kitoki

a videodance by HYENAZ

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. theme: music video

A UNIVERSAL HOSTILITY

The Clown

Fiasko

we have come together to fall apart

VideoDance_ OpenCall

If you would like to have your artwork represented in our gallery and partnering venues, send us your application.

For its first edition we are welcoming videodance artwork within these themes:

poetry
popular culture
animation
empowerment
music video

VideoDance_ Conditions

Artists can send in 1 artwork per theme.
Maximum video duration is 25 minutes.
If you remix artwork, mention your sources.
No registrations of existing pieces for stage.

KITOKI can present your artwork on its website and at exhibitions by its partners.

By sending us your artwork, you declare that you have full ownership of your artwork and agree that it can be presented by KITOKI and its partners.

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KITOKI_ VideoDance

VideoDance artworks will be presented in our online gallery and a selection will be exhibited at these partnering venues in 2025:

February: rez gauche, Brussels

March-April: au jus, Brussels. Apply before 20 march

April-May: contredanse, Brussels. Apply before 20 april.

September: bosangani festival, Kinshasa. apply before 20 august.

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VideoDance_ Artists

For our 2025 edition of Kitoki_VideoDance artworks by these artists will be presented in our online gallery and partnering venues.

Marta Łyżwińska, Zuza Jeglorz, Julia Dutkiewicz, Efa Hoffmann, Hyenaz, Lilia Li-Mi-Yan and Katherina Sadovsky, Emma Bexell, Paulina Michta, Studio Artîlerie, Sam Fuentes; Ingeborg Meier Andersen; Prix Garanti, Laura Meier Andersen, Rebecca Lanzoni, Maan Methven, Izabela Nykiel, Daniela Delerci, Mary&Me, G A U S S, Ivana Larrosa, Gustavo, Jungeun Kim, Lucas Brown, Elahe Rajabiani, Hanna Kortus, Felicia Nilsson, Shoko Tamai, Marijn Celea, Camilla Montesi, Aurora Brocchi, Superbe, Zoe Rappaport, Charly Santagado, Ana Baer & Heike Salzer, Jessica Tucker, Georgina Abreu, Tomo Sone, Marlen Puello, Luki, Luisa Spina, Eleonora Cutini, Paula Rechtman Bulajich, Marion Sparber, Myrna Renaud, Ana G. Delgado, Nejla Yatkin, Nereo Zamitiz, Mark van Hoek, Mehdi Mojahid, Julian Gypens, Ira Goryainova & Audrey Apers, Ana Van Tendeloo, Johannes Christopher Gérard, Guido Sarli,Cristina Emmel, Gitte le Bruyn, Anabella Lenzu, Andreia Reis do Paço da Silva Afonso, Synaptic Body, Billy Schultz, Corali Dance Company, Pom Bouvier, Wolf & Swan Company, Wilma Casal, Jacob Lambrecht, Ivan Nikonoroff, Marianna Slobodian, Silvia Giordano, Shum, Timmey Artez, Victoria Gibson, Vix media, Irene Charitopoulou, Ilaria Orlandini, Dan Farberoff, Alex Olteanu, Sophie Gisbertz, Britney Always feat. Socialist Herbalism, Caroline Hayeur et Sarah Bild, Tori Lawrence, Robin Devroedt, Sven Verhaeghe, Anabella Lenzu, Emma Schild, Stella Stylianou & Sarah Dameh, Diamanto Hadjizacharia, Igor Krasik, Katarzyna Zakrzewska, Michel Kurylak, Fanni Futterknecht, African Roots Company, Daria Evseeva, Francesca Pedullà, Felicity Chang, Merel Hamers, Bruno Senune & Daniel Pinheiro, Churi K Potrykus, Jo Zahn, Zrinka Užbinec, Ida Daniel, Todor Stoyanov, Catherine Contour et Mathieu Bouvier, Elettra Giunta, Susana García Dorta, Iga Szczeapańska-Gieracha, Freya Björg Olafson, Zander Porter, James Batchelor, Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik, Primož Korošec, Bowrain, Luka Karlin, colline etienne, Duo Entre Eux Deux, Manon Servage, Carla Jordao, Paul Scott Bullen, Yamile Anaid Navarro Luna, Cristina Negucioiu, Johan Legraie, DŌTŌ, Silvia Marcantoni Taddei & Massimo Sannelli, Albert Negredo, Andreas Antonopoulos, Deboleena Paul, Masha Shcherbyna, May Kesler, Snigdha Prabhakar, Athanasia Kanellopoulou, Dana Ruttenberg and Oren Shkedy, Gisela Ferreira, Alessia Stracuzzi, Elpiniki Zaira, Natalia Monakhova.