Category: Hyenaz

  • Damage Done // Say Goodbye To

    Damage Done // Say Goodbye To

    Presentations

    21-23 February, 2025Ballhaus Ost

    Welcome to a living room that turns into a smouldering scene of remembering and forgetting. Here, between a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and her daughter, worlds collide: an interplay of anger, sadness, despair and disorientation. What remains when memories fade and the past becomes an unreliable companion?

    Damage Done takes the audience on a journey through the fragility of memory and the construction of identity in a world that wants to save everything. The starting point is private video recordings from the family archive that were never intended for the public. But it is precisely this intimate closeness that challenges us to pause and ask questions: What does this material show – and what does it do to us who view it?

    Through a collaborative process, the recordings are dissected, reinterpreted and translated into images, movements and dialogues. Alternative forms of communication emerge, transforming the stage into a multi-perspective space in which remembering and forgetting are negotiated in equal measure.

    Credits

    Concept, Direction:Tobias Yves Zintel
    Sound Design:HYENAZ
    Score:HYENAZ, Daniel Murena
    Performers:Juno Meinecke, Adrienne Teicher, Anatol Käbisch, Janet Rothe, Rasmus Slätis, Karen Zimmermann, Kathryn Fischer
    Director’s Assistant:Karen Zimmermann
    Stage:Sabina Moncys, Tobias Yves Zintel
    Camera:Shane Mcmillan
    Produced by:Tobias Yves Zintel in co-operation with Ballhaus Ost
  • The Visual Feminist Manifesto

    The Visual Feminist Manifesto

    Presentations

    2nd, 4th & 8th february 2025International Film Festival Rotterdam (Premiere)

    Expressing desire, pursuing dreams, loving oneself, questioning the oppressive confines of patriarchy. Farida Baqi takes us on a lyrical and emotional journey through the life of a young woman from birth to adulthood in an unnamed Arab city.

    The moment of birth, the possibilities of childhood, the growing pains of teenage years, the expectations imposed by society on young women: The Visual Feminist Manifesto explores how a woman’s life is crafted by the world around her. We are witness to the ways in which she makes meaning, both from her personal experience and how she is told she must behave, both deeply shaped by patriarchal structures. Repeatedly told that women are “less than”, her behaviour is made small by the threats of shame, fear, and ostracisation. All the while, she is seeking something more emancipatory.

    Farida Baqi brings us into the fold through the life of an unnamed woman in an Arab city, homing in on the experience of a cisgender woman making encounters with heterosexual desire. But the filmmaker’s ode will resonate with many, united through universal emotions of joy, pain, love, and frustration. 

    Contrasting shots depicting the urbanity of an Arab city and the gentle scenery of the seaside, Baqi makes a woman’s life inextricable from the spaces and places around her, all the while hinting at a more liberatory future forged through solidarity.

    – Olivia Popp

    Credits

    DirectorFarida Baqi
    MusicMad Kate | the Tide, HYENAZ, Lynn Adib
    Sound DesignStudio Mitte, HYENAZ
    ScreenplayFarida Baqi
    CinematographyJanne Ebel
    Principal castAmal el-Hani, Lynn Adib, Rosalie Cella, Gaël Abou Jaoude, Michelle Zallouaa, Norah Toledano, Alice Canzonieri
  • HYENAZ : Proximity

    HYENAZ : Proximity

    08 & 10 June 2023Hamburg Short Film Festival

    Presentations

    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.

    The frogs’ reaction to their sense of [in]security led us to draw parallels to how physical and emotional proximity affect human societal relations, a concept we explore in the slime-covered video for PROXIMITY. Released by the poetry journal Interim, this visual artwork lurches and staggers across bodies in motion to ask the question, “Does our Proximity Bind Us?”

    The movement research for the PROXIMITY video began with the performative installation and praxis PROXIMATE MOVEMENTS, which was first researched during Isabelle Lewis’s immersive spaces exploration at Martin Gropius Bau, which was part of the “Welt Ohne Aussen” festival in 2018. It was later performed at Garbicz Festival Poland with Ambrita Sunshine, Adrienne Teicher, Mad Kate, Federica Dauri, Danilo Andrés, Bishop Black and Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau. The movement research around Proximate Movements later evolved into the group CLUSTERFUCK, whom HYENAZ directed and performed with for PEACHES stage show There’s Only One Peach with the Hole in the Middle.

