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-== Artists' Transience ==+====Artists in Transience====
  
 by Dougald Hine by Dougald Hine
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 <blockquote>I am thinking about Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Storyteller’, the two archetypes he describes: the storyteller who travels and brings the stories from elsewhere, and the storyteller who stays put and holds the stories of a particular place. How do we learn to do both things – to move on, and to stay put – with greater awareness of their effect on ourselves and on others? -- Dougald Hine</blockquote> <blockquote>I am thinking about Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Storyteller’, the two archetypes he describes: the storyteller who travels and brings the stories from elsewhere, and the storyteller who stays put and holds the stories of a particular place. How do we learn to do both things – to move on, and to stay put – with greater awareness of their effect on ourselves and on others? -- Dougald Hine</blockquote>
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   * The Dark Mountain Project blog: http://dark-mountain.net/blog/residing/   * The Dark Mountain Project blog: http://dark-mountain.net/blog/residing/
  
-=== Journeyers and Guilds ===+===Journeyers and Guilds===
  
 In the guilds of the middle ages, a journeyman was someone who had completed his apprenticeship and was competent in his craft, but had not yet risen to the level of master. The word could be misleading – “journey” is actually “journée”, referring to the status of a day-labourer – yet there is a long tradition of the wandering journeyman, moving from place to place to learn more about how his craft is being practiced. In parts of Europe, this continues to the present day. In the guilds of the middle ages, a journeyman was someone who had completed his apprenticeship and was competent in his craft, but had not yet risen to the level of master. The word could be misleading – “journey” is actually “journée”, referring to the status of a day-labourer – yet there is a long tradition of the wandering journeyman, moving from place to place to learn more about how his craft is being practiced. In parts of Europe, this continues to the present day.
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 This invitation led to more questions than answers: what do we mean when we use the word “resilience”? What aspects of our situation does it bring into view, and what aspects might it obscure? What skills might the members of such a guild have in common? This invitation led to more questions than answers: what do we mean when we use the word “resilience”? What aspects of our situation does it bring into view, and what aspects might it obscure? What skills might the members of such a guild have in common?
  
-=== Culture and Resilience ===+===Culture and Resilience===
  
 Within the range of possibilities these questions offered, I chose to focus on what I have tended to call deep cultural resilience. As a starting point, I wrote, perhaps resilience is best understood as the capacity to endure. Within the range of possibilities these questions offered, I chose to focus on what I have tended to call deep cultural resilience. As a starting point, I wrote, perhaps resilience is best understood as the capacity to endure.
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 I am particularly interested in the role that culture plays in this: culture in the narrow sense of the arts – because I suspect that those who have dedicated their lives to their creative work have useful lessons for how we make a good job of living through difficult times – but also culture in the broader anthropological sense, the ways of being and doing and seeing which give shape to life in a particular place and time. I am particularly interested in the role that culture plays in this: culture in the narrow sense of the arts – because I suspect that those who have dedicated their lives to their creative work have useful lessons for how we make a good job of living through difficult times – but also culture in the broader anthropological sense, the ways of being and doing and seeing which give shape to life in a particular place and time.
  
-=== The Journey ===+===The Journey===
  
 I set off from Stockholm on the evening of 8 July, 2012. I set off from Stockholm on the evening of 8 July, 2012.
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