Performing Arts Organizations' Communication Through Posters in Greece

Abstract

This paper proposes an analysis of a sample of Greek cultural organizations' visual messages as polysemiotic, multimodal signs, in an attempt to examine the role of such messages for the communication strategy of cultural organizations. The sample constitutes visual messages from three Greek cultural organizations, each representing a different type of performing art. These organizations are Greek National Theatre, the National Opera of Greece, and the International Short Film Festival in Drama. All messages included in the study are messages promoting specific cultural events and, simultaneously, the organization as a brand. Through morphological and semiotic analysis of the respective messages of the selected organizations, a series of issues are going to be examined, including the way cultural organizations' messages are composed and projected, their relevance to the specific organization, and the impact of messages both in promoting a cultural event and the organization's brand, as well as maintaining and developing an organization's audience.