Pouring Tea Until It Is All Evaporated - Jingwei Bu

Next date: Saturday, 14 February 2026 | 11:00 AM to 01:00 PM

Pouring Tea Until It Is All Evaporated performance

Saturday 11 October 2025 | 5:00pm – 5:30pm 

Delivered as part of Bundoora Homestead Opening Event

As part of Rest Time, artist Jingwei Bu will give a durational performance in which tea is poured as a single repetitive action until the tea has evaporated. For Bu, the methodical process of a repetitious action echoes the meditative state of Chan Buddhism – centralising one’s attention to process and in turn finding inner peace. The residue of the performance (stacks of tea-stained paper and teacups) will remain in the exhibition.

Free to attend, all welcome. Bookings are not required. Visitors are welcome to drop in and out during the activation.

 

Pouring Tea Until It Is All Evaporated interactive performance

Saturday 14 February 2026 | 11:00am- 1:00pm

Jingwei Bu invites visitors to sit down and pour tea, with guidance, in a practice of mindfulness and meditation. 

For the artist, the repetitious action of pouring tea echoes the meditative state of Chan Buddhist philosophy – centralising one’s attention to process and in turn finding inner peace.  

Free to attend, all welcome. Bookings are not required. Visitors are welcome to drop in and out during the activation. 

 

Explore Jingwei Bu's artwork in Rest Time showing at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre until Sat 14 February 2026.

Opening hours: Wed- Fri: 11am–4pm

Saturday: 10am–4pm

About the Facilitator

Jingwei Bu is a Chinese Australian artist who lives and works on Kaurna land in Tarntanya/Adelaide. With a practice spanning intuitive drawing, moving image, performance and installation, she explores the concept of time as a collaborator – as the subject of her work, and as a medium in itself. Influenced by Buddhist Chan philosophy and Taoist thought, her work is responsive, experimental, and participatory, with a process of making driven by profound engagement with chosen materials and risk-taking.

https://www.jingweibu.com/

This public program is proudly supported by the City of Darebin's Community Grants Program.

Getting here

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Please note: general photography and short videos (for social media) will be recorded at this event for promotional use only and to document this event internally. If you prefer not to be photographed, please let a member of staff know once you arrive.

Image credit: Jingwei Bu. Pouring Tea Until It Is All Evaporated 2023. Photo: Havård Sagen. 

When

Location

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, 7 Prospect Hill Dr, Bundoora, 3083, View Map