Emma Palm & Marc Merza "Seven Cups Echo"

Seven Cups Echo is a participatory performance that explores the interaction of senses in the context of an intimate tea ceremony. Utilizing an augmented tea set embedded with sensors, the gestures and movements of a gongfu style tea tasting will trigger and modulate quadrophonic sound and visual elements in real time. As participants are invited to drink tea, their movements will contribute to the co-creation of an evolving audiovisual environment, turning the ceremony into a collaborative composition scored by the ritual of both making and drinking tea. By drawing tangible connections between movement, taste, smell, sight, and sound, Seven Cups Echo creates a multi-sensory experience that reimagines a classic gongfu tea ceremony.
Conceptualized and composed by Marc Merza and Emma Palm with creative technologist Álvaro Cáceres and live projections by Cuìxī Lín. Custom ceramic tea set made by Gerin del Carmen and snacks from Gu Grocery.

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