VOID SYSTEM

In the world of tea ceremony, there is a concept called “urban hermitage.” It is the aesthetic sense of recreating the atmosphere of a quiet mountain hut within the hustle and bustle of the city and enjoying it. Ancient tea masters created environments using spaces and processes such as gardens and tea rooms, allowing people to detach from the everyday world and enter a profound world of beauty.

The art collective “The TEA-ROOM,” which expresses the materiality and spirituality that make up the world of tea ceremony using contemporary methods, believed that in today’s world of abundant, diverse sounds, instead of using the method of subtracting sound, they could explore the form of a modern “urban hermitage” by adding a large amount of sound, in other words, constructing a tea room of sound.

Over a period of nearly a year, they worked on creating the piece, but it was canceled two days before construction due to the pandemic. To not forget the events and thoughts of this time when the world suddenly became a temporal urban hermitage, they leave this record here.