Open Studio: Dirk van Lieshout

This summer artist Dirk van Lieshout workes and lives in Het Vijfde Seizoen. Van Lieshout develops his work in relation to a location and uses everyday habits in a new way. His installations and performances shed new light on the existing surroundings and rituals.

In Het Vijfde Seizoen Van Lieshout examines the traditional use of tea drinking and the social interaction arising from this.Together with the patients of the mental health care organization Altrecht he workes on a 'teabike'. Van Lieshout invites patients to cycle and drink homemade tea. The ingredients for the tea are gathered in the woody surroundings of the residency.

The studio house of Het Vijfde Seizoen serves as a laboratory during his stay: the models, drawings and videos of the workingprocess and the collection of fresh and dried ingredients for the tea can be seen here. In the garden there is a tea-paviljon and there a various tea bikes.