Sister Outsider & Reader Set – 2 Books

The key texts of an influential feminist and a volume of art theory texts published for the Biennale Matter of Art 2024, together for a discounted price.

Sister Outsider is the seminal work of Audre Lorde, one of the most influential feminist writers and thinkers of the 20th century, a self-described black lesbian, mother, fighter, and poet. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde addresses different types of intersecting oppressions based on gender, race, age, sexuality, or class, and advocates for social difference as a means for action and change. Her incisive, relentless, and lyrical prose resonates more than thirty years after its first publication. It reflects struggle but ultimately offers a message of hope. These groundbreaking texts are, in Lorde's own words, a call to "never turn a blind eye to the horror, to the chaos that is black, that is creative, that is feminine, that is dark, that is rejected, that is chaotic, that is..."

Sowing Unrest – the Biennale Reader was published on the occasion of the third Biennale Matter of Art. With newly commissioned as well as republished essays, conversations, poems, and artistic contributions, it grafts the two curatorial threads of the biennale—Aleksei Borisionok’s interest in workers’ movements and Katalin Erdődi’s focus on rural change—in order to talk about the past, present, and future of political movements across the rural–urban divide. How do people in rural areas organize to effect change in society? How can people strike and achieve their political demands? How can care be organized as a basis for solidarity and mutual aid? We are curious about the various ways in which unrest—a state of dissatisfaction, disturbance, and agitation—can grow in unexpected places.

Texts: Kateryna Aliinyk, Aleksei Borisionok, Ramona Duminicioiu, Katalin Erdődi, Fernando García-Dory, Kateřina Kolářová, Tomasz Rakowski, Marta Romankiv, Galina Rymbu, Olia Sosnovskaya, Alex Toshkov, Tomáš Uhnák, Maja Vusilović

Visual Essays: Orla Barry, eeefff, Katheryna Lysovenko, Tamás Kaszás