Posters Protest: A dialogue on the visual rhetorics of the Iranian Green Movement

Opening lecture by the curator who will presents the exhibition: Monday, January 13 at 15:30.

The Iranian "Green Movement" is a protest movement that emerged after a wave of peaceful street protests in 2009. The demonstrators questioned the results of the tenth presidential election and accused the government of fraud. They demanded accountability and transparency, but were met with suppression and exclusion and were prevented from voicing their demands. Internet surveillance was intensified, but to by-pass the censorship, protesters started using visual expressions, both symbolic and narrative, spreading their messages through digital poster campaigns.

For the first time, this exhibition presents the most significant visual material of the Iranian Green Movement. These posters, Facebook profiles and pictures have never been printed or presented outside Internet.

The curator is from Iran. She is currently a Master's student of Design and Visual Communication at Kunst- og designhøgskolen i Bergen (Bergen Academy of Art and Design). She is doing her Master's on the Iranian Green Movement posters and the contextualisation of them as an online archive. She has a collection of hundreds of posters and has done presentations of her archive both at the University of Bergen and University of Edinburgh.