    This track was particularly rewarding in terms of the field recording process from which it began. One night we were camping on the Barmah Lakes in the lands of the Yorta Yorta nation in south-eastern Australia. We had been invited there by Yorta Yorta elder Professor Wayne Atkinson to go “on country” with a group of students, to learn the cosmology and history of his people and their contemporary struggle for sovereignty over lands that were taken by the settler-colonial nation state.

    As twilight settled over the lakes we began to hear these strange clicks and pulses that sounded extraterrestrial, as if some force was mapping the space through sound. We took our recorder out into the marshy wetlands, to try and record this entity, but wherever we were, the sounds were escaping us, it was as if we had a negative force field pushing away whatever this thing was creating these strange sounds. After moving further and further along the banks, but getting no closer to the sound, we decided to stop moving altogether and just listen.

    It was then that the sounds began to approach us, gradually coming closer and closer, more and more of these clicks and pulses until we were subsumed within them and we saw, at our feet a tiny, tiny frog pulsating in our torch light.

    It’s tempting to think about art as a form of mastery but just as often, creating art is as much about giving up control. Through this experience we realised that sensitivity is at the heart of field recording. The frogs established a set of terms that made it possible for us to share space with them and they also taught us that rather than being in a perpetual state of doing, that sometimes the work is more about un-doing or doing nothing.

    The frogs also got us thinking about nearness, safety, and community. How do safety and care shift in relation to physical proximity; how does the grievability, or the extent to which we value and grieve for other lives, change relative to how close we are to them (physically?). What other kinds of proximities exist besides physical ones and how can they be utilised to create networks of care? In the visual work for Proximity, we invited a team of dancers including Adrienne Teicher of HYENAZ alongside Bishop Black, Tereza Silon, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Danilo Andrés and ROC to explore how closeness—physical proximity—shifts our emotional response to each other.

    PROXIMITY is the first in a series of singles, mixed-reality performances and a/v installations entitled Foreign Bodies. The works surface from an ongoing practice of learning from the individuals and communities who move in resistance to, in spite of, and as a result of, the management and control of bodies by nation-states, corporations and other authoritarian actors.

    Proximity was first published in Interim 35.2 – The Body Issue – April 2018 and was presented at the Hamburg Short Film Festival 2023

    Music, Concept, Design, Styling and Editing: HYENAZ
    Choreography: Mad Kate
    Cinematography: Jo Pollux and Raja de Luna
    Movers: Danilo Andrés, Tereza Silon, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Bishop Black, ROC, Adrienne Teicher
    Audio Mastering: Becki Whitton

  • Chokehole: Drag Wrestlers do Deutschland

    Chokehole: Drag Wrestlers do Deutschland

    One hot summer night in New Orleans a drag collective staged wrestling night. They dressed up as their vibrant alter-egos, and proceeded to beat the living daylights out each other while the audience collectively lost their shit. That night, Chokehole was born. This documentary follows Chokehole as they take the show to Germany, sharing the stories of cast members as they grapple with racism, gender conformism, queer identity and America’s suppression of the arts.

    The film depicts the artists both with and without drag, sharing their larger-than-life and theatrical alter egos while displaying the unique vulnerabilities that lie behind the character. This film explores their loud, vibrant personas alongside their heart-breaking personal stories, and the adversity they’ve had to overcome to be accepted in the US. As the documentary progresses, we learn how each character copes with love, sex, transitions, post-trauma, and socioeconomics while offering a glimpse into their fantastical, vivid world… which is as much an escape for the artists as it is for the audience.

    “Chokehole: Drag Wrestlers do Deutschland” is the story of how disenfranchised, queer performers defeated all the odds to make a compelling theatrical show

    Credits

    Director: Yony Leyser
    Music: HYENAZ
    Sound Recordist: Adrienne Teicher & Kathryn Fischer
    Editor: Ruth Schönegge
    Sound re-recording mixer: Cornelius Rapp

    Selected Festivals

    • New Orleans Film Festival
    • Chicago Underground Film Festival
    • Outfest
    • San Francisco Documentary Film Festival
    • Festival of Nations
    • Revelation International Film Festival Perth
  • HYENAZ at ACT Skopje

    HYENAZ at ACT Skopje

    ACT is a project initiated by 10 cultural operators from 10 European countries, working in the field of performing and visual arts. ACT is a project with the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

    In 2023 a group of artists and performers gathered in Skopje, North Macedonia for a program organised by the NGO Lokomotiva. HYENAZ represented the Kampnagel theatre in Hamburg.

