Lab
PopUpTearoom series @ ArtsHouse as a part of CulturalLAB, exploring multidimensional performance spaces, collaborated with a dancer, visual artist, media artist, tea ceremony and Ikebana specialists.
Over the 2weeks of studio residency as a part of Cultural LAB program at ArtsHouse, Yumi explores multidimensional performance spaces, created actual, virtual and surreal ‘tearooms’ through collaboration with dancer, visual artist, media artist, tea ceremony and Ikebana specialists, to deepen her interdisciplinary practice and approach. Yumi Umiumare in collaboration with Adam Wojcinski (performer/tea artist) Anne Norman(musician) Bambang N Karim (media artist) Dan West (sound artist) Gregory Lorenzutti (performer/ photographer) Riza Manalo (visual artist) Shoso Simbo (Ikebana/flower arrangement artist)
This project was supported by Australian Council for the Arts, Dance Board (Fellowship) and CulturalLAB,ArtsHouse.
Photo by Ben Thomas, Yumi Umiumare
DiversiTEA in Europe
Aug/ Sep 2015 PopUpTearoom in Europe- Germany,Poland, Czech Republic and Italy,
Over 6weeks in Europe, while Yumi has participating several international workshops and events, Yumi has experimented small tea ceremonies in each location.
GERMANY-BERLIN
An informal show and tell @ Tatwerk, a theatre space in Berlin, presenting a footage of Yumi's journey in Europe and Japan over 2month, combining with rituals of tea ceremony.
GERMANY-BROELLIN
After being as a one of choreographers in ‘eX..it!’ international Butoh exchange project in Schloss Broellin, she conducted a ritual of serving bowls of tea to the teachers and participants, as deparCHA tea. In the small room of the residency, setting up tea set on the yoga mat. Departure(Depar茶) Tea＃1@Schloss Brollin Departure(Depar茶) Tea＃2@Schloss Brollin
POLAND/ ITALY
POLAND-Visiting Krakow to exchange ideas and collaborate with local Polish/Australian visual artist. ITALY-Yumi conducted an intensive Butoh workshop in Ancona, Italy, and searving bowls of tea in the local residency. In the Yoga room at the local residency in Ancona, Italy
Departure(Depar茶) Tea＃4@Ancona, Italy
CZECH REPUBLIC- CHRIBSKA
As a participant of ‘Bohemia Rosa' project in Czech republic-workshop focusing body, site and landscape run by Milos Šejn & Frank van de Ven, Yumi has explored to create tea ceremonies/ rituals in the middle of the national park near Chribska, incorporating the elements of nature -water, earth, leaf, moss and other organic materials.
