HAIR IN THE WIND is a collective art-poetry Installation curated by Antje Stehn. It is dedicated to the courage of Iranian women and their dramatic, irrepressible struggle after the murder of Mahsa Amini guilty of letting a lock of hair out of her hijab. Their cry "Women, Life, Freedom" has crossed borders uniting women of different countries, cultures, religions, becoming the banner of those who rebel against abuse and violence. The initiative was born on 25 November when, on the occasion of the international day against violence against women, Antje Stehn, a German poet and artist who lives in Milan, Italy launched an international call to support the struggle of Iranian and Afghan women with their own poetic work which was gethered around the big Hemp head sculpture which Antje Stehn had created. In just two months she received over 30 adhesions from associations from all over the world and about 200 poems from participants from over 30 countries including many refugees from Iran, living abroad. They are all part of the installation now. HAIR IN THE WIND was presented in live events in Italy during the year 2023. In our video we present 32 selected poetry videos of the participants.
Participants of the Video
00.08 Videopoetry Giorgio Longo, Italy
01.46 Fereshteh Vaziri, Iran - Germany
03.08 IRIS, University of Dehli, collective students work, creative support by Mr. Debasish Parashar
05.43 Ayesha Emon, Pakistan - UK
06.37 Mahtan Yaghma, Iran – Turkey
07.55 Marino Tarizzo, Italy
09.14 Fatemeh Ekhtesari, Iran – Norway
10.55 George Wallace, USA
12.23 Nahid Ensafpour, Iran – Germany
14.57 Marta Paolantonio, Italy
15.33 Nasrin Siege, Iran – Germany
16.21 Patricia Martin, USA
18.06 Salem Khalfani, Iran - Germany
19.42 Salvatore Nappa, Italy
22.05 Elizabeth Guyon, Italy – France
24.43 Simona Albano, Italy
26.10 Olga Alanis, Mexico
27.30 Nnane Ntube, Cameroon
28.48 Marilyn Bertoncini, France
30.12 Pankhuri Sinha, India
31.46 Claudia Liekam, Germany
32.37 Bartolomeo Bellanuova, Italy
33.32 Farnaz Fatemi, Iran – USA
34.28 Maria Elena Santomauro, Italy
34.56 Mansour Noorbakhsh, Iran - Canada
36.09 Meghan Grupposo, USA
37.19 Rooja Mohassessy, Iran - USA
38.45 Mariella Musso, Italy
39.21 Soheila Mirzaei, Iran – Germany
40.39 Pietro Vanessi, Italy
41.38 Fareshteh Fatemi, Iran - USA
42.48 Tiziana Colusso, Italy
The project is part of the subthemes Literature as a tool for social equality.
Author
Antje Stehn
Antje Stehn, Germany, resides in Italy. Poet, visual artist, art curator, member of German PEN. She is co-editor of the poetry Magazine TamTamBumBum, Los Ablucionistas. She is member of the directive committee of the Piccolo Museo della Poesia of Piacenza, Italy. Since 2020 she is curating the art-poetry project “Rucksack a Global Poetry Patchwork“ and in 2023 “Hair in the Wind“ which involved all together more than 350 international poets. Her books and poems are translated into twelve different languages and published in numerous international Antologies.
