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  • Signals

    Signals

    Dates

    11-13 April 202512th International Video POETRY FESTIVAL ATHENS
    15-17 June 2023membra(I)nes: 12th Annual Conference of the Gender Studies Association
    Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle and Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
    20 May 2023Sivan Ben Yishai: Wit(h)nessing
    Haus der Berliner Festspiele
    6 June 2021Washington DC’s Sound Scene Festival “EMERGE”

    Signals explores the notion of performativity in the form of codes, signs, drag, and masks in order to emerge from the darkness as visible.

    Signals become methods of translation, channels through which our voices become audible and understood. Bodies emerge into forms which are recognized and codified; modes through which we can be understood and called into subjectivity. An audio work and a video essay, Signals explores the process of emergence especially as it relates to the a/Artist into cultural spaces of power, those who hold or desire to hold the microphone.

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    Using multiple distinct voices and perspectives, both sung and written, Signals explores the process through which one emerges through the implementation of signals like masks, codes, dress, and language in order to achieve audibility, visibility and thus access. What is this process of emergence? Who stands at the gate? What is gained and lost in this process?

    HYENAZ create all their sound works from original field recordings; the particular context for these recordings were an anarcha-feminist anti-military conference which brought together activists from throughout and beyond Eastern Europe and central Asia. Together the members of the conference struggled to bridge knowledges, contexts and experiences. HYENAZ want to especially thank the voices and brave activists who were present there.

    Signals is the 4th audio visual work in Foreign Bodies, commissioned by Sound Scene Festival, Washington DC in 2021, with support from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Goethe Institut.

    Credits

    Text, Vocals, Music & VideoKathryn (Roi) Fischer & Adrienne Teicher
  • Foreign Bodies

    Foreign Bodies

    Foreign Bodies is a sonic and somatic exploration of bodies in multiplicity: bodies in motion and migration; bodies managed by internal and external forces; bodies navigating boundaries imposed by others, bodies negotiating boundaries they set for themselves; bodies in flux; bodies in synchronicity; bodies in resistance to management and control. Since 2015, we have met and worked with so many incredible people to make this project come alive. In 2025, we began staging Foreign Bodies as a series called, “Animacies,” which has synthesised this ten year long work into live interactive performance scores, each one slightly different from the other depending on the context. We are now excited to announce that we will be releasing the full album – 10 dance tracks and 11 “inbetweens” on the 17th of May 2026! Please join us for a celebratory picnic if you are in Berlin.

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    LAUNCH

    BANDCAMP

    ABOUT the Project

    Foreign Bodies initially emerged as a response to paranoid narratives around migration into Europe, Australia, and the United States—different locations in which HYENAZ’s constructed versions of “home”. What truly interests HYENAZ is how movement continually reshapes subjectivity, and how subjectivity, in turn, dictates both how bodies move and how bodies are allowed to move.

    While some traverse borders as unchecked tourists, others risk death to migrate—a brutal asymmetry so utterly normalized that it is easy to forget that there is nothing normal about it at all. It has a history, it has a structure, it has interests, and it is these contingencies and determinations that HYENAZ wish to map.

    Foreign Bodies likewise interrogates the very notion of the “foreign,” whether weaponized through xenophobic fear or inadvertently perpetuated through allyship that exoticizes the Other. HYENAZ seek to trace the ways we produce the unknowable subject within our own communities and even within our own bodies

    HYENAZ work through field recordings – materialisations of time, people and places, which, when played back, produce temporary sound sculptures in the air, and from these fragments the duo creates artworks probing authority, consent, and proximity. Their itinerant research—via trains, buses, bicycles, and hitchhiking—led them to migrant camps, transit zones, communes, and artist colonies, over the course of ten years.

    These inquiries have expanded beyond initial scope, compelling HYENAZ to examine how humans construct the Otherness of fellow beings—whether human, animal, plant, or stone, and how that attitude binds or unbinds the self to experience the world in all its senses.

