Peter Sacks
Resistance
Audio Collage
8 September – 29 October 2022
Introduction
Woven together into a vibrant tapestry of readings, this collaborative audio project was curated by Peter Sacks and Jorie Graham. The texts heard below were written over the past 200 years by individuals included in the Resistance series. These excerpts were chosen and read by activists, poets, novelists, journalists, scholars and political leaders whom the artist invited to join the Resistance project. In this way, contemporary figures amplify ideas, experiences, insights, admonitions and emotions they find meaningful, and lend their voices to bringing them urgently to our attention. Assembled in four tracks below, this soundscape awakens powerful vectors connecting past and present, with a view to inspiring the future.
VOLUME I: THE PATH
00:00:09 — John Lewis read by Bryan Stevenson
00:01:25 — Harriet Tubman read by Tracy K. Smith
00:02:12 — Audre Lorde read by Carol Gilligan
00:03:01 — Audre Lorde read by Victoria Chang
00:03:48 — Rosa Parks read by Bryan Stevenson
00:04:34 — Audre Lorde read by Tracy K. Smith
00:06:55 — Audre Lorde read by Victoria Chang
00:07:49 — Gwendolyn Brooks read by Tracy K. Smith
00:08:56 — Martin Luther King Jr. read by Bryan Stevenson
00:10:20 — Nelson Mandela read by Margaret Marshall
00:11:12 — Nelson Mandela read by Kweku Mandela
00:12:42 — Walter Sisulu read by Carolyn Forché
00:14:14 — Stephen Biko read by Sipokazi Madida
00:15:24 — Stephen Biko read by Sipokazi Madida
00:16:26 — Albie Sachs read by Albie Sachs
00:17:45 — Albie Sachs read by Albie Sachs
00:18:56 — Oliver Tambo read by Sipokazi Madida
00:20:09 — Helen Joseph read by Margaret Marshall
00:21:55 — Oliver Tambo read by Sipokazi Madida
00:23:00 — Helen Joseph read by Margaret Marshall
00:24:34 — Sitting Bull read by Joy Harjo
00:27:06 — Wilma Mankiller read by Terry Tempest Williams
00:27:56 — Plenty Coups read by Julian Brave NoiseCat
00:29:34 — Oscar Romero read by Carolyn Forché
00:30:31 — Oscar Romero read by Carolyn Forché
00:31:10 — Oscar Romero read by Bill McKibben
00:32:40 — Federico Garcia Lorca read by Jane Miller
00:34:35 — Martin Buber read by Carolyn Forché
00:35:37 — Nelly Sachs read by Amy Hempel
00:36:31 — Gershom Scholem read by J.M. Coetzee
00:37:46 — Martin Luther King Jr. read by Bryan Stevenson
00:39:13 — Harriet Tubman read by Tracy K. Smith
00:39:45 — Harriet Tubman read by Tracy K. Smith
00:40:29 — Harriet Tubman read by Tracy K. Smith
00:40:57 — Wole Soyinka read by Henry Louis Gates Jr
00:42:52 — Anna Swir read by Amy Hempel
00:43:39 — Anna Swir read by Amy Hempel
00:44:04 — Antonio Machado read by Forrest Gander
00:46:01 — Federico Garcia Lorca read by Elena Ochoa Foster
00:46:56 — Yiannis Ritsos read by Jane Miller
00:47:54 — Anna Akhmatova read by Carolyn Forché
00:48:32 — Anna Akhmatova read by Carolyn Forché
00:49:37 — Anna Akhmatova read by Carolyn Forché
00:50:52 — James Baldwin read by Darren Walker
00:52:04 — James Baldwin read by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
00:52:39 — James Baldwin read by Colm Tóibín
00:53:51 — Frantz Fanon read by Homi Bhabha
00:55:24 — Frantz Fanon read by Claudia Rankine
00:58:47 — Frantz Fanon read by Homi Bhabha
01:00:13 — Frederick Douglass read by Teju Cole
01:02:19 — Langston Hughes read by Danez Smith
VOLUME II: REPORT FROM THE BESIEGED CITY
00:00:09 — Langston Hughes read by Clint Smith
