Weeds are Herbs: Botanic Arts of Foraging, Classifying, and Cooking

Volume 15, Issue 3

As environmentalists, artists, and foragers, Zo Lin and Tiffany Lay go by the name "Weed Day”(維草稍慢),the word Day” being a homophone of the Taiwanese word for "tea" (tê). Founded in 2014, Weed Day advocates that weeds are part of the nature around us and has launched various workshops about tea-making with weeds, notably at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab. The two artists were also invited to hold an on-site workshop at the Taipei Biennial 2020. Their recent art exhibitions include "Unusual Dishes" (Kaohsiung, 2019), "Ki-pataw: Witches-Brewed Tea" (Taipei, 2019), and "Nutured by Mother Earth" (Taichung, 2020).

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