Freedom of Movement
To recover, nurture and vindicate the Artist as translator and mediator by ensuring their Freedom of Movement;
Senior contributors of HiHiRi PiPiRi wrote the original copy in our common language (English) in order to affirm our mutual values, express our motivations for dedicating ourselves to the concept of a Transcultural Creative Network, and to continue the important thesis of the late Dr. Deborah Bouchette, Artist Residencies & Artist-Philosophers: a powerful combination posed to bring about a more ethical world.
These following three points were born on the carpet of a breezy living-room in Omaha, Nebraska as our project was called to mature with the addition of a new credential; ie. Hihiri Pipiri becoming a legally recognized 501(c)3 Not-for-profit organization, FoHP.
First in English long-form, with the impending necessity for far-and-wide re-contextualizing translation work; our premise is alive and shape-shifting. Please forgive what is clumsy, any errors overlooked, and join us in good-will with your corrections, suggestions, concept developments, and additions from your mother tongue!
All feedback is most welcome by email to [email protected].
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The first of our 3-part equation (“MOBiLiTY”), expresses the primary motivation felt by HiHiRi collaborators which convinced us to shift our attention from our off-grid playground (a mud-house artist-residency / creative-venue / garden-library in West Bengal) and to take seriously the possibility of becoming a legally recognized organization. We identified state-imposed immobility as a great cause of human suffering and located ourselves, transcultural creative people, as capable of discovering methods to relieve this suffering by working to legitimize Artists with limited or denied access to travel. This perspective situates us in solidarity with migrant communities. Crucial to this position, is a philosophy of Guest-Host reciprocity that does not view permissions to move as only benefiting the individuals in movement but, more significantly, benefitting the communities where they arrive to.
Mutual Reciprocity occurs in academic systems for Masters and Doctorate programs, in which a University may not only fund the tuition of the degree seeker but also, provide additional stipends acknowledging the scholar as an important gain to their community. FoHP seeks to provide the same such dignities for Artist-Researchers who may not relate or have access to this kind of institution - with our aspirations inclined toward village-to-village exchanges between our established “GLocalities.”
- Sophie Ray Lee
“Through mobility, artist-philosophers find that residencies are spaces in which to shed the oppression of polity that usurps imaginative time in daily life.”
- Time Apart Space Away, Deborah Bouchette
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Restoring, building, reimagining infrastructure and educational tools for Creative Sanctuaries, their Communities and Guests;
Restoring, building, reimagining infrastructure and educational tools for Creative Sanctuaries, their Communities and Guests;
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May the Circle be Unbroken
Broken hoops
Mended hoops
Linked rings
Chain Mail
May the circle be Unbroken
Black Elk once had a vision, something like,
"Each seemed to have their own vision that they followed and their own rules... the nation's hoop was broken like a ring of smoke that spreads and scatters... the holy tree seemed dying and all it's birds were flown..."
This vision related to the native tribes of the Oglala Sioux but has been used in describing the collision of cultures upon the Great Plains, the groups that settled therein, many fractured and separated from their roots. Residencies, Artist Sanctuaries, Community Centers can be likened to individual rings, circles whole in and of themselves, yet in their mending, restoration, and construction may be joined together to lend strength and protection to each other and their wearer.
May the Circle be Unbroken…
- Brother Russ Cubrich
“I believe that the ever-emergent community of artist residencies is aesthetic consciousness housing a largely unrecognized potential of a powerful global network of creative imagination, one that can world a better world to counter the negative effects of capitalism’s tendency toward standardizing, which dehumanizes experience.”
- Time Apart Space Away, Deborah Bouchette
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Promoting and coordinating exploratory Performance, Craft and Research of a shared transcultural ethic.
Promoting and coordinating exploratory Performance, Craft and Research of a shared transcultural ethic.
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Written word to spoken word is as sedentary is to nomad. While those fortunate to dig in and stay put produce the material to construct and dominate culture by, those transient travelers who venture past comfort and linger on crossroads leave behind few traces. They are the anonymous voices who write epic traditions into existence, the fairytale bards who interpolate wisdom, the minstrels whose songs trace no origin but last for millennia. Before-yesterday they were the horseback nomads named ‘barbarian’ by walled-city settlers. Yesterday they were the free autochthonous majority named savage non-humans by cannon-fortified imperialists. Today they are many, and carry many names, but their voices are no less stifled. The stray who glide between our artificial borders have always brought cultures together through song, words and movement, choosing diversity over origin, and freedom over safety. Written words may sanctify our political constitutions and charters that keep the collective status quo… but spoken words are the bedtime stories, fairytales and divine incantations that keep our collective hopes and dreams alive.
- Lavrenty Repin
“The combination of empowering artists’ autonomy by providing time and space away from polity while also providing support to a continuous ebb and flow of a mobile and creative population endows both the artists and these communities with the opportunity to transform inter-cultural barriers into multidimensional thresholds of hospitality. The residual effects carry past the residency to help establish a pluralistic consciousness. The question remains whether the nomad-war-machine framework can weather the apparatuses of capture without sacrificing the delicate balance of these characteristics.”
- Time Apart Space Away, Deborah Bouchette
Thank you dear
wordsmiths for your
lingual s'port!
Aranya Banyopahyay, Suraj Batija, Ece Coleman,Chiara Colombi, Russ Cubrich, Selin Eren, Sofia Kovarich, Sophie Ray Lee, Hania Marium Luthufi, Magnus Nilsson, Jani Ojala, Claudia Orozco, Milind Pandit, Sergey Paraketsov, Fernando Gregorio Pedroza, Shil Pon, Iasonas Psarakis, Lavrenty Repin, Lennie Repina, Syed Taufik Riyaz, Ebi Shahbazi, Reiko Shimizu, Subrata Shuvro, Kamil Siedcynski, Prune Wickart, Jill Yao, Mehtap Yilmaz, Piotr Zieliński