Chanoyu

Quotes from Okakuras The Book of Tea are a connecting tissue and the tea ceremony is a dramatic scene of juxtaposing personal and public space in the video work of Sanja Iveković and Dalibor Martinis Opposed to the stylized and highly spiritualmeditative dimension of the Japanese ritual the omnipresent background of its metaphorically impregnated and pseudonarrative staging of the Croatian artists is a TV image The order of objects and the peace of the tea drinkers is penetrated by chaos the calm ritual is turning into a drama