Spill your Tea

Spill your Tea focuses on personal struggles that we as people have to overcome and what we create out of them. As a team, we decided to focus on the struggles that occur between what we believe as our true self, and our desires, versus what others perceive as who we are, and what they may desire of us.

 

To illustrate this interaction, our team is creating a hybrid physical/digital project where the audience explores the process of making a cuppa in two ways. The first way focuses on the physical aspect of making tea, with the audience uncovering and reading the story via scrolls hidden in the tea set, with the tea making instructions listed on a digital screen. The second focuses on the digital landscape of our personal narratives while drinking, tasting, and contemplating a complimentary cup of tea. For both interactions, the tea is meant to represent the struggle of our true self/desires in our personal narrative. Therefore, as the audience reads the story, the way that the story is read, either through the scrolls and making of tea or via the digital landscape with a finished cup, they are experiencing the story in completely different ways that alter their understanding of it, creating unique emotional experiences.

 

We hope that through the use of digital/physical interactions, we will create an experience that has the audience contemplate their relationship between their true selves/true desires and their perceived selves/perceived desires, as well as introspection on how this struggle shaped who they are.