Sunday's event is the culmination of a Goddard College graduate school residency, entitled "Embodied Imagination: Decolonizing the Present & Unraveling Histories". The event will be led by two artist friends, JuPong Lin and Mona Sheber, whose "Peace Birds Project" grew out of a shared desire to transform the agony of witnessing atrocities happening around the world.
The Peace Bird Project installations incorporate paperfolding, evolving from a 2016 poem called "1000 Gifts of Decolonial Love" that embedded instructions for folding the crane. It became a videopoem and then community-engaged performances and installations, and continues to evolve in the form of this transnational peace birds project.
JuPong Lin: "Our people came from lineages of occupation and struggle for sovereignty, from Palestine and from Taiwan. One of us wrote of "a desire to shift the stuckness, sadness, despair & loss through the need to make, to make meaning out of hopelessness & to make a reminder message to instill peace within myself & my many communities. I am deeply & personally affected by what is happening in the middle east, the land once known as the holyland. We are starting a movement: hundreds & hundreds of people sharing in the folding of thousands & thousands of doves & cranes. Will you join us in starting this movement in your own circles?"
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