  • The Fourth Generation

    The Fourth Generation

    The Fourth Generation, is a homage to Berlin’s vibrant underground and the communities that breathe life into the city. The film is set in a dystopian future, but the themes explored are very real. Queer identity, feminism, sexuality and the intersection of politics and art. In the near future Professional provocateur and artist Maven Shegula has returned to Berlin after a hiatus in Zürich. She’s back to celebrate her 50th birthday, and to appear on a popular German talk show.

    As she wanders the streets of Berlin with her girlfriend and friend, it becomes apparent that being an artist in this city is no longer acceptable. The humming nightlife has disappeared, and the vibrant creative community pushed to the margins of society. The film is alive with tension, both sexual and otherwise. As Maven’s story unfurls on live television, we learn about her son, her politics, her  heritage and her alter-ego Rosa who champions radical self-expression and  feminism. The interview is dispersed with beautiful and volcanic eruptions from Maven that act as both a denunciation of the city’s leadership and a love letter to Berlin.

    Packed full of vibrant fashion, queerness, dark humour and experimental visuals, The Fourth Generation depicts every artists worst nightmare – and the lengths one woman will go to stand by
    what she believes in. The film features a predominantly trans and non-binary cast.

    Selected Festivals

    Premiere – Vienna Queer Shorts Festival

    Credits

    Directed and Written by: Yony Leyser
    Sound Design: Hyenaz (Kathryn Fischer & Adrienne Teicher)
    Cast: Aerea Negrot, Gigi Spelsberg, Yvon Jansen, Daniel Zillmann, Mano Thiravong, Mathea Hoffmann, Chilly Gonzales
    Cinematography: Paul Faltz
    Editing: Hamed Mohammadi
    Art Director: Darko Petrovic
    Production Design: Jeff Schaul, Victoria Shved
    Costume Design: Alexis Mersmann

  • HYENAZ : Perimeter

    HYENAZ : Perimeter

    Streaming: https://listen.music-hub.com/460z3Y
    Buy: https://hyenazhyenaz.bandcamp.com/album/perimeter

    Perimeter is an audio visual work and interactive documentary by HYENAZ, featuring performances by Mad Kate, Adrienne Teicher, Mmakgosi Kgabi, Martini Cherry Furter and Simon(è) Jaikiriuma Paetau. It asks the question: what does it feel like to understand oneself as “just outside” and yet also “just barely inside” an identity, a concept, a philosophy, a group, a family, a home, a situation, a gathering? What is the feeling of just barely belonging? Both inside and outside? What is it like to be “foreign” to a place which is familiar? What is foreign inside?

    Perimeter was exhibited at Come Alive – a multidisciplinary immersive exhibition on sexualities and eroticism at Het Nieuwe Muntgebouw in Utrecht in 2022.

    Adrienne Teicher chose the perimeter of her semi-discarded Jewishness; Mad Kate delved into their relationship with her assigned-female body and sisterhood; Mmakgosi Kgabi explored her complex relationship with the feeling of joy; Martini Cherry Furter danced between notions of the “real” and “performative” self and Simon(è) Jaikiriuma Paetau, who lives between Germany and Columbia, chose the perimeter of the peripheric body and the intersecting lines of race, gender and class present in each of their homes.

    The core of the work is a sharply cut music video, with stunning artistic direction by Yeorg Kronnagel and cinematography by Robert Mleczko, wherein the five artists perform these unstable territories. What they create with their bodies is emotionally raw, yet hyperstylised, allowing visitors to the gallery to witness how playfulness can emerge even in territories which are traumatic. The music elicits associations with the underground techno scene of the city of Berlin in which all five performers live.

    Presented around this nucleus is an interview with each of the artists, which play simultaneously on five separate screens. It was in these interviews that HYENAZ and their collaborators discovered and elaborated their perimeters, giving themselves space to describe in careful detail, aspects of their existence which normally live beneath the surface of awareness. This gives visitors the unique opportunity to look inside, and behind and beyond the subculture of queer performance in Berlin.

