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  • S3E11 S.W.E.A.T. with Nadia Says

    S3E11 S.W.E.A.T. with Nadia Says
    2024/11/10
    This month's conversation is with Nadia Says (she/they), the co-founder of creative freelancer platform Your Mom's Agency and inclusivity advocacy network dif eV. Nadia is also an educator, journalist, and consultant in the fields of culture, music business, music tech, and DEI. Mostly based in Berlin, she has connections to the creative scenes of Beirut, Marseilles, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Discover music, readings, podcasts, and videos from their universe and collaborators' on https://yourmomsagency.com, www.dif-ev.org, www.barbieturix.com/author/nadia-says, https://nbhap.com/author/nadia-says, and https://mixmag.net/feature/berlin-creative-community-palestine-protest. And make sure to check Soli Tunes on https://yourmomsagency.bandcamp.com/album/soli-tunes. Your Mom's lends its Bandcamp platform to release a new multi-genre compilation, featuring twelve collaborations of music and visual art by over forty artists who came in solidarity to advocate for Palestinian art, be it music or tatreez embroidery. All proceeds will be donated to a Palestine-based composition and recording studio; they will announce the result of their collection in February 2025. Discover the first six tracks from November 1st, and the next six tracks from December 6th. Picture credit Olcan Akçay
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    48 分
  • S3E10 S.W.E.A.T. mit John Herman auf DEUTSCH

    S3E10 S.W.E.A.T. mit John Herman auf DEUTSCH
    2024/10/08
    Diesen Monat sprechen wir mit dem Autodidakten und Kunstaktivisten John Herman. John Herman ist ein autodidaktischer Kunstaktivist, der sich nicht ausschließlich als Künstler begreift, auch wenn er Aktionskunst performt, Videoinstallationen erschafft und fotografiert. Darüber hinaus war er als Manager für Künstler im Bereich der Globalen Musik sowie als Kurator von Weltmusik-Formaten aus dem Mittleren Osten tätig, wo er mehrere Jahre lebte. Seine Kunst ist geprägt durch seine extremen Kriegserfahrungen aus seiner Zeit als freiwilliger Soldat an der Seite verschiedener Befreiungsbewegungen, u. a. in Afrika und im Mittleren Osten. Kernthemen seiner Kunst sind sozial-politische Kommunikation, visuelle Soziologie sowie Fragen zu "Krieg und Frieden". John Herman lebt und arbeitet in Köln. Wir haben uns entschieden, unser Gespräch sowohl auf Englisch als auch auf Deutsch zu führen. Der Podcast in diesem Monat kann sowohl im Original als auch mit Übersetzung gehört werden. In dieser Folge von S.W.E.A.T. führen wir ein tiefgründiges und nachdenkliches Gespräch über Krieg, bewaffneten Kampf und die persönliche Wandlung vom Kämpfer zum Künstler. Unser Gast erzählt von seinen Erfahrungen, als er in einer Zeit aufwuchs, in der bewaffneter Widerstand vor allem in Europa normal war, und wie diese prägenden Jahre seine Ansichten über Gewalt und Revolution beeinflusst haben. Er spricht über die Entwicklung seiner Überzeugungen, von der Sichtweise, dass der bewaffnete Kampf ein notwendiges Mittel zur gesellschaftlichen Befreiung ist, bis hin zur Infragestellung seiner Wirksamkeit bei der Förderung demokratischer Prozesse. Die Diskussion verlagert sich auf seinen persönlichen Weg der physischen und psychologischen Transformation, nachdem er im Kampf an der Seite der Kurden in der Türkei ein Bein verloren hatte. Er erklärt, wie dieses lebensverändernde Ereignis ihn dazu brachte, seinen Körper und seine Psyche zu entmilitarisieren und die Kunst als Medium zu nutzen, um Traumata zu verarbeiten und komplexe Geschichten zu erzählen. Wir erforschen die Symbolik des Körpers in der Performance-Kunst, insbesondere wie er durch den Einsatz von Prothesen und körperlicher Verletzlichkeit einen kollektiven Prozess mit seinem Publikum schafft.
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    48 分
  • S3E10 S.W.E.A.T. with John Herman ENGLISH

    S3E10 S.W.E.A.T. with John Herman ENGLISH
    2024/10/08
    This months conversation is with self-taught art-activist John Herman. John artistically explores themes of war and peace, visual sociology, and socio-political communication across a rich variety of media—from performances, to video installations, to photography—yet John Herman cryptically resists the title of “artist”. His practice is fed by his extreme experiences of war, when he was fighting as a volunteer soldier alongside global freedom movements in Africa and the Middle East. In the Global Music market, he has worked as an artist manager, tour manager and a curator for World Music concert series focused on the Middle East, where he lived for a decade. We chose to conduct our conversation in both English and German. The podcast this month can be heard in both original German or with a translation. In this episode of S.W.E.A.T., we engage in a deep and reflective conversation about masculinity, performativity, war, armed struggle, and the personal transformation from militant to artist. John shares his experiences growing up during a time when armed resistance was normalized, particularly in Europe, and how those formative years influenced his views on violence and revolution. He speaks about the evolution of his beliefs, moving from seeing armed struggle as a necessary tool for societal liberation to now questioning its efficacy in fostering democratic processes. John also discusses his personal journey of physical and psychological transformation after losing a leg in battle while fighting alongside the Kurds in Turkey. He explains how this life-changing event led him to demilitarize his body and psyche, and to use art as a medium to process trauma and communicate complex narratives. We explore the symbolism of the body in performance art, particularly how his use of prosthetics and physical vulnerability creates a collective process with his audiences.
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    42 分
  • S3E9 S.W.E.A.T. with Julio Linares

