At a time when there is a pressing need for new spaces for difficult conversation and new methodologies and language for conversing about the issues that divide us, Rolling Counterpoint is a space for encounter designed to foster dialogue about experiences of division and belonging in contemporary society.
Developed by artist Taro Hattori, Rolling Counterpoint consists of two teahouses: one stationary space installed outdoors on Montalvo Arts Center’s 175-acre public park in Saratoga, California and one mobile teahouse, which is traveling to various cities in the Bay Area in 2017 (Cupertino, San Jose; Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco).
Drawing conceptually on the Japanese teahouse, Hattori seeks to use the platform of Rolling Counterpoint to connect and bridge diverse and often disconnected communities–bringing them together around shared conversation. The artist invites guests to join him for tea and add their voices to a growing collection of perspectives addressing such wide-ranging issues and social concerns as immigration, social exclusion, gentrification, homelessness, and income inequality.
Edited transcripts and video clips from these conversations as well as materials from larger participatory information-gathering sessions are shared on this interactive website.
Rolling Counterpoint is commissioned by the Lucas Artists Program at Montalvo Arts Center, and was developed collaboratively with over ten partners throughout the Bay Area.
We invite you to contribute to this ongoing community conversation!
Developed by artist Taro Hattori, Rolling Counterpoint consists of two teahouses: one stationary space installed outdoors on Montalvo Arts Center’s 175-acre public park in Saratoga, California and one mobile teahouse, which is traveling to various cities in the Bay Area in 2017 (Cupertino, San Jose; Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco).
Drawing conceptually on the Japanese teahouse, Hattori seeks to use the platform of Rolling Counterpoint to connect and bridge diverse and often disconnected communities–bringing them together around shared conversation. The artist invites guests to join him for tea and add their voices to a growing collection of perspectives addressing such wide-ranging issues and social concerns as immigration, social exclusion, gentrification, homelessness, and income inequality.
Edited transcripts and video clips from these conversations as well as materials from larger participatory information-gathering sessions are shared on this interactive website.
Rolling Counterpoint is commissioned by the Lucas Artists Program at Montalvo Arts Center, and was developed collaboratively with over ten partners throughout the Bay Area.
We invite you to contribute to this ongoing community conversation!