    PERIMETER was composed in Bitwig on Ubuntu Linux. The field recordings were collected on slow movement journeys of volunteering and research for FOREIGN BODIES, a project about bodies in relation to each other, bodies in motion, bodies in repulsion and attraction, bodies in migration, bodies in resistance to management and control.

    Every sound is built from field recordings … a scrap of metal against a metal fence atop a hill in Samothraki… a busy cafe in Palermo, speaking to our collaborator and fellow musician Yusuph Suso … the sounds of labour in a refugee aid kitchen in Dunkirk… saxophone samples by Bartłomiej Kuźniak from an ancient cave in Częstochowa … clarinet samples from Alex Spree in Berlin initially recorded for Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution. All the layers of this composition have a story that we will not forget.

    The EP includes the original track plus remixes by IXA and Maya Postepski aka Princess Century.

  • Körper Figurationen Welten

    Körper Figurationen Welten

    Drei Videos zur Einführung in Queer Theorie: KÖRPER, FIGURATIONEN und WELTEN von Antke A. Engel und Filmfetch (Magda Wystub; Tali Tiller), sound design HYENAZ, with English subtitles

    BODIES. FIGURATIONS. WORLDS: Video introductions to queer theory

    Antke A. Engel und Filmfetch (Magda Wystub; Tali Tiller), FernUniversität Hagen 2021

    The videos (german with english subtitles) are freely available as Open Educational Resources (OER) at the following link: e.feu.de/queer-theory-videos or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh98rBDWATF6bkxKNvpR4gQ

    Radio Sendung: HYENAZ featured on Gerecht Sprechen – Über die Lust auf Gendersternchen, neue Pronomen und Co.” by Sabine Rolf on BR2. https://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/nachtstudio/gerecht-sprechen-was-wir-mit-gendersternchen-neuen-pronomen-und-co-gewinnen/1812549?fbclid=IwAR322OFGxSflihKjtyuCWFX5DD4EzdCqMk176SbkkvscssZYntZRtiwvt3o

  • Sivan Ben Yishai: Unsere Stadt aus Vogelaugen / Eine Blutung im Dunkeln

    Sivan Ben Yishai: Unsere Stadt aus Vogelaugen / Eine Blutung im Dunkeln

    Unsere Stadt aus Vogelaugen / Eine Blutung im Dunkeln
    Written and Performed by Sivan Ben Yishai
    Sound Design and Musical Performance: HYENAZ

    Visuals Patricia Bateira
    Production Assistance Luise Heiderhoff
    Translation Maren Kames

    Live Appearances

    Weltecho Chemnitz: 03.10.2021 https://weltecho.eu/
    TD Berlin: https://td.berlin/stuecke/unsere-stadt-aus-vogelaugen-eine-blutung-im-dunkeln
    Münchner Kammerspiele: https://www.tdjml.org/event/tdjml-2020-meets-munchen

    On October 3, 1938, just before Pogrom Night, the city of Dortmund ordered the city’s Great Synagogue to be torn down. On October 3rd, 2020, just a few meters from the square of the Old Synagogue, the city theater opened its season with this text. After Munich and Berlin, the writer Sivan Ben Yishai is performing her text in a special collaboration with the electro duo HYENAZ: “Our city from bird’s eyes / bleeding in the dark” is now in Chemnitz. The performative, musical reading is a meditation on the 35 days of repentance, which lie between October 3 and November 9, and draws an arc from the
    Past to the future.

    UNSERE STADT AUS VOGELAUGEN“ / „EINE BLUTUNG IM DUNKELN“Gedenkfeier des gegenwärtigen MomentsLeseperformance von Sivan Ben Yishai und dem Elektroduo HYENAZ
    Am 3. Oktober 1938, nur kurz vor der Progromnacht, verfügte die Stadt Dortmund den Abriss der Großen Synagoge der Stadt. Am 03. Oktober 2020, nur wenige Meter vom Platz der Alten Synagoge entfernt, eröffnete das Stadttheater seine Spielzeit mit diesem Text. Nach München und Berlin performt die Schriftstellerin Sivan Ben Yishai in einer besonderen Zusammenarbeit mit dem Elektroduo HYENAZ ihren Text: “Unsere Stadt aus Vogelaugen/ Eine Blutung im Dunkeln” nun in Chemnitz. Die performative, musikalische Lesung ist eine Meditation über die 35 Tage der Reue, die zwischen dem 3. Oktober und dem 9. November liegen und schlägt einen Bogen von derVergangenheit bis in die Zukunft.

