Líqiū Tea Ceremony by Sōbo Mulan Sun

On 8 August, MEP will host its first tea ceremony event, led by Sōbo Mulan Sun, architect ETH and tea master of the Urasenke Tea School.

Taking place on the day of Lìqiū — the beginning of autumn in the traditional East Asian solar calendar — the ceremony will unfold as a seasonal tea gathering, reflecting on the subtle transition from summer heat towards the first signs of autumn.

For this occasion, Sōbo Mulan Sun will respond directly to the spatial atmosphere of MEP and to the current exhibition ALL INSIDE (for E.K.) by Zurich-based artist Patric Sandri. Within the contemporary setting of the exhibition, she will create a small, mobile tea room — a temporary spatial structure in which architecture, tea, movement and perception meet.

Rather than presenting tea ceremony as a fixed tradition, this event approaches it as a living spatial practice. Through carefully choreographed gestures, objects, light, silence and…