SUGAR, A COSMOLOGY OF WHITENESS

Science Gallery Rotterdam

This online workshop creates an alternative history of the rise of modernity and the spread of colonialism. From a perspective of sugar .

Our first exhibition (UN) REAL is almost coming to an end. But not before we have celebrated this with an online Closing Weekend! Join artist Nadine Botha with her online workshop on Saturday 28 November about her artwork &quot;Sugar, A Cosmology of Whiteness&quot;.The industrialized farming of sugar since the 15th century has not only changed what we eat and how we enjoy it, but has been responsible for the restructuring of our economy, ecology, culture, and even our individual bodies and minds.This online workshop is not about convincing people to stop eating sugar, but creates an alternative history of the rise of modernity and the spread of colonialism. Not from a human perspective, but from the perspective of sugar itself. What if it was the sugar itself that was behind it all? Looking at human history from a non-anthropocentric perspective challenges our political biases. It allows us to see beyond the relation to health , and raises our awareness of reality as a designed vision of the truth.<ul><li>When? Saturday 28 November 2020, 1 pm - 3 pm.</li><li>Via: Zoom. You&#x27;ll receive the link later.</li><li>This workshop will be in English.</li></ul>Nadine Botha is a research designer preoccupied with how unseen systems, such as social, political, economic, and ­cultural, are shaping important aspects of our daily lives. Her artistic practice brings together storytelling, curating, performance, activism and media analysis. Sugar: A Cosmology of Whiteness was launched at the Neuhaus ­exhibition at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Previously, Botha was associate curator of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, A School of Schools. Her project The Politics of Shit won the Gijs Bakker award for best master’s project at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Originally from South Africa, she is now based in Rotterdam.

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