  • HYENAZ x Jova Lynne : Beyond Possible

    HYENAZ x Jova Lynne : Beyond Possible

    Goethe-Institut: Virtual Partnership Residency
    EXP Award: Goethe-Institut Chicago

    Streaming: https://listen.music-hub.com/HP2FJc

    For Beyond Possible, HYENAZ and Jova Lynne gathered field recordings and visual materials in Berlin and Detroit during July and August 2020, with the intention of finding and creating sanctuary. We took a parallel journey in each of our cities, making three stops: 1-Fire/Hearth, 2-Water and 3-Cosmos. In each of these stations we used the following methodology for gathering our sound and visual samples.

    Methodology

    Grounding. Find a comfortable position where you can relax your body into the location. Think about grounding. If you feel comfortable, come as physically close to the ground as possible. Lie on the ground. Let whatever parts of your body that touch the ground sink deeper into the ground. Concentrate on rooting. Put your sound device on the ground and mm press record. Capture the ambient sounds located there.

    Deep Listening. While letting the recording run, think about the sound that you hear. What sounds do you hear closest to you? What is more distant? What is even further away? Take note. You can also move your body in small micro-orientations to signal that you receive the sound. It could be an arm movement or a very subtle shift in your weight, depending on how you are positioned.

    Articulations. From this grounded space, what words come to mind. Try not to edit yourself. Just say the first words that come to mind. Say them outloud so that they are captured by the device. Don’t worry at first about capturing a good recording, just let the words flow. Once you know what they are, pick up your sound recorder and say the same words again clearly into the microphone.

    Colour. What colour association do you make or feel as you occupy this space? Does the colour have a sound? Does the mood produced by the colour have a sound? Make a sound offering into the microphone, a squeal, song, gurgle, scream … be free
    Immediate concentric circle. From this specific place, take your camera and move slowly around your location in 360 degrees. This is the immediate circle and site of “home”. Move slowly so that you can notice details around you.

    Concentric Circles. Travel with your mind in concentric circles starting with the closest circle and moving out further and further like the skin of an onion. Name what is there and what it means for you, what is its significance, personal, political, contemporary, historical, futurological.

    First sound. Leaving the center of your circle, go towards one of the sounds that you noticed during your deep listening. Get as close as possible to it and press record. Try to record that sound for at least 2 minutes without interruption and, if possible, without ambient interruptions

    Found instrument. Find two objects within and around this site which can produce distinct sound and “play”. For instance, a wire scraped on a bench, or a tin can on the cement ground. Play your instrument while the recorder is set on the ground in a set location and record for at least 2 minutes. Let yourself record both distinct “hits” of the instrument as well as experiments in rhythm

  • HYENAZ : Columns

    HYENAZ : Columns

    Showings

    4th November, 2023
    19:00
    Kino Club
    Lapinlahden Lähde, Helsinki

    Lines That Maintain a violent order / Lines that distinguish a violent event / Those lines do not hold / The forest floor / Leaves like our bodies / Scattered in time

    Our nostrils full of earth / Leaves decay / White lines / Feet march / Lines our bodies form / Are scattered by time / Day is gone / Its heat Is gone / Its sounds gone / As all things return / To stillness

    Columns is a response to militarized violence and to History, specifically the historicising mode which focuses on events and important persona, while blurring events and persona deemed unimportant or inconsequential. Though the track sounds like industrial techno, it is built entirely from vocalizations and organic percussion recorded deep within a cave outside the pilgrimage town of Częstochowa, Poland, with Bartłomiej Kuźniak. It is second in the series of audio visual works and performance interventions entitled Foreign Bodies; works that emerge from the sonic shapeshifting of field recordings gathered in refugee camps, migrant transit centers, ancient stations on paths of pilgrimage, indigenous grounds, and intentional communities. These are places where bodies have been explicitly managed, controlled, feared and annihilated.

    The single, “Columns” is out on Canadian techno label OBSKUR MUSIC, with remixes by Lady Maru, Bad Conscience, Consumer Refund and NVRS. The video, created in collaboration with Xenia Østergård Ramm and Old Erik from the Hackstage artist collective, was produced using analogue video processing to deconstruct footage of stalactites, trees and wind turbines collected in the caves of the Harz Mountains.

