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On the 6th August at 7pm, we’re taking over Refuge Radio to present works from and reflect on Foreign Bodies​, our decade-long sonic and movement research project.

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. On 17 May 2026, we released the full album, which you can purchase to support our ongoing work.

HYENAZ return to Munich’s University of Film and Television to teach a new workshop collaboration Pre-Production As Discovery, along with the artist and researcher Marlo Duchêne and hosted by Professor Beatrice Babin. The workshop is part of the University’s Summer School, and takes place from the 14th to the 18th of September.

This workshop offers filmmakers the chance to explore an emerging project and develop a proof of concept using generative AI, sound design, somatic practices, and creative exercises—not as finishing touches but as starting points. In most productions, sound and image-building tools arrive late or never. We reverse that sequence. You arrive with a raw concept—a mood, a texture, a fragment—and we begin generating audiovisual material immediately, before a screenplay exists.

Over five days on HFF’s LED virtual production stage, you’ll work collaboratively to build immersive sketches that become a film’s sensory language. Through hands-on experimentation with sound, movement, live AI visuals, and generative exercises rooted in human imagination rather than datasets, you’ll treat the sketch as a site of inquiry. These sketches evolve into a tangible, pulsing proof of concept—a sensory compass that guides what your project wants to become.

Along the way, we critically examine what these tools cost—practically, conceptually, ethically—and explore what it means to create with and beyond them. You’ll leave not with a treatment or a script, but with a vivid, working sense of your film’s sonic and visual world, ready to carry forward.

To bring HYENAZ to your community, space or institution, please contact us.

HYENAZ will perform an iteration of Animacies for Máquinas Deseantes a La Terminal on Saturday 15th August, alongside Cazzida dot, Dj ishak, Medusa, Hagamos ruido & Niza.

With Animacies, HYENAZ stage their 10 years of Foreign Bodies research and musical compositions, giving them form through interactive performance scores developed during their 2023 residency at Hamburg’s Kampnagel theatre. These scores are interactive games in which audience members take the stage with HYENAZ and are invited to explore relationality and the micro-politics of inter-action; concepts HYENAZ explore in-depth throughout Foreign Bodies.

HYENAZ were in Munich to teach a version of their workshop Techniques for Auditory Resistance for students at Munich’s University of Film and Television. The workshop ran from the 6th until the 17th of July.

Techniques for Auditory Resistance is not only a workshop in sound design, electronic music production, and field recording, it is an invitation to create works of sonic art shaped by the life-worlds of those who gather. Learn more here.

To bring HYENAZ to your community, space or institution, please contact us.

The HYENAZ film Instinct with Marit Ostberg and Ester Martin Bergsmark will screen at Post Porn Lab in Warsaw on the 27th June, 2026.

Instinct is a queer metaphysical love story that weaves itself through real and imagined sexual encounters across darkrooms, forest cruising zones, and highway shoulders. Immersive and deeply layered, the film presents fantastical playgrounds where bodies imagine themselves in a multiplicity of forms and long for encounters without preconceived notions of what other bodies desire, what they will need, or how they should be touched. Instead, Instinct asks: what does it mean to actively (un)learn what we might assume about another body’s sex, gender, and desire?

The Post Porn Lab program focuses on images and narratives that operate outside the mainstream of visibility – on the peripheries of norm, aesthetics, and power. The featured films explore corporeality as a field of conflict, negotiation, and emancipation, challenging dominant regimes of representing sexuality, gender, desire, and intimacy.

Peripheries of visibility are a space for bodies, practices, and experiences that are repressed, stigmatized, or exoticized: a space for decolonizing ideas and questioning mainstream narratives. It is also a realm of aesthetic experiments, hybrid forms, and narrative ruptures.

Territories of resistance outline artistic and political strategies that reclaim agency over image, language, and pleasure. Here, post-pornography is not a genre but a critical tool – a way of dismantling norms, destabilizing the visual order, and producing new imaginaries of corporeality and relationships.

Post Porn Lab treats film screening as a space of communal experience, a laboratory for thinking, and a platform for dialogue. Each meeting builds a temporary community of audiences and creators, where cinema becomes a field for renegotiating the politics of looking, the ethics of representation, and the possibilities of emancipatory visual practices.

Curators: Aga Szreder and Rafał Żwirek

HYENAZ will perform a version of their Animacies performance at Vibra on Thursday 25th June at 9pm.

Address: Lauschangriff Rigaer Str. 103, 10247 Berlin

With Animacies, HYENAZ stage their 10 years of Foreign Bodies research and musical compositions, giving them form through interactive performance scores developed during their 2023 residency at Hamburg’s Kampnagel theatre. These scores are interactive games in which audience members take the stage with HYENAZ and are invited to explore relationality and the micro-politics of inter-action; concepts HYENAZ explore in-depth throughout Foreign Bodies.