Showings
| 15-17 June 2023 | membra(I)nes: 12th Annual Conference of the Gender Studies Association and Public Program Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle and Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig |
| 20 May 2023 | Sivan Ben Yishai: Wit(h)nessing Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Main Stage |
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1nwFAGIBlVe3FmWxf3IJJ5
Bandcamp: https://hyenazhyenaz.bandcamp.com/album/signals
SIGNALS is a new work created especially for Washington DC’s Sound Scene Festival’s 2021 theme EMERGE. Sound Scene Festival is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum.
Signals explores the notion of performativity in the form of codes, signs, drag, and masks in order to emerge from the darkness as visible.
Signals become methods of translation, channels through which our voices become audible and understood. Bodies emerge into forms which are recognized and codified; modes through which we can be understood and called into subjectivity. An audio work and a video essay, Signals explores the process of emergence especially as it relates to the a/Artist into cultural spaces of power, those who hold or desire to hold the microphone.
Using multiple distinct voices and perspectives, both sung and written, Signals explores the process through which one emerges through the implementation of signals like masks, codes, dress, and language in order to achieve audibility, visibility and thus access. What is this process of emergence? Who stands at the gate? What is gained and lost in this process?
HYENAZ create all their sound works from original field recordings; the particular context for these recordings were an anarcha-feminist anti-military conference which brought together activists from throughout and beyond Eastern Europe and central Asia. Together the members of the conference struggled to bridge knowledges, contexts and experiences. HYENAZ want to especially thank the voices and brave activists who were present there.
Signals is the 4th audio visual work in our Foreign Bodies series.