Ten Thousand Suns: 24th Biennale of Sydney is the catalogue that positions celebration itself as a curatorial method — a political act drawn from histories of collective resistance, First Nations knowledge, and refusal of apocalyptic thinking.
About This Book
Artistic directors Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero structured the 24th Biennale of Sydney around a proposition that joy and collective thriving are legitimate responses to injustice. This catalogue extends that argument into book form, assembling artists, essayists, and thinkers from across the globe to trace thematic threads that run from the resurgence of First Nations technologies to the history of Islam in Australia, Queer resilience, Carnivale, and the atomic era as a lens on today's climate emergency. Rather than a conventional survey publication, the volume functions as a parallel exhibition — a gathering of multiple histories and voices that resist any single interpretive frame. Essential reading for those working across contemporary art, curatorial practice, and postcolonial discourse.
Key Features
- 362 pages of full-colour artist documentation, essays, and thematic texts
- Artistic direction by Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero; texts by Te Kuru O Te Marama Dewes, Nils-Aslak Valkepää, John Pule, Alleen Jayamanne, Samia Khatun, Greg Dvorak, Nevil Shute, Margaret Cavendish, Eric Michaels, Karlie Noon & Krystal De Napoli, Elyas Alavi, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, VNS Matrix, Thenmozhi Soundararajah, Amelia Groom, and Brontez Purnell
- Published by Biennale of Sydney, ISBN 9780958040334
What You'll Discover
- How celebration functions as curatorial methodology rather than sentiment — a mode of collective resistance with political and cultural weight
- The resurgence of First Nations technologies and knowledges as active, living frameworks within contemporary art practice
- The atomic era reframed as a precedent for human-driven climate alteration, set against a present-day refusal of apocalyptic futurity
- The international expression of Carnivale and Queer resilience as interconnected histories of coming together across difference and injustice
About the Author
Inti Guerrero and Cosmin Costinas served as the artistic directors of the 24th Biennale of Sydney, jointly shaping the exhibition's conceptual framework around celebration, collective memory, and resistance. Their curatorial vision draws together voices and perspectives from across the Pacific, Asia, the Middle East, and beyond.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 362
- Dimensions: 21.5 x 29.5 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780958040334
- Publisher: Biennale of Sydney
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Curators, contemporary art practitioners, researchers in postcolonial and Indigenous studies, and collectors of major international biennale publications.