Halil Altindere | The Centre Pompidou New Media Collection

Curators: Christine Van Assche, Ghila Limon
Nov. 27, 2010 - Jan. 22, 2011

Dengbejs, 2007, video Installation, 15:17 min.
Halil Altindere
A group of men gathers in a traditional wooden hut decorated with oriental carpets, where a map of Turkey hangs in the background. These men are dengbejs, the Kurdish word for “storytellers.” They are the traditional singers of their nation’s history, which is often intertwined with tales of love, war and social injustice. In the course of this gathering, for instance, one of the singers addresses the audience with the following words: “Let me tell you the story of the Kurds, their genealogy. They found shelter in Iran, but the Iranian Shah poisoned them.”

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