Category: Foreign Bodies
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Audibility (feat Donato Laborante)
LISTEN: https://ditto.fm/audibility In their audiovisual artwork Audibility, HYENAZ delve into the politics of sound, inviting viewers to reconsider their relationship to the audible and inaudible, to silence and silencing. Filmed in an ancient man-made cave in the Murgia region of southern Italy, poet Donato Laborante delivers a poetic exploration of different forms of silence(s), holding…
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Ex Situ feat Yusuph Suso / Featured in party office’s Mad Time Warp playlist at documenta fifteen
Ex Situ is a project of HYENAZ and Yusuph Suso, with the work of Lau Bau and Rodrigo Frenk. It is a live performance, a musical track, a music video, an audiovisual sculpture and an interactive web based app which maps the fragile technological threads from which human beings conduct transdimensional lives in past, current…
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Proximity / Presented at Hamburg Short Film Festival 2023
This damp and amphibious track extrapolates from field recordings of an immense network of stuttering frogs, which we encountered on Yorta Yorta country in South-Eastern Australia. The frogs reacted to their presence and movement by altering the intensity and volume of their vocalizations, creating an organic techno. The singular texture of PROXIMITY is the result…
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S.W.E.A.T. podcast featuring HYENAZ in conversations on Extraction
As artists and researchers, we are constantly exploring the connections between art, the environment, and labour rights. Interviews from our ongoing Extraction project were broadcast as part of Mad Kate’s S.W.E.A.T. podcast. In March 2023 we had the opportunity to interview Donato Laborante, who we met during our tour of the Murgia region of Italy…
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Extraction
With funding from Fonds Darstellende Künste and Musikfonds, we are researching “extraction” as metasignifier—we include the extraction of (creative) labour from (precarious) bodies; minerals, gas and water from the ground; sounds, words and images from sentient beings; the consensual extraction of digital content, and the “mining of the exotic” from our very identities.
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Signals
SIGNALS is a new work created especially for Sound Scene Festival’s 2021 theme 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.
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Stillicidum: die Tränen des Steines
A workshop with HYENAZ exploring animacy, consent, deep listening and authentic movement, in relationship with stone.
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Sound in Stone: Field Research – Murgia, Italy
As winter waned in 2023 we embarked on a journey back to the Murgia region eager to deepen our exploration of stone as a conduit for sound and aliveness. This place is special to us, not only because of its arid hills and valleys, lined with tall and rattly Ferula Ferita shrubs, but also for…
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Art and Extractivism Reading Group
READING AND DISCUSSING TOGETHER. This reading group is especially oriented towards reading together rather than reading outside the group. We hope that this close reading strategy can be a small act of resistance against the cultural colonization of Western academia, the hegemony of English, and the codified distinctions between the academic and the “non-academic” or…
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Perimeter
Perimeter will be featured at the exhibition Come Alive at Het Nieuwe Muntgebouw in Utrecht from June 3 – July 31 2022. COME ALIVE, is an Art exhibition shares love without a reason. The exhibition/festival offers 45 artists the space to share how their personal experiences and life choices let love without reason and the…