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Azúcar/Sugar
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, 61/69 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
What is the connection between sugar, colonisation, global trade and climate change?
Azucar/Sugar is an explorative gallery experience that uses sugar sculptures, videos and digital art to trace how European and US conquest terraformed the environment from a living entity that encompassed the living spirits of the land, water, plants, animals and humans into an inert repository of resources to be harvested and harnessed for profit. Azucar/Sugar is the latest installation from With Lime, the long-standing collaboration between William Franco and Miki Seifert.
Public programming: artist talks Azúcar/Sugar With Lime: Miki Seifert and William Franco
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, 61/69 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
Title: Wunderkammern (cabinets of curiosity)
In the first of three artist’s talk about Azúcar/Sugar, the latest installation from With Lime, learn how Dr Miki Seifert used the concept of Wunderkammer to explore the connection between sugar, colonisation, global trade and climate change. Arising in mid-sixteenth-century Europe, Wunderkammern, or cabinets of curiosities, put the many kinds of art and natural objects wrought by European colonisation and foreign trade on indulgent display.
Dr Seifert will be joined by Dr April Henderson who will talk about the impact of sugar, colonisation and global trade in the Pacific.
Public programming: artist talks Azúcar/Sugar With Lime: Miki Seifert and William Franco
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, 61/69 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
Title: From sugar skulls to giant sugar cubes
In the second of three artist’s talk about Azúcar/Sugar, the latest installation from With Lime, hear about Dr William Franco’s journey from travelling in Mexico to learn how to make Mexican sugar skulls for Dia de Muertos to exploring the connection between sugar and colonisation of the Americas to expanding the boundaries of this traditional method of sugar art.
Public programming: artist talks Azúcar/Sugar With Lime: Miki Seifert and William Franco
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, 61/69 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
Title: Sugar: from aristocratic subtleties to global commodity
In the third of three artist’s talk about Azúcar/Sugar, the latest installation from With Lime, join Dr Miki Seifert and Dr Arini Loader at ‘The Colonisers’ Banquet Table’. Dr Seifert will talk about how sugar was transformed from an exotic luxury item into a global ubiquity. Dr Loader will use te reo Māori as a gateway to talk about sugar’s associated health and societal issues along with alcohol and other colonial introductions.