Art and Extractivism: Close Reading and Discussion facilitated by HYENAZ at Synth Library Prague 15.09 at 19:00 | Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1569668533380116 Join us for an artist talk by Berlin based duo HYENAZ.HYENAZ: ART AND EXTRACTIVISMWhat is extraction? From the Cambridge Dictionary online, extraction is the process of taking out or removing something, especially by force.…
Category: Foreign Bodies
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*
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…
Discussions on Art and Extractivism
Here we gathered all the recorded conversations and podcasts where we discuss our work on Extraction.
Essays on Art and Extractivism
These essays synthesize the reading and research we have done in the course of the Extraction research phase
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
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…
Gallery
This gallery includes visual documentation of the birth of the extraction project, when we visited the marble quarry in Apricena, Italy in 2015
Proximity
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 of this collaboration with wetland wildlife….