  • Instinct

    Instinct

    Selected Presentations

    1st June 2024Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival, Berghain Halle
    2nd July 2021Pornceptual Cinema, Alte Münze, Berlin
    17th September 2021Sexclusivitäten, Berlin
    25th September 2021Queer Art Fest, Rågsveds Folkets hus, Stockholm
    29 September 2020Fusion Film Festival, Oslo
    29 November 2019Dirty Diaries 10 year Anniversary, Stockholm
    24-28 October 2019Porn Film Festival Berlin (honorable mention in the Porn Short Competition)

    Streaming: https://pinklabel.tv/on-demand/film/instinct/#
    Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_p-ydyjIjY

    Instinct is a queer metaphysical love story that weaves itself through real and imagined sexual encounters across darkrooms, forest cruising zones, and highway shoulders. Immersive and deeply layered, the film presents fantastical playgrounds where bodies imagine themselves in a multiplicity of forms and long for encounters without preconceived notions of what other bodies desire, what they will need, or how they should be touched. Instead, Instinct asks: what does it mean to actively (un)learn what we might assume about another body’s sex, gender, and desire?

    A film made by: Ester Martin Bergsmark, Mad Kate, Adrienne Teicher and Marit Östberg
    Starring: Adrienne Teicher, Buffalo Grove, Christopher, Ester Martin Bergsmark, Finn, Jared Gradinger, Liz Rosenfeld, Mad Kate, Mere, MYSTI, Nika, Ocsaj, Paulita Pappel, River Rose, Sadie Lune, Tom Ass, Walter Crasshole
    Edited by: Jasco Viefhues
    Line Producer: Paula Alamillo

  • The MultiVerse in a MouthFuck

    The MultiVerse in a MouthFuck

    A metaphysical trip of self discovery, from the seven principles of Hermetism to the seven keys to master our lives (Inspired by true fuckts)

    Streaming PinkLabel – SexSchool

    Screenings:

    • Berlin PornFilmFestival Berlin, Germany. October 2019.
    • QUEER PORNFILMNIGHT at Compagnietheater Amsterdam, Netherlands. December 14th, 2019.
    • Tsiknotekno Doppelgänger / N Y E Athens, Greece. January 1st, 2020.
    • Excéntrico: Muestra Internacional de Pornografías Críticas Valparaíso, Chile. January 23rd, 2020.
    • ICA Takeovers: INFERNO London, UK. January 29th, 2020.
    • Excéntrico: Muestra Internacional de Pornografías Críticas Santiago, Chile. February 1st, 2020.
    • Hacker Porn Film Festival Rome, Italy. 2020.
    • Hot Bits Festival USA. 2020.
    • Queergestreift Filmfestival Konstanz (Queer Shorts) Konstanz, Germany. September 26th, 2020.
    • Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival Oslo, Norway. September 28th, 2020.
    • Satyrs and Maenads: The Athens Porn Film Festival Athens, Greece. November 20th – 22nd.
    • CineKink NYC, US (online). December 3rd, 2020. HONORABLE BEST MENTION
    • Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival Calgary, Canada. May 21st – 30th, 2021.
    • SECS FEST Seattle, USA (online). September 10th – 12th, 2021. BEST SEX-POSITIVE FILM
    • Porn Film Festival Vienna Vienna, Austria. October 6th – 10th, 2021. BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
    • Post Porn Film Festival Warsaw, Poland. June 7th – 12th, 2022.
    • Fish&Chips Festival Turin, Italy. September 22nd – 25th, 2022.

    Credits:

    • Cast: Rafael Medina, JorgeTheObscene, Sultan of Filth, Schoko Channel, Tristan Rehbold, Medad Rangay, Jo Pollux, Kate Hole, Candy Flip, Mad Kate, Nicky Miller, Gio Black Peter.
    • Written, Directed and Edited by: JorgeTheObscene
    • Sound Design: HYENAZ
    • Director of Photography: Theo Meow, Jo Pollux
    • Assistant Director: Doxytocine
    • Producer: JorgeTheObscene
    • Producer Assistant: Felipe Carrasco
    • Camera: Theo Meow, Michal ANdrysiak
    • Still Photography: Jo Pollux
    • Lights: Michal ANdrysiak
    • Art / Costumes: Mad Kate, Michal ANdrysiak, EXIT
    • Location Sound Mixer & Sound Design: HYENAZ
  • HYENAZ: Clastic

    HYENAZ: Clastic

    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 for homeostasis: we are closer to rocks than we realise.

