MY BODY IS A WARZONE

Type:
Video Performance

Duration:
3 mins

Year:
2022

Director:
Hêja Netirk

Producer:
Hêja Netirk

Country:
Germany

Languages:
Kurdish

Subtitles:
Engilsh

The video performance “MY BODY IS A WARZONE,” by Hêja Netirk, portrays the pain of women who have been abducted by ISIS, turned into sex slaves, and forced into Islamic practices. It also includes her interpretation of paradise: Kurdish Dengbej!

Hêja Netirk is a singer, actress, writer and filmmaker from North Kurdistan (Bakur). In 2018, she produced the feature film Momê directed by Rodi Guven Yalcınkaya. In 2019, she founded BAN Theatre, the Kurdish theatre initiative in Hamburg, with Alan Ciwan and Hüseyin Umaysiz. Currently she is living in Hamburg and working as an actress on the stage and in front of the camera for kurdish and international productions.

Coming from a literary background, Hêja is concerned with migration and integration policies in Germany, decolonisation and women’s oppression as well as performance and its relation to Kurdish history and society. Central to her artistic practice is her experience as a woman in exile, which she presents in various forms of art – singing, acting, film.