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24/6/2002

Barby Asante

The Showroom (old venue), London

Journey into the East will consider Britain's colonial past in India, Africa and China. Along with other assets produced and exported from these countries, tea was a major economic commodity. While the impact of colonialism can still be felt in India and some African countries, the origins of tea have become largely forgotten in British culture with drinkers of the beverage rarely considering its cross cultural heritage.


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Journey into the East

Barby Asante is a London-based artist whose work offers its audience interactive experiences. Her recent projects include I Accept Your Image. I am You, at 198 Gallery, Brixton. This exhibition challenged media images of beauty by drawing out the performative instincts of the project's participants.

Journey into the East will consider Britain's colonial past in India, Africa and China. Along with other assets produced and exported from these countries, tea was a major economic commodity. While the impact of colonialism can still be felt in India and some African countries, the origins of tea have become largely forgotten in British culture with drinkers of the beverage rarely considering its cross cultural heritage.

Asante will explore the broader cultural significance of tea by referencing methods of display and taxonomy applied to museum collections, as well as teashops. Asante will also offer a personal critique that will include journals of journeys she made, acting as an amateur Ethnographer, through the East End of London and video portraits of the artist's friends, family and colleagues, showing their own idiosyncratic tea rituals.

As part of Journey into the East, Asante will create the essence of a teashop within The Showroom where people can come to gather their thoughts, or meet others over a cup of tea.

During the project the "teashop" will evolve into a "salon" on Saturday afternoons, hosting a series of talks that will look at colonialism, ethnographic practice and British identity.

The speakers will include Barby Asante, Jean-Paul Martinon independent curator and lecturer at Goldsmiths College and Shaheen Merali artist and lecturer at Central St. Martins.
Through these discussions the wider cultural ramifications of this seemingly straight-forward drink will be revealed.

For further information please contact Kirsty Ogg or Andy Marsh on 020 8983 4115.

Journey into the East will be Barby Asante's first major solo show.

Image: Barby Asante, Wig Therapy

Opening 25 June 19.00 ­ 21.00hrs

Wednesday - Sunday 13.00 ­ 18.00hrs

The Showroom is financially supported by London Arts. Project supported by R. Twining and Company Ltd.

Mary-Jane Aladren, Alice Angus, Claire Barclay, Iwona Blazwick, Louisa Buck, Paul Collett, Peter Cross, Zeyad Dajani, Laura Emsley, ezppl, Nick Ferguson, Rose Finn-Kelcey, FlatPack001, Frieze, David Gilmour, Margot Heller, Claire Hooper, Matthew Hunt, Sue Jones, Jane Lee, Paul Nicholson, Campbell & Mairi Ogg, Julia Peyton-Jones, Alison Raftery, Simon Starling, Jane Stringfellow, Clare Thornton, David Thorp, Three Day Weekend, Transmission Gallery, Catherine Ugwu, Grant Watson and Gilda Williams are all actively supporting the work of the gallery by joining The Showroom's Friends Scheme.

Lothar Götz's project Forever Young, will be opening at the Chisenhale on the same evening 18.30 to 20.30 hrs.

The Showroom
44 Bonner Road London E2 9JS.
T. 020 8983 4115 F. 020 8983 4115.
Nearest tube Bethnal Green on the Central Line. Buses 26, 48, 55, 106, 253. Overground to Cambridge Heath.

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