Tea and Land// Story of Cultivation of Cultivator

Performance -Story Telling - music - dance

Tea and Land performed in Dutch Art Institute at Centrale Fies (Dro, It*ly, Aereptonic Acts. 2024)

How do we form a nation with a plant?

Here we are,

in a middle play (orta oyunu Commedia dell'Arte ) based on non-written text in public spaces around a circle. It is open to imagination, interactions, and improvisation. Yes, those stories are diverse and contain all of us; the audience becomes folk, and folk becomes the audience. Multiple characters enter, in and out, a story formed, spaced around. How was the land shaped with seeds after the change of the ancient seeds? This is your story, folks.

Please take a seed and take a seat,

Here we are, on 1 piece of land, within a nation and a plant. Imagine vast green hills lined up together, forming the landscape around us. We stand on a field near one of those hills, surrounded by more green hills, all cultivated and filled by a Nation. Today, here, all the plants are the same, united in monoculture like a nation-state. How did we end up in here like this?

What happens when you change the seeds? Cultivating a plant means cultivating a society, they say.

Let me tell you a story;

The story of tea and land, as we keep moving and listening around those hills.

One day, someone(s) wants to drink tea, so they decide. The order is given to bring tea seeds to the land. The seeds arrive, and now it is time to change—change the seeds. A change of a land with 1 tea bag. The seeds? The seeds are gone.

The seeds that you carried? , if needed, keep it in the pocket.

Thank you, folk, to memory of all the folks in struggle