freeDimensional

(not a residency)

The goal of freeDimensional is to support culture in the service of free expression, justice and equality.

Mission: freeDimensional advances social justice by hosting activists in art spaces and using cultural resources to strengthen their work.

Guiding Principles: freeDimensional values artists as communicators & vanguards on a range of critical issues and community art spaces as sites of innovation that can provide a range of solutions. By protecting critical voices through safe haven in artist residency apartments and quick-response funding to help avoid danger, we:

• Provide opportunities for threatened culture workers to continue their creative practice;
• Send a message to repressive regimes and people who misuse their power that culture workers will not be silenced without the international community taking note and coming to his or her defense;
• Activate latent activism in the creative sector, which redirects underutilized (and unrelated) resources to affect social change; and
• Sensitize the human rights sector to the important role of creativity in fighting injustice.