Mad Kate

S.W.E.A.T.

Arts EN ↓ 56 episodes

S.W.E.A.T. >>sex/uality. work. extraction. art. theatr/ics. < < is a series of conversations about performance and performativity of the sexual and sexualized body at work—where work is broadly defined as the labour of survival, the labour of care, creativity, and capital-A-Art. How exactly do we define our work and how does that work entangle and circumscribe our sexual identities, our creative lives and the ways in which we provide care? How do we perform both tasks and identities within the framework of that which we consider work? My hope is that these conversations are a means to speak be...

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S1E6 S.W.E.A.T. with Muhammedu Abubakari 13.09.2022 36:11

Today’s episode features Muhammedu Abubakari, a teacher of Arabic and Quran, a translator, and a skilled tailor. He translates and speaks in conversation with me and Jawo Zaria Graba, a cocoa farmer and Isshak Fuseini, an economics student. Together we toured the forest where they produce crops and shared with me their extensive knowledge of the plants and crops that were growing there – palm and...

S1E5 S.W.E.A.T. with Amina Gimba 09.08.2022 40:26

This episode features a conversation with artist Amina Gimba in 2021 at PerfocraZe International Artist Residency -p IAR in Kumasi, Ghana. Amina is a visual artist and freelance graphic designer from Northeast Nigeria who specialises in simplifying everyday experiences into provocative artistic pieces, using ink, colour pencils, crayons, tie and dye, and graphic design software. We spoke about the...

S1E4 S.W.E.A.T. with Onsoh 12.07.2022 32:04

This month features a conversation with Ghanaian painter and performer Onsoh Edward. Onsoh calls himself a plethora because of his indecisive multidisciplinary artistic attitude. He is known for photography, videography, performance, painting and sculpture. We speak about discrimination against people wearing dreadlocks, the differences between painting for money and painting for therapy, how he e...

S1E3 S.W.E.A.T. with Hiroko Tsuchimoto 14.06.2022 32:39

This episode features a conversation with Hiroko Tsuchimoto, a Japanese-born, Stockholm-based artist caring about and working with humans and more-than-human entities. Over the past ten years, she has been producing performances with audience participation both on stage and in public spaces, yet her interest is currently shifting from front-stage to rehearsals and behind-the-scenes, from egology t...

S1E2 S.W.E.A.T. with Mawuenya Amudzi 12.05.2022 29:59

This episode features a conversation with Mawuenya Amudzi from 2021. Mawuenya Amudzi (b. 1992) is a Ghanaian artist, administrator for perfocraZe International Artist Residency, Residency Manager at Osramba studio living and working in Kumasi and Accra, Ghana. His works explore the idea of existentialism and material aspects of objects. He works with disused materials (cathode ray tube television...

S1E1 S.W.E.A.T. with crazinisT artisT aka Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi 09.04.2022 31:20

This episode is with Va Bene Elikem Fiatsi, also know as crazinisT artisT, the founder of perfocraZe International Artists Residency (pIAR). Va Bene's pronoun is sHit- she he it. sHit is a multidisciplinary “artivist." Through ritual, performance, and installation sHit employs sHits own gender fluid body as a thought-provoking tool to confront issues such as disenfranchisement, social justice, vio...