Arist as older sister

Every relationship between sisters looks different. I am an older sister of two and I am aware that this relationship might be challenging. In describing this role I will use my personal experience of being and older sister as staring point. It is closely connected with care and care giving challenges patriarchal structures and fosters relational bonds based on empathy, mutual support, and collective responsibility. The role of the older sister transcends traditional familial boundaries to address broader communal and societal needs.

Older sister/younger sister
How many of your ancestor do you not remember at all?
"Autotheory has emerged as a term to describe the practices of engaging with theory, life and art from the perspective of one’s lived experiences; an emergent term, it is very much in the zeitgeist of contemporary feminist and queer feminist cultural production today".

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me as older sister:

I think if my sister feels lonely

I cook food for her

I sometimes steal her creams

I never want to offend her, but

sometimes it happens

we as a sisters grew up together

we go for fries sometimes

me as younger sister:

I rely a lot on my older sister

I have to remind her about myself

I sometimes steal some shirts from her closet

I never feel lonely

we as sisters can always fight over stupid things

we as sisters sometimes we cry together

we as sisters will never stop loving each other

I wish this essay was not a description of the relationship from only one side.
I asked my sister to describe her feelings about our relationship.

I always give a lift to my sister because she doesn't have a license

I align with Suzanne Gordon's assertion that care exists within relationships and is deeply influenced by the surrounding social context.
According to her "caring… is not something that one person does to another. Caring exists in relationships and flourishes or sours depending on the social context".
Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore analyze how feminist craft "displays a materially based, inter-disciplinary and relational care ethic that can move us beyond family and community to relate wider cultural and political stories".
This reflection on care is fostering the sense of community, empathy and responsibility, and I believe that embracing this role as an artist can contribute by challenging exploitative character of capitalist society. Care can also be addressed to other sites, areas, and human and non-human beings.

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Olga Micińska - The Headquarters, 2022-23
Let's look at the construction of a feminist narrative on the example of the "The Headquarters" by Olga Micińska.Her project is not directly related to the biological relationship of sisters but it is based on care and giving visibility to female craftsmanship. According to her website this project: "is a type of political fiction aimed at bringing us closer to something that never existed but could have – actively combining feminism, craftsmanship, and radical artistic performance."
Every room in this exhibition space refer to another kind of responsibilities and emphasizing mutual support. One space is filled with a set of tools, the use of which requires the work of at least two people.

The complexity of the exhibition space reminds me of the complexity of the role of being a sister. What I like in her work is going beyond the individualistic perspective and uniting artists in collaborative endeavors and creating the guild.
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