    Works

    CREDITS

    This album began in 2015 at a temporary camp for asylum seekers outside Budapest, Hungary and ended in 2024 at the Pro-Palestinian “Occupy Against Occupation” Camp in Berlin, Germany

    Composition, Field RecorDING, Studio Recording, A/V Concept and Editing, PERFORMANCE:

    HYENAZ (Mad Kate and Adrienne Teicher)

    Mixing & Mastering:

    Steve Voidloss at Black Monolith Studios

    Featured Musicians:

    Yusuph Suso (Gambian griot), Bartłomiej Kuźniak (saxophonist), Uday (guitarist from BgB field recording)

    FEATURED SPEAKERS
    TRANSLATORS:

    Eleanora Moramarco
    Federica Dauri
    Mariatereza Natuzzi

    REMIXERS:

    Dorninger (Proximity Remix)
    okpk (Proximity Swarming Remix)
    El Fulminador (Proximity Remix)
    The Shredder (Proximity Remix)
    IXA (Perimeter Transopticon Remix)
    Maya Postepski (Perimeter Fantasy Remix)
    Sky Deep (ExSitu Remix)
    Bad Conscience (Columns Remix)
    Consumer Refund (Columns Remix)
    NVRS (Columns Remix)
    Lady Maru (Columns Remix)

    MOVERS:

    Ambrita Sunshine (Proximate Movements)
    Bishop Black (Proximity, Proximate Movements)
    Danilo Andrés (Proximity, Proximate Movements)
    Federica Dauri (Proximate Movements)
    Jao Moon (Proximate Movements)
    Lori Baldwin (Proximate Movements)
    Martini Cherry Furter (Perimeter)
    Mmakgosi Kgabi (Perimeter)
    ReveRso (live performances)
    ROC (Proximity)
    Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau (Proximity, Proximate Movements, Perimeter)
    Tereza Silon (Proximity, Boundary Creatures)

    FILMMAKERS:

    Jo Pollux (Proximity)
    Raja de Luna (Proximity)
    Robert Mleczko (Perimeter)
    Xenia Østergård Ramm and Old Erik at Hackstage Collective (Columns)

    STYLISTS and COSTUMES:

    Juan de Chamié (Perimeter, live)
    Yeorg Kronnagel (Perimeter, live)
    Moran Sanderovich (live)

    INSTALLATION ARTISTS:

    Lau Licciardi (Designer, Builder)
    Rodrigo Frenk (Creative Technologist)

    SPECIAL THANKS:

    Giuseppe Bottalico and his two sons, Ion Dumitrescu, Cosima, Mihaela Cirjan, Graham Ball at Orchestral Tools, Nora Ugron, Lilly Pfalzer, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, Jova Lynne, Isabelle Lewis, Sharon and Micha at KUBA, AntkeAntek Engel, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Donato Laborante, Michele Melchionda, Franx Ciava, Barbara Maraio, Lea Connert and team at Kampnagel, Dana Tucker, Maria Teresa Natuzzi, Annibale Sepe, Nadia Says at Your Mom’s Agency, attendees of the Anarcho-Feminist & Anti-Military Conference, activists at Besetzung gegen Besatzung, Wayne Atkinson (Yorta Yorta elder, historian), PEACHES, Ellison Glenn, Hanna Schaich, Yony Leyser, Interim Magazine, Rainer Scheerer at SPRINGSTOFF, Emerencz at Obskur Music, Nick Cullen, Thomas Chambon, Laura Hester, Graphijane, and our families

    LOCATIONS and COMMUNITIES
    • Samothraki Sounds
    • KUBA
    • Yorta Yorta Community
    • RKK & Grand-Synthe Camp, Dunkirk
    • Barmah Lakes
    • Apricena, Italy
    • Giardino Diversensibile, Ariano Irpino, Italy
    • Alta Mura, Italy
    • Ferrula Ferrita
    • Sid, Croatia
    • Budapest, Hungary Keleti Station
    • Yorta Yorta Land
    • Rome, Italy
    • RKK Kitchen Dunkirk France
    • pilgrimage town of Częstochowa, Poland.
    • Armenia
    • Tblisi
    • Buchow
    • Train in Czech / Budapest
    • trains and buses
    • Harz Mountains