Azucar/Sugar
Closes
Aug 8, 2025Posted on
Jul 16, 2025Event type:
Art , Exhibition , Film , Multidisciplinary ,Price:
FreeVenue:
Toi Poneke Arts CentreAddress:
61/69 Abel Smith street, Te Aro, Wellington, 6011, New ZealandRegion:
National , Wellington ,
Azúcar/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. Azúcar/Sugar is the latest installation from With Lime, the long-standing collaboration between William Franco and Miki Seifert.
Attend our free artist talks:
Cabinets of Conquest: Sugar, Wunderkammer and the Artefacts of Global Trade.
Sat 19 July - 1 - 2pm
Learn how Dr Miki Seifert used the concept of Wunderkammer to explore the connection between sugar, colonisation, global trade and climate change.
Crafting Sweet Resistance: From Mexican Sugar Skulls to Colonial Critique
Sat 26 July - 1 - 2pm
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.
Colonial Appetites: Sugar’s Journey from Royal Tables to Indigenous Communities
Sat 2 August 1 - 2pm
Join Dr Miki Seifert and Dr Arini Loader at ‘The Colonisers’ Banquet Table’