SUGAR WRITING

The Sugar Project’s community engagement events addressed the relationship between women as commodity, gender violence, gender inequality and oppression, and the legacy of women as property. During these public events community members are prompted to “Imagine what the world would be like: if there was no more gender violence, if commercial sexual exploitation didn’t exist, if mommies and daddies and boys and girls were all equal, or if patriarchy didn’t exist. The text generated by the public was written on the ground in granulated sugar as it was collected, creating temporary time-based visual art installations of community voices at each site. Collected sugar-writing text was recreated for the exhibition in a site-specific design at Oxbow Gallery, linking the universal connections between commodity, violence, inequality and oppression through artistic metaphor and real life voices.

 

Participating sugar writing organizations are: Seattle University, The Organization for Prostitution Survivors, Union Gospel Mission’s Hope Place Shelter, Bellwether Biennial Exhibition and Art Walk, Seattle’s Amistad School, Horn of Africa Youth Sevices and ArtXchange.