The Tea House- Jacqueline Moulton

Hey babe, what's the scuttlebutt? Here at the Tea House, we want to know. The Tea House is an interdisciplinary art installation as invitation. There is tea in our cups needing to be spilled. Tea—meaning gossip, flavorful and fragrant bits of news—asks us to be vulnerable, to share, to spill. Together, we make meaning of the leaves. This installation is a reclamation of gendered notions of sound, un-relgating systems of language that perform community and connection: gossip, blabbing, spilling, over-sharing, leaning in close and saying what hurts. The Tea House is an invitation to come in, dish, sit, snoop, share. You are invited to snoop in every nook and cranny of the Tea House and in each nook and cranny there lies secrets and gossips and truths and things too hard to say out loud. Participants are also invited to spill their own tea—to write down whatever thumps hiddenly in the heart and to stash it away in order for it to be found by the next visitor. 

Jacqueline Viola Moulton (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and philosophy scholar whose work focuses on public, participatory, and performative poetry practices. Jacqueline runs a creative writing program at Cottonwood Center for the Arts and holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Aesthetics.