HYENAZ

Dates

18 May 2024		Performatorio, Bergamo, Italy
12 May 2024		Festa Delle Transumanze, Masseria Jesce, Altamura, Italy
22 September 2023		CW / Hive Film Festival Flutgraben Berlin
16 September 2023		Bygdapride Øystese, Norway
25-26 May 2022		Performing Arts Festival Berlin ACUD Theatre Berlin
18 April 2022		Y: N𝙤rmal B𝙤dies Divadlo X10 Prague
9-10 December 2021		Performance + Artist Talk ACUD Theatre Berlin
26 September 2021		Performance + Artist Talk Casa Tranzit, Cluj
23 September 2021		Performance + Artist Talk Atelierele Malmaison Bucharest, Romania
16 September 2021 15 September 2021		Performance: Cross Attic, Prague Artist talk: Synth Library, Prague

Automine asks: what are bodies worth in the digital age? And answers this question through a performance of the performance through which bodies create value, for themselves, but most likely for others.

Bodies create value through physical labour, bodies create value by emotional labour, bodies also create value by mining the identifying markers attached to bodies, my gender, my sexuality, my story, all of these markers have value, but the value of these markers change through space and time, as society changes, as politics changes, and as the body changes, ages, decays.

As the virtual replaces the real, the body should disappear. But does it really? Automine seeks an answer through, music, essay and a critical recitation of queer aesthetics in the third decade of the twenty first century.

HYENAZ present their musical works as immersive performance intervention. A performance asks that bodies are present: as performer, as audience, as active interlocutor. The assembling of bodies together for the purpose of performance – and the proximity of those bodies to experience or create together – is in itself a practice of (re)discovery of the politics of sharing physical space and the immanent territory of the flesh. 

AUTOMINE pushes their ongoing Foreign Bodies project deeper into questions around a/Arts and extractivism, where “extraction” is utilized as metasignifier for the extraction of (creative) labour from (precarious) bodies; the mining of minerals, gas and water from the ground; the taking and recording of sounds, words and images from sentient beings; the seemingly consensual extraction of digital content, and the “mining of the exotic” from our very identities.