00:00:45 — Hannah Arendt read by Homi Bhabha
00:03:29 — Primo Levi read by Carolyn Forché
00:04:20 — Primo Levi read by Stephen Greenblatt
00:09:26 — Primo Levi read by Teju Cole
00:11:54 — Paul Celan read by Carolyn Forché
00:13:08 — Antonio Gramsci read by Peter Sacks
00:15:12 — Nazim Hikmet read by Victoria Chang
00:16:36 — Nazim Hikmet read by Carolyn Forché
00:19:53 — Paul Celan read by Jorie Graham
00:21:25 — Rosa Luxemburg read by Teju Cole
00:23:39 — Paul Celan read by Carolyn Forché
00:24:48 — Rosa Luxemburg read by Teju Cole
00:26:07 — Liu Xiaobo read by Julian Gewirtz
00:27:19 — Missak Manouchian read by Askold Melnyczuk
00:31:03 — Serhij Zhadan read by Dwayne Reginald Betts
00:32:54 — Mykola Khvylovy read by Timothy Snyder
00:34:07 — Volodymyr Zelensky read by Volodymyr Zelenskyy
00:35:04 — Zbigniew Herbert read by Ewa Chrusciel
00:36:46 — Yun Dong-Ju read by Jack Jung
00:38:47 — Simone Weil read by Elaine Scarry
00:40:30 — Serhiy Zhadan read by Dwayne Reginald Betts
00:41:50 — Imre Kertész read by Carolyn Forché
00:43:51 — Bertrand Russell read by Fareed Zakari
00:44:30 — Vaclav Havel read by James Lapine
00:45:10 — Osip Mandelstam read by Jane Miller
00:45:54 — Osip Mandelstam read by Teju Cole
00:47:30 — Nadezhda Mandelstam read by Carolyn Forché
00:48:26 — Franz Kafka read by J.M. Coetzee
00:49:34 — Czeslaw Milosz read by Mark Danner
00:50:34 — Czeslaw Milosz read by Ewa Chrusciel
00:51:45 — Nasrin Sotoudeh read by Olivia Coleman
00:52:35 — Alexei Navalny read by Alexei Navalny
00:53:53 — Mahatma Gandhi read by Bill McKibben
00:55:11 — Jawaharlal Nehru read by Fareed Zakaria
00:56:03 — Marianne Moore read by Forrest Gander
00:56:55 — Franz Kafka read by Hans Ulrich Obrist
00:58:50 — Miklós Radnóti read by Jane Miller
00:59:53 — Jorge Luis Borges read by Estrella de Diego
01:00:30 — Miguel De Unamuno read by Carolyn Forché
01:01:27 — Miguel De Unamuno read by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
01:02:40 — Mahmoud Darwish read by Carolyn Forché
01:05:51 — Albert Camus read by Claire Messud
01:07:08 — Robert Desnos read by Carolyn Forché
01:09:50 — W.B. Yeats read by Colm Tóibín
01:13:16 — Zbigniew Herbert read by Peter Sacks
VOLUME III: PURGATORIO
00:00:08 — Zbigniew Herbert read by Peter Sacks
00:04:41 — Ludwig Wittgenstein read by Carolyn Forché
00:06:10 — Raul Zurita read by Forrest Gander
00:08:04 — W.B. Yeats read by Colm Tóibín
00:09:56 — Constantin Cavafy read by Carl Phillips
00:11:13 — Samuel Beckett read by J.M. Coetzee
00:13:04 — Walter Benjamin read by Homi Bhabha
00:14:17 — Walter Benjamin read by Homi Bhabha
00:15:46 — Marcel Proust read by Peter Sacks
00:17:37 — Marcel Proust read by Jesse McCarthy
00:18:31 — Elizabeth Bishop read by Tracy K. Smith
00:24:14 — Virginia Woolf read by Louis Menand
00:25:13 — Virginia Woolf read by Kamran Javadizadeh
00:27:46 — Virginia Woolf read by Claire Messud
00:28:38 — Virginia Woolf read by Carol Gilligan
00:29:26 — Simone Weil read by Elaine Scarry
00:30:27 — Romare Bearden read by Peter Sacks
00:31:58 — Paul Cézanne read by Peter Sacks
00:33:20 — W.H. Auden read by Fareed Zakaria
00:34:04 — W.H. Auden read by Julian Gewirtz
00:34:37 — Gustav Mahler read by Simon Rattle
00:36:29 — Zora Neale Hurston read by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
00:37:33 — Seamus Heaney read by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
00:39:05 — Lu Xun read by Yangyang Chen
00:39:48 — Liu Xia read by Jorie Graham
