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Klingon Tea Ceremony 2015 (Ito, Stuttgart, Germany, Photo: Peter Granser)

Participatory Performance by Fukuda Megumi + Echo Ho: Klingon Tea Ceremony

  • performance
  • workshop
2025
12
／
21
Sun
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery B-1
  • 10:30-10:50
  • 10:50-11:10
  • 14:00-14:20
  • 14:20-14:40

Fukuda Megumi, Tea Bowl for Klingon Tea Ceremony, 2019 ©Fukuda Megumi

In mocaken “About Bodies” program, we will hold the Klingon Tea Ceremony using the Tea Bowl for Klingon Tea Ceremony, exhibited in the Touch, Untangle, Tones! exhibition.

This participatory performance is inspired by a scene from the American science fiction drama “Star Trek.” In this tea ceremony, one Earthling and one Klingon take part in a ritual of profound philosophy. Tea is served, yet for the Earthling it may potentially be poisonous. Still, the two choose to share the tea together. Since 2014, Fukuda Megumi and Echo Ho have presented this performance in various locations across Germany.
The Tea Bowl for Klingon Tea Ceremony was created for two people to share a single cup of tea, but its form makes drinking anything but easy. Participants will experience the tea ceremony in a tea room prepared by Fukuda and Ho, using this challenging vessel.


*Conducted in Japanese.
*Each tea set is shared by two people. Individual registration is also possible.
*If you require sign language interpretation or any other arrangements to participate, please contact us in advance.

◉Artist's Words

“In this year marking 80 years since the end of the war, in a time full of uncertainties, how can we discover and forge trust and coexistence with others of different backgrounds? That is our question. Within an imagined tea room/garden where sounds, scents, and objects of diverse origins intersect, what kind of flavor and spiritual world will be reflected in the shared ‘tea’?”

—Fukuda Megumi

Performer's Profile

Fukuda Megumi
After completing the Graduate School of Art at Hiroshima City University in 2001, she moved to Germany. Currently based in her hometown of Hiroshima, she is engaged in art production and education. Based on her interest in themes such as the relationship between nature and artifice, memory of place, the individual and society, and life and death, she works in a variety of expressive media. She also presides over Yellow River College, a collective that investigates and experiments with lifestyles born from a relationship with nature, using his grandparents' abandoned house as a stage for thought experiments.

Echo Ho
An artist, composer, and researcher from Beijing, China, now based in Germany and active internationally. Her practice explores the intersections of art, philosophy, culture, and technology, seeking unique forms of expression emerging from these crossings. Combining the guqin, a Chinese traditional instrument with a history of nearly three thousand years, and contemporary technologies, she creates works that range from the guqin’s meditative sounds to contemporary noise music, from ancient philosophy to AI, reflecting the ever-changing world.
Performers
Fukuda Megumi, Echo Ho (Echo Ho may participate online)
Venue
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery B-1
Capacity
About 6 participants (3 pairs) per session
*Reservation required, selection will be made in case of oversubscription.
Price
Free
Eligibility
Anyone

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Open Program: mocaken Exhibition Touch, Untangle, Tones!

2025.9.27(Sat) — 2026.1.12(Mon)

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