    The sounds of Clastic emerged from a field recording and electronic production workshop HYENAZ led in the Chiusella valley at CLASTIC – European Performing Arts Residency with the participation of: Durassie Kiangangu, Morena De leonardis, I Patom Theatre, Silvia Ribero, Angie Rottensteiner, Kazalište Nezamislivog Iva Korbar, and Elena Brea Sandin.

  • The Beauty of ReveRso

    The Beauty of ReveRso

    Credits

    Starring: ReveRso
    With Thea Adora Bauer, Chika Takahashi, Julietta la Doll, Yeorg Kronnagel, and Sekou
    Music: HYENAZ
    Make-up Artist: Yeorg Kronnagel
    Costume Design: ReveRso and Yeorg Kronnagel
    Sound Design: Joscha Eickel
    Production Assistant: Leo Carnein, Christoph Brunner
    Director of Photography, Editing, and Postproduction: Lukas Kunzmann
    Written, Produced, and Directed by Brent Adam
    Executive Producer: Rainer Spix @ Who’s McQueen

    Selected Festivals

    • Hollywood International Independent Documentary Award 2018
    • Festival de Cannes Shortfilmcorner 2018
    • Redline International Filmfestival 2018 (4 nominations – winner “Best Documentary Short”)
    • Canadian International Fashionfilm Festival 2018
    • Berlin Fashionfilm Festival 2018 (nominated for “Best Personal Work”)
    • La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival 2018 (7 nominations – winner “Best Cinematography”)
    • London Fashion Film Festival 2018 (2 nominations – winner “Best Accessory Design”)
    • Atlanta Docufest 2018 (winner: “Best Foreign Documentary Short”)
    • Bucharest Fashionfilm Festival 2018
    • White Oryx International Shortfilm Festival
    • Copenhagen Fashion Film Festival 2018
    • Jelly Fest Official Selection 2018
    • Burbank International Film Festival 2018
    • Bokeh South Africa International Lifestyle & Fashionfilm Festival 2018 (nominated: “Best Creative Hair”, “Best Creative Makeup”)
    • International Fashionfilm Festival Sarajevo 2018 (award winner “Best Story”)
  • Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution

    Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution

    HYENAZ composed the original score for this Yony Leyser documentary about the emergence of the Queercore scene and the attendant history of queer and feminist 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 movies, and distribute those movies widely—and slowly, the community you’ve fabricated might become a real and radical heartbeat that spreads internationally. This is the story that Queercore tells, from the start of a pseudo-movement in the mid-1980s, intended to punk the punk scene, to the widespread rise of artists who used radical queer identity to push back equally against gay assimilation and homophobic punk culture.
    Interviewees discuss homophobia, gender, feminism, AIDS, assimilation, sex, and, of course, art. The extensive participant list includes Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, John Waters, Justin Vivian Bond, Lynn Breedlove, Silas Howard, Pansy Division, Penny Arcade, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Deke Elash, Tom Jennings, Team Dresch, and many more.
    Underscoring the interviews are clips from movies, zines, concerts, and actions iconic to the movement. As steeped in the radical queer, anti-capitalist, DIY, and give-no-fucks approach as queercore itself, the movie reveals the perspectives and experiences of bands, moviemakers, writers, and other outsiders, taking audiences inside the creation of the community—and art—so desperately needed by the same queers it encompassed.

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  • HYENAZ : Critical Magic 비평 적 마술

    HYENAZ : Critical Magic 비평 적 마술

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1zSINY70pvrM48HPZKn5pC
    Bandcamp: https://hyenazhyenaz.bandcamp.com/album/critical-magic

    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. Between 8 June 2016 – and 5 July 2018, the complete score was performed in its entirety 28 times (as phases of the moon) as part of the “Probability Praxis Series,” with the help of spontaneous INTERLOCUTORS (volunteer performers) in each location who played a role in linking HYENAZ with the specific site and community context of each performance.

    It was also performed in many more iterations, both in person and online, as partial and micro offerings up and through the final iteration as an online event at the beginning of the corona pandemic in 2020. Critical Magic challenges how bodies enter and interact within the performance space and the binary relationship between performer and consumer. Each show’s location was conceptually mapped together with the interlocutors ahead of the show, and each show was reflected upon through a process of writing and feedback after the show.

