Echoes of Tea takes the tea-making culture of Fuyuan Tea Factory in Longtan’s Hakka community as its starting point. Environmental sounds gathered from tea production and everyday life are edited and woven into an album Read more
Echoes of Tea takes the tea-making culture of Fuyuan Tea Factory in Longtan’s Hakka community as its starting point. Environmental sounds gathered from tea production and everyday life are edited and woven into an album of local memory. The work approaches the cultural history of tea through listening, bringing together the rhythms of labour, traces of daily life, and changes in the environment to sculpt a tangible sense of place.
Tea is more than a taste; it carries memories of encounters between the body and the land. Through recording and recomposing, familiar everyday sounds become ways to rediscover Longtan’s tea industry and Hakka life, allowing local history to echo in the act of listening.
Tea is more than a taste; it carries memories of encounters between the body and the land. Through recording and recomposing, familiar everyday sounds become ways to rediscover Longtan’s tea industry and Hakka life, allowing local history to echo in the act of listening.
