About me
HYENAZ are sonic alchemists Mad Kate and Adrienne Teicher, who create interactive performances and audiovisual art on the nexus of bodies, power, and audibility.
Their decade-long project Foreign Bodies, to be released digitally, on 17.05.2026 is a series of sonic and performative encounters designed to meet people as relational bodies: bodies in motion, in migration, and in resistance. The work unfolds across various sites of movement and struggle: migrant transit points, refugee camps, detention centers, ancient caves, working mines, indigenous lands, alternative communities, activist encampments, and shelters. Through both volunteer work and collaboration, they recorded interviews and made field recordings to understand these contexts through a sonic lens — to listen to oral histories and ambient soundscapes, to engage with the dissonant and dissident frequencies that reverberate through these liminal spaces.
From these sonic tendrils they composed 10 dance tracks and 11 “in-betweens” which they utilise for their their live performance games, “Animacies,” in which audiences are invited into the circle of relation. In live contexts—whether Berghain, Royal Festival Hall, or SXSW—HYENAZ conspire with their audience to oversaturate control systems with unruly flows of sound and affect. From the slime-strewn choreographies of Knowbody (Maxim Gorki Theatre) to the alienated ecstasy of Automine (Prague’s Cross Attic, Berlin Performing Arts Festival), to the techno-ritual Critical Magic (MIDI Festival Shanghai, Museum of Modern Art, Seoul) their stage works are not spectacles but feedback loops returning energy to bodies sucked dry by modern life.
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