STEPSISTER PRESS: “Invitation to Tea: A Tea Project Archive & Recipe Book” Edited by Aaron Hughes & Amber Ginsburg

Contemporary ArtVeteran ArtRecipes
Written By Michael Workman

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Tea is something that we all share. —Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánamo torture survivor

Invitation to Tea compiles 48 tea recipes, stories, and traditions, one for each of the countries that have had citizens extralegally held at the US military prison in Guantánamo. Highlighting the resistance of the people imprisoned there — 780 since 2001 — the recipes are paired with images of porcelain cast Styrofoam cups inscribed with flowers, inspired by stories of these men carving into Styrofoam cups as a form of expression, survival, and resistance. Again and again, these men made a mark, created beauty, and asserted their humanity, undermining the carceral logic of Guantánamo. The tea recipes in this book, which vary from sweet and milky to astringent and spicy, are a celebration of this resistance and traditions passed down from generation to generation — traditions of comfort, medicine, generosity, and solidarity.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Michael Rakowitz, Aliya Hana Hussain, Laura Pitter, and Erika Rappaport

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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