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  • 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.

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    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.

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    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

  • Critical Magic | 비평적 마술

    Critical Magic 비평 적 마술 is a mixed-reality immersive performance by HYENAZ that fractures physical and mental isolation through somatic labor, sound, and contact. Between June 2016 and July 2018, the work’s full score unfolded 28 times—mirroring lunar phases—as part of their Probability Praxis Series. Each iteration relied on spontaneous interlocutors (volunteer performers) who bridged HYENAZ with site-specific communities, from Seoul to online spaces during the pandemic’s 2020 isolation peak.

    The project dismantles the performer-audience binary, reimagining bodies as co-creators of transient utopias. Locations were conceptually mapped with the interlocutors beforehand, then post-processed through communal writing and feedback.

    In each performance, HYENAZ invited audiences to join them in the performance of a ritualistic score. Each performacne revealed the challenges and joys of being together in a room, reading consent from strangers and near strangers, collectively building up our energies to reach the “height of gnosis” where a portal to personal and political change opens . As a marvellous and messy organizing of bodies, positionalities and perspectives, it was always a new performance. This praxis transformed each iteration into what HYENAZ term “a marvellous and messy organizing of bodies, positionalities and perspectives“.

    Eva Donckers – Strangelove Festival Antwerp – 2017

    Critical Magic 비평 적 마술 emerged from a site specific performance called “Spectral Rite” (2014) commissioned by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul with HYENAZ working under the direction of Korean artist Sylbee Kim. In this performance HYENAZ led a procession through the gallery environment, traversing its exhibits, and engaging its public. HYENAZ invoked a ritual to mourn a industrial accident during the construction of the gallery that had been suppressed in public memory and which had left many workers dead and injured.

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    From this initial performance Critical Magic 비평 적 마술 has evolved into a uniquely interactive performance that integrates electronic music, chaos magic, performance art, digital media, and interactive play; a moment outside of the everyday where HYENAZ blur distinctions between audience/performer and concert/interactive ritual. Critical Magic 비평 적 마술 walks the fine line between theatrical performance piece and sonic concert, critical theory and pop sensibility, bringing its audience into a liminal space of discovery.

    Evolving into a hybrid of chaos magic, performance art, and electronic rave, Critical Magic 비평 적 마술 came to occupy a liminal zone between concert and interactive ritual. Styling by Yeorg Kronnagel (makeup/accessories) and Juan Chamié of EXIT (House of EXIT costumes), its aesthetic merged the celestial with pop spectacle. The music was mixed by HYENAZ and Bartłomiej Kuźniak, with high definition mastering by Bartłomiej Kuźniak at studio333.

    Over two years of Probability Praxis workshops, HYENAZ refined the piece through public blogging and commentary, ensuring no two performances repeated.

    “We want to thank each and every one of our interlocutors who have danced live and on screen with us throughout this series. They created worlds and pictures the likes of which we have never seen before or since. Our Interlocutors throughout this series have been:

    Federica Dauri, ReveRso, Valentin Tszin, Nuit Nile, Donato, Savage Slit, David Wampach, Nathalie Mondot, Hana Frisonsova, Tereza Silon, Non la Décadence, Lu, Bishop Black, Olave Nduwanje, Pascal Mourits, Sanne van Driel, Yareth Habermehl, Dennis Snorremans, Lizzie Masterton, Mil Vukovic-Smart, ROC, Simon(è) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Danilo Andres, Yozhi Yazooma, Mojmir Mechura, Ambra Stucchi, Charlotte Busch, Isabel Jagoda, Joschi Rotheneder and Anonymous“

    Photo: Claudia Brijbag Urban Spree Berlin 2016

    Presentations

    1. RTS-ZI RITOPEK, SERBIA PROBABILITY PRAXIS 1 of 28 – NEW MOON 8 JUNE 2016 (Special Thanks to our host Dragan Ilic)

    2. Red Gate Arts Society, Vancouver, BC Canada PROBABILITY PRAXIS 2 of 28 – WAXING CRESCENT 2 July 2016

    3. Masseria Jesse, near Alta Mura Italy PROBABILITY PRAXIS 3 of 28 – WAXING CRESCENT 12 July 2016 (Special Thanks to our host Donato)

    4. Urban Spree, Berlin, Germany PROBABILITY PRAXIS 4 of 28 – WAXING CRESCENT 21 October 2016 (Special Thanks to our Interlocutors: Federica Dauri, ReveRso, Valentin Tszin)

    5. Cassera, Bologna, Italy PROBABILITY PRAXIS 5 of 28 – WAXING CRESCENT 28 October 2016

    6. Clandestino, Faenza, Italy PROBABILITY PRAXIS 6 of 28 – WAXING CRESCENT 30 October 2016

    7. ARGEKultur, Salzburg, Austria at Open Mind Festival PROBABILITY PRAXIS 7 of 28 – WAXING CRESCENT 19 November 2016

    8. Humain trop Humain, Montpellier, France at Festival EXPLICIT PROBABILITY PRAXIS 8 of 28 – FIRST QUARTER 26 November 2016 (Special Thanks to our Interlocutors: Savage Slit and David Wampach)

    9. La Colonie, Paris, France at MN³ w/ Polychrome – Society of Silence PROBABILITY PRAXIS 9 of 28 – WAXING GIBBOUS 17 December 2016 (Special Thanks to our Interlocutors: Nathalie Mondot and Anonymous)

