Hapiru

ḫa-bi-ru, ʿaperu, Ḫabiru, Habiru, Ḫapiru or Hapiru

  • Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎔𐎗𐎎 Ancient Egyptian: 𓂝𓊪𓂋𓅱𓀀𓏥 

    Akkadian: 𒄩𒁉𒊒

    ʿApiru was a 2nd-millennium BCE term for the social status of people described as rebels, outlaws, raiders, mercenaries, bowmen, servants, slaves, and laborers. 

    The name Hapiru was chosen due to the contemporary relevance of this historical movement.

  • People have always wanted to know “why”. Over the course of human history, this inclination led humanity to imagine and reimagine systems of meaning upon which society (and life itself) came to operate.

    We live with the results of this history - but what will the future result from?

Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎔𐎗𐎎 Ancient Egyptian: 𓂝𓊪𓂋𓅱𓀀𓏥 Akkadian: 𒄩𒁉𒊒

ʿApiru was a 2nd-millennium BCE term for the social status of people described as rebels, outlaws, raiders, mercenaries, bowmen, servants, slaves, and laborers. 

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Hapiru (the artist) is an auto-didact who embraces interdisciplinary interests and practices which inform and complement the field of sound art. 

These areas of study have culminated in several vehicles which allow for the sociocultural integration of these areas of pursuit.

They include:

  1. The Society for the Advancement of Radical Arts (SARA), a social and collective effort to support grassroots culture production and to oppose the traditional, coercive music industry business models which seek to exploit rather than serve and contribute to society;

  2. Reveal Mastering and Sonics (RMS) which provides free mastering services to artists who apply;

  3. RESI.P (Residency Program) a globetrotting artist-residency program which is aimed at building international solidarity and exposing both audiences and featured artists to broad and diverse perspectives.

  4. The Anti-Capitalist Fund (ACF) which donates stock dividends to working class movements and organizations, thus using corporate profits against the elite, anti-worker interests of the extractive oligarchs who own the very corporations whose profits the ACF returns to the workers in the form of collective empowerment;

  5. essays which explore and synthesize connections between the forces which act upon our lives and which we in turn have the power to reshape; interdisciplinary media projects which strive to crystallize and convey actually-existing reality and its effects on the human experience with the understanding that comprehension empowers us to act upon and manipulate our environment and the experience of living within it;

  6. last but not least, Hapiru’s own musical output.