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SIGNS OF CONFLICT

Ongoing since 2003, Signs of Conflict is a project that involves collecting, archiving and studying the political posters that were produced by the various warring factions, political parties and movements during Lebanon's civil war. It is premised upon the idea that the posters unfold the narratives of the prevailing political conflicts while providing insights into modern Arab visual culture. Lebanon's civil war is a complex case where local socio-economic and sectarian struggles, linked with regional politics, characterized political discourses and distinguished the numerous warring factions. That, in turn, materialized in the production of an equally complex plethora of political posters, with diverse iconography and conflicting significations, as well as distinct aesthetic practices.

Signs of Conflict is curated by DR. ZEINA MAASRI.

Can Beyza Uçak

Beyza is a Strategic Communications researcher studying insurgent propaganda, counterculture and disobedience objects. On 7th April she presented alongside and in dialogue with the Thinking Inside the Box exhibition, where she delivered a presentation on Turkish Counterculture Posters from from 1968, leading up to the second military coup in March 1971. When the coup took place, forcing the New Left in Turkey towards guerrilla action, illegalization while the progress in printing technologies and finances of the movement changed the visual language tremendously after 1971. The case studies are on Ankara and Istanbul, -the sentence of the student movements, political activism and poster printing. Comparative references are made to South American cinema, French, Polish and Cuban Posters of the era.

You can find the publication, documentary and details on the printing workshops here.