    10. Underdogs Ballroom, Prague, Czech, with MENU and Hana Frisonsova PROBABILITY PRAXIS 10 of 28 – WAXING GIBBOUS 20 May 2017 (Special Thanks to our Interlocutors: Hana Frisonsova and Tereza Silon and Thanks to our host Zdeněk Konečný)

    11. Het-Bos, Antwerp, Belgium, STRANGELOVE Festival PROBABILITY PRAXIS 11 of 28 – WAXING GIBBOUS 2 June 2017 (Special Thanks to our Interlocutors: Non la Décadence and Lu)

    12. Hedonist International Congress, Rechlin–Lärz Airfield, Lärz, Deutschland, PROBABILITY PRAXIS 12 of 28 – WAXING GIBBOUS 10 June 2017

    13. Commune, Yerevan, Armenia PROBABILITY PRAXIS 13 of 28 – WAXING GIBBOUS 8 July 2017

    14. Ponderosa Movement and Discovery, Stolzenhagen, Germany PROBABILITY PRAXIS 14 of 28 – WAXING GIBBOUS 22 July 2017 (Special Thanks to our Interlocutor: Tereza Silon)

    15. Chateau Perche Festival, France PROBABILITY PRAXIS 15 of 28 – FULL MOON 5 August 2017

    16. Garbicz Festival, Poland PROBABILITY PRAXIS 16 of 28 – WANING GIBBOUS 5 August 2017 (Special Thanks to our Interlocutors: Tereza Silon and Bishop Black)

    17. Loppen. Christiania Denmark PROBABILITY PRAXIS 17 of 28 – WANING GIBBOUS 13 August 2017

    18. AMS St. Georgen im Schwarzwald PROBABILITY PRAXIS 18 of 28 – WANING GIBBOUS 1 September 2017

    19. WORM, Rotterdam, Netherlands PROBABILITY PRAXIS 19 of 28 – WANING GIBBOUS 2 September 2017 (Special Thanks to our Interlocutors: Olave Nduwanje, Manon la Decadance, Pascal Mourits, Lu, Sanne van Driel, Yareth Habermehl, Dennis Snorremans)

    20. Winchester, England. Probability Praxis 20 of 28 15 September 2017 WANING GIBBOUS

    21. COVEN – Underdog Gallery, London, England. Probability praxis 21 of 28 WANING GIBBOUS 16 September 2017 (Special Thanks to our Interlocutors: Lizzie Masterton, Mil Vukovic-Smart)

    22. Zürich. Les Belles des Nuit PROBABILITY PRAXIS 22 of 28 27 October 2017 THIRD QUARTER

    23. Queercore how to punk a revolution UT Connewitz, Leipzig, Germany. PROBABILITY PRAXIS 23 of 28 11 November 2018 WANING CRESCENT

    23A. Urban Spree 17 February 2018 <<48 MINUTE SET >> (Thanks to our Interlocutors: ROC, Bishop Black, Simon(è) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Danilo Andres)

    23B Köpi, Berlin, DE 30 April 2018 <<48 Minute Set>> (Thanks to our Interlocutors: Tereza Silon, ROC, Simon(è) Jaikiriuma Paetau , Federica Dauri)

    24. S L Y // H Y E N A Z // PUNCTUM, Prague, CZ. PROBABILITY PRAXIS 24 of 28 20 May 2018 WANING CRESCENT (Special Thanks to our Interlocutors: Tereza Silon, Hana Frisonsova, Yozhi Yazooma, Mojmir Mechura)

    25. Queer Culture, Thiembuktu, Magdeburg, DE PROBABILITY PRAXIS 23 of 28 26 May 2018 WANING CRESCENT

    26. Torstrassen Festival, Berlin, Germany. 09 June 2018 WANING CRESCENT Berlin (Special Thanks to our Interlocutors: Ambra Stucchi, Simon(è) Jaikiriuma Paetau)

    27. Les Beau est Toujour Bizarre, Parterre Am Ry, Basel, CH 16 June 2018 WANING CRESCENT

    28. Kultur Fabrik, Hildesheim, DE 05 July 2018 WANING CRESCENT (Special Thanks to our Interlocutors: Charlotte Busch, Isabel Jagoda, Joschi Rotheneder)

    CREDITS

    Lead ArtistsHYENAZ
    MusicHYENAZ
    Spectral Rite Performance DirectionSylbee Kim
    TextHYENAZ, Sylbee Kim, Nico Pelzer
    Makeup & StylingYeorg Kronnagel
    Costume DesignJuan Chamié (House of EXIT)
    Sound Mixing and HD MasteringBartłomiej Kuźniak (studio333)
    Special Thanks ToQuecke Autonomous Feminist Community, Springstoff

  • Scavenge

    In their 2014 self titled debut, also known as “Scavenge”, HYENAZ imagined themselves as transgender hyena-humanoids, scavenging on the edges of apocalypse, building bodies and identities from civilization’s detritus.

    HYENAZ are one, defiled and immaculate, their androgynous flesh quivering on the thin edge between the digital and the divine. They believe that all beings and matter are intrinsically connected, that we can choose utopia over dystopia, that time is an illusion. The album is written as an infinite circle. An electro-symphony, it is composed not track by track, but as a whole, adapting sounds and samples from around the world and influences from across time. 

    Collage: Isaiah Lopaz / Graphic Design: HYENAZ
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    Credits

    Music & LyricsHYENAZ
    MixHYENAZ, Bartłomiej Kuźniak (Studio333)
    MasteringBartłomiej Kuźniak (Studio333)
    Album ArtworkIsaiah Lopaz
    Graphic DesignHYENAZ