About Us
“Super Inday” is the offshoot of Palangga Prison Art; Triple Lockdown Showdown which started as Freedom in Prison passion project which evolved into a restorative social enterprise showcasing the artworks produced with the women artists as Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) in Iloilo City District Jail Female Dormitory in Iloilo City (ICDJFD) and Iloilo District Jail Female Dormitory (IDJFD), Pototan, Iloilo.
In response to the COVID19 pandemic, the Super Inday art exhibit provides a beathing space where women who are seemingly invisible, voiceless, powerless, and marginalized are involved in psycho-social care-giving through arts as a survival tool kit expressed in the stories of objects.
This project is a restorative recovery process from COVID-19 pandemic breaking barriers, bridging isolation while engaging through zoom barter the most vulnerable and marginalized artists in the region such as incarcerated women artists mothering behind bars in Iloilo City District Jail Female Dormitory, Iloilo, Philippines. This is important process of breaking through the darkness , anxiety and depression through transcendence and beauty. The value of expressive arts transcends pain into beauty as the most healing expression of the self and the collective is the main focus of this bartering compassion as part of the Palangga Prison Art.
Can Prison be a healing place? The main purpose of this culture-specific healing prison art project, is to reach out to the most vulnerable and marginalized population of women artists badly affected by COVID-19 pandemic. The process of using healing modalities is the reintroduction of community healing arts rooted in the indigenous skills, knowledge, and practices as part of the process in arts making expressed in the culture-specific contemporary form of representation, appropriation and expression.
Storytelling is a powerful tool for healing and assertion. Women tell stories as a means of gathering parts of themselves back to one piece. Hilway (Freedom) is a process of expressive arts psychosocial intervention where women exercise their own sense of freedom navigating in a tight small crowded prison space through art-making. Women transcend their pains and struggles through artworks as they reclaim their dignity expressed as new colors to light up their life in the darkest times.
Women tell their stories through their art works. Women speaks through their beadwork. The embroidered tapestry and accessory serves as a healing process to bring out the voices of women. Palangga prison art featuring Super Inday Dolls are stories of objects, visual narratives of women artists and mothers in prison expressed in soft sculpture, tapestry, collage, embroidery and bead work. Inday means Miss or Mademoiselle as a personal endearment or relational name called before a name used by the Ilonggos in Panay region. Inday is significant in the geography as origin and identity
of the product. The women naming and claiming their identity has a strong significance in the human stories of objects. The process made women express symbolic representation of their life stories. The art process makes a difference in the lives of women in prison creating new colors in their darkest times. Inday Dolls are not just mere objects but iconic portraits of the women, prison psychology, collective memory which revolves around their family and relationships.
of the product. The women naming and claiming their identity has a strong significance in the human stories of objects. The process made women express symbolic representation of their life stories. The art process makes a difference in the lives of women in prison creating new colors in their darkest times. Inday Dolls are not just mere objects but iconic portraits of the women, prison psychology, collective memory which revolves around their family and relationships.
(Inday Hugot Borda Book)
FAMO facilitated funding grants from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and Cultural Center of the Philippines. Freedom in Prison Project was awarded as Top 20 Grantee by the US Embassy YSEALI US Mission for the ASEAN and chosen for the boot camp with BPI Sinag Accelerate as Top 20 finalist and FAMO was awarded the Ten Accomplished Youth Organization (TAYO) Finalist in 2019 for the Walk to Freedom Project: Bayaning Inday.
Zerrudo see the prison is not a dead the end, but rather a restorative space with living narratives of human stories through objects, a space of compassion with overflowing bodies sharing the politics of tolerance, compassion, and love.