"CHICAGO BOYS''

: Chicago Boys Initiated by Hiwa K, in collaboration with Alwynne Pritchard and Vegard Bolstad. During the opening week of Bergen Assembly, Chicago Boys performed songs from the times when neo liberal economy emerged in the world. "The idea of the Chicago Boys as the 1970s Middle-East pop-music revival band and neoliberal study group developed over a period of months while I was researching YouTube for documentaries about the Iraq war and its connection to neoliberalism, and during the same period listening to the music of my childhood. The simultaneity created a kind of environmental connectivity that is closely related not by the topic but by the concurrence of the events." More details of the project can be read here: Chicago-Boys by Hiwa K During the event I performed "Yuh Yuh" by Mahzuni with introduction from Deha Boduroglu about Selda Bagcan who made this song being heard by most in 70s Turkey. Music performance Belgin, 5.9.2019 photo by Thor Brødreskift