Creative Time Reports: Subtlety Series
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Commemorating Kara Walker’s historic project, Creative Time Reports features poetry, prose and illustrations related to the exhibition’s central themes, from five innovative and internationally renowned writers and artists.
Edwidge Danticat: The Price of Sugar
Award-winning Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat explores labor conditions on contemporary sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic.
Tracy K. Smith: Photo of Sugar Cane Plantation Workers, Jamaica, 1891
Brooklyn-based poet Tracy K. Smith pens a lyrical response to a historic photograph of Jamaican plantation workers.
Ricardo Cortés: The Act of Whitening
Illustrator and writer Ricardo Cortés limns the association between sugar, the slave labor of its historic manufacture, and the Delft-themed iconography of its early distributors, in a series of drawings.
The acclaimed Kenyan writer and performer Shailja Patel examines the ethical and racialized implications of refining sugar.
Jean-Euphèle Milcé: To Drink My Sweet Body
Haitian poet and novelist Jean-Euphèle Milcé imagines the harrowing conditions endured by the sugar-cane workers of his country.