    Following the score together, each show revealed the challenges and joys of being together in a room, accessing consent from strangers and near strangers, and how to collectively build up energy. As a marvellous and messy organizing of bodies, positionalities and perspectives, it was always a new performance.

    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.

    Since 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.

    The styling for Critical Magic was designed by Yeorg Kronnagel (makeup design, styling and accessories) and Juan Chamié at House of EXIT (costumes). Critical Magic was mixed by HYENAZ and Bartłomiej Kuźniak, with high definition mastering by Bartłomiej Kuźniak at studio333. We are grateful to Quecke Autonomous Feminist Community for providing the space to conceive the Spectral Rite performance and record the Critical Magic album. We also want to thank our label SPRINGSTOFF for believing in this project and releasing this album into the world, along with Critical Magic Remixed.

    Photo: Claudia Brijbag Urban Spree Berlin 2016

    Presenting this work over two years as an open workshop series called Probability Praxis allowed us to comment and blog about the performances in an effort to improve them, creating a dynamic and unique show every repetition. We want to thank each and every one of our INTERLOCUTORS who have danced live and on screen with us throughout this series. They have helped to create worlds and pictures that they themselves uniquely curated and designed in the moment. 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

    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)

     

  • HYENAZ, Slybee Kim, Nico Pelzer : Spectral Rite

    HYENAZ, Slybee Kim, Nico Pelzer : Spectral Rite

    Showings:

    MULTI-ARTS PROJECT II Annyeong! Hello!
    National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
    27-31.08.2014

    A collaboration between HYENAZ, Sylbee Kim & Nico Pelzer.

    Through the aural and visual act of the procession, Spectral Rite explores the architectural condition and the institutional environment of MMCA Seoul. Berlin-based performance duo HYENAZ incarnate as androgynous celestial beings, beautiful monsters, hybrid street peddlers and warriors for justice. Their presence evokes remote yet acquainted spaces, archaic and future tenses, as they appear within the MMCA as familiar strangers.

    The procession is guided by an analytic approach to the architecture of MMCA Seoul, and implies contemplations around the destiny of a space which could rupture into another field of parallel time that is both history and future.

    HYENAZ presented four musical compositions with lyrics in Korean exclusively composed for Spectral Rite. Each station in the procession is connected by movement transitions and atmospherically sung language. Reacting to the condition of mobility during the procession, the geometry of each costume is embedded with a variety of inventive solutions for acoustic and digital sound experimentation. The pseudo-instruments recall shamanistic tools, weapons of war, futuristic media machines and recognizably mimic existing instruments.

    In Spectral Rite, the voice suggests a pre-linguistic phase of sound, and attempts to overcome language-centered systems as well as the impossibility of translation. The movement visualizes a yearning for a unified hybrid of gender, histories and spaces. Spectral Rite is a wedding of physical bodies and the architecture of the museum. As warriors, HYENAZ intend to prevail over apathy and daily complacency of consumerist and institutionalized city life.

    Credits

    Direction: Sylbee Kim
    Performed by: HYENAZ
    Music: HYENAZ with Nicolas Pelzer, Sylbee Kim
    Lyrics: Sylbee Kim, HYENAZ, Nicolas Pelzer
    Costumes: Juan Chamié for EXIT
    Styling, Objects and Instruments: Yeorg Kronnagel with Rilk Mob
    Projection: Sylbee Kim
    Coordinator: Taejun Kim
    Documentation: Sylbee Kim, Seung-Bum Hong, Nico Pelzer
    Supported by: Korean Cultural Center, Berlin, Mi-Hyun Park (Gayageum)

  • HYENAZ : HYENAZ

    HYENAZ : HYENAZ

    Streaming: https://listen.music-hub.com/nyxmJq
    Buy: https://hyenazhyenaz.bandcamp.com/album/hyenaz

    In their 2014 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 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. 

    Music and lyrics by HYENAZ. Recorded and mixed by HYENAZ at D.I.V.O. Institute, Kolin, Czech Republic, EXIT, Berlin, Germany and Pale Music International, Berlin, Germany.

    Mix tweaking & high definition mastering by Bartłomiej Kuźniak at Studio333

    Album Artwork by Lavender Wolf
    Graphic Design by HYENAZ