Monument of Sugar is a research into Europe’s subsidized sugar exports. To turn the flow of sugar around, the artists produced a sugar sculpture in Nigeria and shipped it to Europe. A written essay and documentary sequences chart their investigations into the sugar trade and their experiences when producing and transporting the monument.
Long ago, the Rhineland wilderness was divided up and distributed to groups of freeholders in exchange for a small annual fee. Before the marshland could be used, a good drainage system had to be built. A branch of the river was turned into a canal and a system of parallel ditches was dug, running perpendicular to the reclamation work. The parcels of land thus created had a fixed width of thirty rods and a length of three hundred and sixty rods, or six voorlings. A voorling was the distance that could be plowed without having to turn the plough around. A rod contained twelve Rhineland feet. By decree of the King of Holland, the Rhineland foot was fixed at 0.3139465 of a meter.
Long ago, the Rhineland wilderness was divided up and distributed to groups of freeholders in exchange for a small annual fee. Before the marshland could be used, a good drainage system had to be built. A branch of the river was turned into a canal and a system of parallel ditches was dug, running perpendicular to the reclamation work. The parcels of land thus created had a fixed width of thirty rods and a length of three hundred and sixty rods, or six voorlings. A voorling was the distance that could be plowed without having to turn the plough around. A rod contained twelve Rhineland feet. By decree of the King of Holland, the Rhineland foot was fixed at 0.3139465 of a meter.
