FOREIGN BODIES A/V is an immersive somatic rave that maps how movement reshapes who we are—and how power dictates who is allowed to move.
HYENAZ present their most expansive project to date, Foreign Bodies: 21 tracks composed over ten years from field recordings gathered across migrant camps, transit zones, communes, and artist colonies — research conducted by foot, bicycle, train, and hitchhiked ride. From these sonic fragments, the duo composed an epic sonic journey that moves between dance tracks and ambient works, the two forms acting as different states of the same architecture. Woven through both: thinkers, academics, artists, and writers, among them the haunting vocals of Gambian musician Yusuph Suso and the voices of Sivan Ben Yishai, Erin Manning, and Thomas F. DeFrantz, integrated as texture, rhythm, and argument.
The music is presented with live vocals alongside their impressive body of audio-visual works — choreographed, directed, and edited by HYENAZ in collaboration with dancers and performers across multiple continents, including Bishop Black, Tereza Silon, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Danilo Andres, Mmakgosi Kgabi among others. On stage, this becomes a continuous visual score projected at scale: two artists, their recorded and live voices, and the full weight of a decade of image and sound.
Foreign Bodies traces what happens to a body in relation, in resistance, and under the force of control: Bodies in migration and under management; bodies crossing borders imposed by others and negotiating limits they set for themselves; bodies in flux, in synchronicity, in refusal. The work began as a response to paranoid politics around migration in Europe, Australia, and the United States, and expanded into something wider: how humans construct the Otherness of fellow beings — human, animal, plant, mineral — and how that construction binds or unbinds the self from full experience of the world.