BACKGROUND
The political poster is experiencing a revival. In its 5th year, the international Poster Competition and Festival “Mut zur Wut” (“Courage to Rage”) has developed significant global relevance, which in 2014 will resulted in over 2500 submissions from 54 countries.
The Poster Festival aims to raise awareness for global and social issues and circumstances while loosening geographical and ideological boundaries. Having the final exhibition displayed in public space, the Festival is an encouragement to be brave and at the same time a provoking demand for attention.
In a two day meeting, the 5 internationaly noted members of the jury will review all submitted posters. The most significant 30 submissions will be nominated and produced for an exhibition that will be put in various cities.The choice of topics for the subject is free. The poster should have a critical, social, political and/or personal content, visualized in a meaningful motif.
In a two day meeting, the 5 internationaly noted members of the jury will review all submitted posters. The most significant 30 submissions will be nominated and produced for an exhibition that will be put in various cities.The choice of topics for the subject is free. The poster should have a critical, social, political and/or personal content, visualized in a meaningful motif.
Once a year “Mut zur Wut” transforms the public space to a scene of visual resistance. A niche of freedom in otherwise completely monitored and continuously controlled urban areas. The exhibition of the winning posters transforms the streets into a stage for art – an enormous public gallery, in which you are forced to see, think, get mentally and emotionally involved. The presentation of the posters in public space is a reconquest of urban space, that is threaten to degenerate into a dull and exchangeable advertising platform.
The winning posters will be put on busy roads and high-traffic locations in several waves. Thousands of views and contacts with pedestrians, cars, busses are the result of this prominent placement. The daily encounter with the posters leads to the often profound and sometimes not at first glance perceptible messages, which provoke an intense engagement with the contents.
Throughout the past years, the exhibition was displayed not only in public space but also in various German cities such as Heidelberg, Mannheim, Berlin, Munich, Giessen, Lucerne (Switzerland), Perugia (Italy) as well as Oaxaca (Mexico) and Kuethaya (Turkey), and most recently in London.
Mut Zur What
The first time I heard about the competition, I was like "mut zur what?" because I did not understand what was it about. Later when I read the brief, is that I understood the significance of these 3 words. Sometimes we have the courage, burning inside, but we are not sure how to use that rage, we don't have a established cause and tend to do what the masses do.
On May 15, 2015, the jury: Teresa Sdralevich (BE), Alex Jordan (FR), Peter Bankov (RU), Sascha Lobe (DE) and Rene Wanner (CH) selected 100 posters from 2635 posters submitted from 1312 participants from 50 countries. Out of these, 30 posters were chosen that will be shown in the streets of Heidelberg (DE), starting in late July 2015.
One of those 30 posters is mine.
EXHIBITION
On July 24th, in the streets of Heidelberg, Germany, the posters were printed and shown to all the people passing by.
Streets of Heidelberg, Germany.
The website of the Universidad Catolica de Guayaquil, where I study, featured the information about the poster and the event.
Featured in Rene Wanner's Poster Page
You can check all the 30 winning posters here
