Power of A Cliche

Performance lecture 2006 Iran

Through 220 slides Haleh Anvari Addresses the issues surrounding the representations of her country by the western media and the powers within Iran. Using photographs mined from the internet and mixing these with personal and family photographs, she looks at the role of the chador in her life and in the way Iran and a whole nation are represented.

This lecture performance has beeen performed live in Bahrain, USA, UK and as a recording in a number of other countries including India and Australia.