00:41:24 — Pablo Neruda read by John Kerry
00:42:27 — Miguel Hernandez read by Jane Miller
00:44:55 — Edward Thomas by Robert Macfarlane
00:46:14 — Frank O’Hara read by Julian Gewirtz
00:47:33 — James Merrill read by Kamran Javadizadeh
00:48:29 — James Merrill read by Kamran Javadizadeh
00:49:53 — Albert Camus read by Elizabeth Hawes
00:50:27 — Machado De Assis read by Jorie Graham
00:51:27 — Anton Chekhov read by Carl Phillips
00:53:20 — Machado De Assis read by Jesse McCarthy
00:55:05 — Antonio Machado read by Carolyn Forché
00:55:52 — Czeslaw Milosz read by Claire Messud
00:57:17 — Pierre Reverdy read by Rosanna Warren
00:58:11 — Cesar Vallejo read by Maria Gomez Lara
00:59:52 — Zbigniew Herbert by Peter Sacks
VOLUME IV: THE EARTH
00:00:11 — Davi Kopenawa read by Jorie Graham
00:02:00 — Wangari Maathai read by Terry Tempest Williams
00:03:04 — Davi Kopenawa read by Jorie Graham
00:05:17 — Davi Kopenawa read by Jorie Graham
00:06:25 — Rachel Carson read by Matt Aucoin
00:07:42 — Rachel Carson read by John Kerry
00:08:07 — Rachel Carson read by John Kerry
00:08:52 — Rachel Carson read by John Kerry
00:09:55 — Rachel Carson read by Elaine Scarry
00:11:40 — Rachel Carson read by Matt Aucoin
00:12:36 — Rachel Carson read by Elaine Scarry
00:14:10 — Rachel Carson read by Matt Aucoin
00:15:23 — Rachel Carson read by Bill McKibben
00:16:38 — Rachel Carson read by Michael Pollan
00:20:22 — Wilma Mankiller read by Joy Harjo
00:21:01 — Wilma Mankiller read by Joy Harjo
00:21:32 — Sojourner Truth read by Tracy K. Smith
00:22:21 — Sojourner Truth read by Tracy K. Smith
00:22:57 — Rosa Parks read by Carolyn Forché
00:26:14 — Langston Hughes read by Darren Walker
00:27:06 — W.E.B. Du Bois read by Clint Smith
00:29:03 — C.L.R. James read by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
00:31:30 — Aimé Césaire read by Uzodinma Iweala
00:33:06 — James Baldwin read by Uzodinma Iweala
00:35:32 — Emmeline Pankhurst read by Emily Galvin-Almanza
00:38:45 — Emmeline Pankhurst read by Honor Moore
00:39:49 — Emma Goldman read by Jorie Graham
00:40:34 — Emma Goldman read by Adam Hochschild
00:42:41 — Susan B. Anthony read by Jorie Graham
00:44:20 — Emma Goldman read by Carol Gilligan
00:44:46 — Bernadette Devlin read by Jorie Graham
00:45:31 — Constance Markiewicz read by Jorie Graham
00:46:10 — Constance Markiewicz read by Jorie Graham
00:46:44 — Anna Akhmatova read by Nicholas Jenkins
00:47:50 — Harriet Tubman read by Carol Gilligan
00:48:09 — Frida Kahlo read by Carolyn Forché
00:48:48 — Frida Kahlo read by Gannit Ankori
00:49:03 — Frida Kahlo read by Gannit Ankori
00:49:25 — Audre Lorde read by Robyn Schiff
00:50:31 — Bessie Head read by Dorothy Driver
00:51:10 — Toni Morrison read by Carol Gilligan
00:53:17 — Toni Morrison read by Carol Gilligan
00:54:58 — Virginia Woolf read by Robyn Schiff
00:55:20 — Hannah Arendt read by Carol Gilligan
00:55:49 — Simone Weil read by Siri Hustvedt
00:56:10 — Albertina Sisulu read by Margaret Marshal
00:56:34 — Cesar Chavez read by Michael Pollan
00:57:43 — Seamus Heaney read by Bill Shipsey
01:00:15 — W.E.B. Dubois by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
01:01:29 — W.E.B. Dubois by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
01:03:06 — John Lewis read by Drew Faust
01:05:03 — John Lewis read by Carol Gilligan
01:05:30 — John Lewis read by Bryan Stevenson
01:06:06 — Rafael Alberti read by Philip Levine
