In Poor Tastes Good

An installation shot showing a table with sight plates on it, a neon sign, a tv monitor, and a pink pedistal with two record players on it.
A pink pedistal with two record players. On the floor behind it are two monitors with videos of records spinning.
A neon sign that says "In poor tastes" lit up and "tastes good" is not lit. To the right is a video monitor with broken glass.

In Poor Tastes Good explores the politics and history of sugar, examining moments of bitterness found therein. I focus on the history of beet sugar, which was introduced to the United States as an abolitionist tactic and is the subject of recent labor struggles in the upper Midwest. Archival materials help me explore the transformation of sugar from sweetness to something else—a sticky mess within which we get stuck.

Commissioned by the Art(ists) on the Verge program by Northern Lights, exhibited at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN. Read more about the project here.