Category: Subtlety Series
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Jean-Euphèle Milcé:
To Drink My Sweet BodyMay 9, 2014 -
Poet and novelist Jean-Euphèle Milcé evokes the harrowing condition of cultivating sugar from the perspective of a Haitian plantation worker, on the occasion of Kara Walker’s A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory. More -
Shailja Patel: Unpour
May 8, 2014 -
Writer and performer Shailja Patel dissects the ethical and racialized implications of refining sugar, on the occasion of Kara Walker’s A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory. More -
Ricardo Cortés: The Act of Whitening
May 7, 2014 -
Writer and illustrator Ricardo Cortés presents a series of drawings referencing sugar, the slave labor central to its historic manufacture and the blue delft iconography of its early distributors. More -
Tracy K. Smith: Photo of Sugar Cane Plantation Workers, Jamaica, 1891
May 6, 2014 -
Poet Tracy K. Smith responds to a historic photograph of Jamaican sugar plantation workers, on the occasion of Kara Walker’s A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory. More -
Edwidge Danticat: The Price of Sugar
May 5, 2014 -
To accompany artist Kara Walker’s first large-scale public project, A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory from May 10 to July 6, novelist Edwidge Danticat explores labor conditions on contemporary sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic. More