Documenting and Tracing

During the last month I was engaged with documenting and witnessing actions from the VR research project Tracing the sugar: Re-mapping and creating new narratives on Gothenburg’s colonial history by Cecilia Lagerström. In search for the remains of the sugar mills in the city, the invited Brazilian artist-researchers Walmeri Ribeiro and Sofia Mussolini developed small actions at KLIPPAN (where the biggest sugar mill was in the nineteen century): While Walmeri’s action focused on creating a sugar itinerary with a clay pot in hands inspired by the so-called “pão de açúcar” (used in the process of producing sugar during the colonial times in Brazil), Sofia placed a series of old images of her family (which come from Ribeirão Preto in São Paulo, where until today are the biggest sugar cane plantations in Brazil) in the ruins of an area of the site. Two gestures which may leave some invisible traces, and which are still to be recollected in a future stadium of the project.