In the light of the women-led mobilisations in Iran which have mushroomed after the state killing of a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, Mahsa Jina Amini, this multi-media sound work, entitled “Woman, Life, Freedom; The Sounds of A Revolution”, tries to depict the Iranian women’s struggle against the tyrannical establishment of the Iranian regime since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In so doing, eleven sounds have been extracted from the recordings of the 1979, 2009, 2021 and the 2022 protests, shared on social media from within Iran. The accompanied text situates the sounds within their historic, geographic and political contexts. Edited by Mahsa Alami Fariman, Ahmadreza Hakiminejad and Duncan Whitley.
Created anonymously for Student Day in Iran, December 2022, this music video belongs to a moment when gathering and collective art-making was still possible. It was made in the days when chants rose through the windows and echoed across the streets.
This work remains a trace of that momentum of protest art-making in 2022, when courage creativity and solidarity found their voice together.