Monument of Sugar
How to use artistic means to elude trade barriers
text and 16mm stills by Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan

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Publication

Paris : Van Brummelen & De Haan, 2007

Scope

37 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.

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Published on the occasion of 'Just in Time', Voorstel tot Gemeentelijke Kunstaankopen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 01.12.2006-11.03.2007. Monument of Sugar: How to Use Artistic Means to Elude Trade Barriers explores subsidized economy, the globalized sugar market, and how artistic practice can disrupt and reverse economic policies. Upon the discovery of anti-competitive policies set by the European Union to protect its native sugar production, and the detrimental impact of this on other countries, van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan staged an intervention. Their goal was to work around EU restrictions on sugar importation by turning European sugar dumped into Nigeria into sculptures, and returning it as an artistic product: a Monument of Sugar.

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Person as subject

Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan

Keywords

film , video , colonisation , installation , sculpture , aesthetics - critical aesthetics , economy

Location

Cabinet 1 - 6: Kunstenaars

Extra themes

Criticism of Neoliberalism

Remarks