Peaches-x-Clusterfuck Process Research
For the last three weeks I have been deeply embedded with Peaches and the performance ensemble Clusterfuck at Callie’s. Every day we arrive, and we explore what is it to actually be and create with others. It has been beautiful, and challenging, I have learned a lot about how to work collectively, and I have […]
HYENAZ x Yusuph Suso – Ex Situ feat at Maxim Gorki and Documenta
Ex Situ is a project of HYENAZ and Yusuph Suso, with the work of Lau Bau and Rodrigo Frenk. It is an audiovisual sculpture, a music video and a evolving interactive artwork you can contribute to with your phone or laptop. The work maps the fragile technological threads from which human beings conduct transdimensional lives…
HYENAZ – Perimeter on display at Come Alive in Utrecht: June 3 – July 31
The HYENAZ a/v work Perimeter will be featured in the Come Alive exhibition 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…
HYENAZ – Automine at Performing Arts Festival Berlin
After performances in Czechia and Romania, HYENAZ bring their challenging live performance AUTOMINE to Performing Arts Festival Berlin, at ACUD Theatre., Automine asks: what are bodies worth in the digital age? And answers this question through a performance of the performance through which bodies create value, for themselves, but most likely for others. As the…
HYENAZ – Signals premieres at Sound Scene Festival 2021
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. Buy it on Bandcamp. Stream it on Spotify. More at https://www.hyenaz.com/signals/.
HYENAZ x crazinisT artisT – EKU EKU EKU (A Call To Death)
EKU EKU EKU (A Call to Death) is a Virtual Partnership Residency between Ghanaian multi-disciplinary artist Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT] and HYENAZ, with support from Goethe-Institut. Special thanks to Silent Green Kulturquartier Berlin. More at https://www.hyenaz.com/eku-eku-eku-a-call-to-death/.
HYENAZ sound design for Sivan Ben Yishai’s Unsere Stadt aus Vogelaugen / Eine Blutung im Dunkeln
The writer Sivan Ben Yishai is performing her text “Unsere Stadt aus Vogelaugen / Eine Blutung im Dunkeln” in a special collaboration with the electro duo HYENAZ, premiering at the Münchner Kammerspiele. The performative, musical reading is a meditation on the 35 days of repentance, which lie between October 3 and November 9, and draws…
HYENAZ sound design for Oder: Du Verdienst Deinen Krieg at Maxim Gorki Theatre
HYENAZ have just completed their score and sound design for the latest work by writer Sivan Ben Yishai “Oder: Du verdienst deinen Kreig (8 Soldiers Moonsick), directed by Sasha Salzmann, premiering 8th November 2019. Eight young female bodies are lying in a tent, breathing in unison and protecting the rifles under their mattresses, waiting for…
HYENAZ choreograph Clusterfuck for PEACHES retrospective
For the PEACHES epic stage revue “There’s Only One Peach with the Hole in the Middle” HYENAZ directed and choreographed the nine person dance group CLUSTERFUCK. The ensemble comprised artists Adrienne Teicher, Mad Kate, Federica Dauri, Jao Moon, TRAUKO, Ginger Synne, Lori Baldwin, Bishop Black and Martini Cherry Furter. Performances at Kampnagel, Hamburg, Royal Festival…
HYENAZ – Knowbody premieres at Maxim Gorki Theatre
The latest theatre work by HYENAZ, titled KNOWBODY premieres at Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin on 15 June 2019. Against societal trends to dismiss the body in favour of automation, AI, and digital existence, KNOWBODY investigates the presence and absence of the body and the knowledge contained therein. The investigation is done through the performance of…
HYENAZ launch ambient “Clastic” EP
Clastic by HYENAZ Streaming: Spotify / Youtube It is in mountains that the deep history of the world reveals itself, and it is in the play of sediments that the consciousness of minerals reveals itself. This consciousness mirrors in some ways the parasympathetic nervous system of human life, with its long neural pathways and preference…
Queercore documentary features HYENAZ score
HYENAZ composed the original score for Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution which uncovers the emergence of a queer subculture in punk music. What happens when the community you need is not the community you have? Tell yourself it exists over and over, make fan zines that fabricate hordes of queer punk revolutionaries, create subversive…
HYENAZ launch mixed reality immersive performance called Critical Magic 비평 적 마술
Critical Magic 비평 적 마술 is a mixed reality immersive performance based in physical contact, somatic labor, sound and movement to break physical and mental isolation and to spark discourse that is both critical and utopian. The piece is performed with the help of spontaneous INTERLOCUTORS (volunteer performers) in each location who played a role…
HYENAZ launch debut album exploring queer embodiment and scavenger cultures
Spotify / Bandcamp In their 2013 self titled debut 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…