Category: Foreign Bodies

  • Queer Talks w. Nóra Ugron

    Queer Talks w. Nóra Ugron

    Queer Talks: HYENAZ and Nóra Ugron on art, extractivism and continuity from a queer, decolonial and posthuman perspective. The talks were part of the complementary programme of the exhibition “Feel ~ Drift ~ Sing” in Triumf Amiria.

  • The non-consensual field of consent within which the consent is extracted

    The non-consensual field of consent within which the consent is extracted

    to a data set. That set was created from analysis about me. But “I” am not a data set and “I” as I arrived into the world did not consent to being a data set, in fact one could say my infancy qualified me as “not able to give consent.” My a/liveness was debatable, so…

  • Overview

    Overview

    Extraction is the forthcoming audio visual and performative work in HYENAZ Foreign Bodies series and explores how extractive processes are replicated within the arts, and how we can find ways to resist and mediate those processes. The initial research phase of this project began in June 2021 through Fonds Darstellende Künste #TakeCare program. The residency…

  • Compendium of Tactics*

    Compendium of Tactics*

    The following compendium is a by-no-means-exhaustive list of accountability practices during the field recording, filming and collaborative phase of a project. These practices are designed to upset, disrupt, and subvert extractivist or exploitative relationships which may otherwise occur during an artistic “exchange”. They have been compiled as result of research, conversations and experience gathered in…

  • Why Speak about Extraction and Extractivism

    Why am I thinking about extractivism and what am I hoping to understand through this process? Part of what I would like to do is begin from a space of acknowledging that extractivist practices are inherent to most labour and creative processes, including my own, and to look that in its face. As a sound…

  • This Beautiful Shot Is Not An Accident Podcast

    This Beautiful Shot Is Not An Accident Podcast

    HYENAZ recently discussed the current state of their research into extraction and extractivism on the “This Beautiful Shot is not an Accident” podcast….

  • Regarding everyone and everything in the light of the irreplaceable

    As sound artists we make and take recordings. Can we talk about extracting minerals from a landscape and extracting sounds in the same breath? Are they manifestations of the same phenomenon? In what ways are they the same and in what ways are they different. Extracting minerals is removing something from a landscape leaving behind…

  • Extraction Gallery

    Extraction Gallery

    This gallery includes visual documentation of the birth of the extraction project, when we visited the marble quarry in Apricena, Italy in 2015

  • S.W.E.A.T. Podcast

    S.W.E.A.T. Podcast

    sex. work. extraction. art. theatre. LISTEN to S.W.E.A.T., hosted by Mad Kate S.W.E.A.T. is a series of conversations about performance and performativity of the sexual and sexualized body at work—where work is broadly defined as the labour of survival, the labour of care, creativity, and capital-A-Art. How exactly do we define our work and how…

  • Columns

    Columns

    Columns is a response to militarized violence and to History, specifically the historicising mode which focuses on events and important persona, while blurring events and persona deemed unimportant or inconsequential.