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Adrienne Teicher

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  • 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.

    STREAMING

    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
  • Paula Temple – Gegen (I Want to Move HYENAZ Edit)

    Paula Temple – Gegen (I Want to Move HYENAZ Edit)

    The HYENAZ edit of Paula Temple’s techno classic “Gegen” was been featured in the Electronic Beats “Right to Assemble!” playlist, which explores music as an agent of change. Read more: https://www.electronicbeats.net/right-to-assemble-sounds/

    So many assumptions are made about why people choose to move, who has the right to move, and who does not, who can simply travel on a whim and who must risk everything to leave their lands for others. Our sense of time and space is increasingly unbounded, as access to knowledge, art and the public sphere shared through electronically mediated communication. Yet so many still have to risk death or internment to cross national borders physically, with access to migration arbitrarily determined by pieces of paper distributed along class and racial lines.

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    HYENAZ were inspired by Paula’s powerful track Gegen, whose title refers to the German word for “against” and already expresses the dichotomous terms in which media and political discourses discuss migration: Are you for or against migration? How do “we” oppose the “others” who are against “our” way of life. The urgency of its siren-like lead synth speaks to the militarised policing of national borders and the desperation that pushes people to risk everything in order to exercise the human right to move freely.

    Paula Temple released her track ‘Gegen’ via her imprint Noise Manifesto in 2014, at a time the German term was being widely used by protesters during an upheaval of asylum seekers in Germany. 

    “As refugees are fleeing for their lives, it is shocking we are creating similar conditions and hateful rhetoric as what happened in 1930s pre-WWII for political gain,” explained Temple in an official statement. “My personal hope is in our efforts to diminish the climate of hate with an overwhelming climate of empathy.”

    Credits

    Original TrackPaula Temple
    TextMad Kate
    Vocal EditingAdrienne Teicher
    Vocals Recording & MasteringBartłomiej Kuźniak (Studio333)