    S3E9 S.W.E.A.T. with Julio Linares
    2024/09/10
    This months conversation is with author, activist and economic anthropologist Julio Linares Julio Linares is an economic anthropologist born in the territorios known today as Guatemala. In the last 13 years, he has been a migrant in Taiwan, the UK and Germany. Since 2018, he has served as Public Outreach for the Basic Income Earth Network. His first book “Decolonizing Money” (Pluto Press, 2025) argues for the abolition of the US Dollar as a means to transform the distribution of wealth and power in the planet, in order to bring forth a social ecological just transition. He enjoys giving and receiving massages and doing joyful anarchist resistance across social movements. He is currently based in Berlin. We all sweat as we provide care, as we labour, as we perform our work, as we fuck, as we survive and as we sacrifice one choice for the other. How exactly do we define our work and how does that work entangle and circumscribe our sexual identities, our racialized bodies, 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? These conversations are a means to speak between intersectionalities by anchoring through our (always, already, and ever pervasive) sexualized and racialized bodies, our working bodies, our artistic bodies and our performative bodies. I hope that they contribute to dialogues which normalize sex work as work, and all work as deserving of respect, healthy conditions, and a living wage. You can find out more https://www.alfabus.us/s-w-e-a-t/ Mad Kate (they/them) is an electronic producer, sound designer, performance artist and writer who began working the Berlin performance and club scene in 2004, expanding their unique identity-queering, genderfcking and sexpositive performative work throughout music, theatre and film. Their explorations of borders between/within bodies, audibility, consent, proximity, and touch as political practice have brought them to theaters, communes, technomansions, prisons, dungeons, squats and galleries around the world.
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    51 分
  • S3E8 S.W.E.A.T. with Dr. Shelley Wong

    S3E8 S.W.E.A.T. with Dr. Shelley Wong
    2024/08/13
    This months conversation is with Dr. Shelley Wong, Professor Emeritus at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia in Multilingual/Multicultural Education. Her research interests include womanist, Critical Race and interfaith perspectives on justice, peace and reconciliation; dialogic inquiry, socio-cultural approaches to literacy, and critical multiculturalism. Dr. Wong is co-editor with Ilham Nasser and Lawrence N. Berlin of Examining education, media and dialogue under occupation: The case of Palestine and Israel. Bristol, U.K.: Multilingual Matters. She is also co-editor with Elaisa Sánchez-Gosnell, Anne Marie Foerster-Lu, & Lori Dodson of (2018) Teachers as Allies: Transformative Practices for Teaching DREAMers and Undocumented Students. New York: Teachers College Press. Dr. Wong became involved in the peace movement in high school when she joined Yalim (Daughters of Peace) at the Los Angeles Hollywood Los Feliz Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles and attended demonstrations against the war in Vietnam. She was a founding member of the Asian American Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament in New York in the 1980s. Most recently she was a Fulbright Scholar at Birzeit University in the Occupied West Bank, Palestine. She wrote “From the U.S. Mexican border to Palestine: A call to critical literacy and action for the Scholars Speak Out column of the Journal of Language and Literacy Education. We met up together to attend the July 24th in Washington DC, when thousands of demonstrators gathered to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the United States and his joint address made in Congress. In todays show I also took the opportunity to talk to various demonstrators about how their work dovetails with their activism and their choice to be at the protest, so youll hear various voices of resistance throughout the show. SWEAT 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 -- tasks, acts of care, and identities? Anchored in our always already racialized and sexualized bodies, our complex intersectionalities, these conversations are means of relating through work to each other. I hope that they contribute to dialogues which normalize sex work as work, and all work as deserving of respect, healthy conditions, and a living wage. Music heard in this episode: Mad Kate - My Fear of Pretending (featuring the voice of Lori Baldwin) HYENAZ - Resistance
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    51 分
  • S3E7 S.W.E.A.T. with Demonia Yeguaza

    S3E7 S.W.E.A.T. with Demonia Yeguaza
    2024/07/09
    This months conversation is with Demonia Yeguaza, an activist, performer, and dancer specializing in subversive, contemporary, and voguing dance. From a young age, Demonia’s path has been one of self-discovery and resilience. Through the transformative power of dance, she has navigated the complexities of identity and expression. Her artistic journey is marked by a deep commitment to understanding and embodying her true self, constructing her identity through every movement and performance. Demonia is the Mother of the House of Yeguazas, a cornerstone of the Colombian Ballroom scene and a transdisciplinary artist collective. The House of Yeguazas is a sanctuary where all bodies, processes, questions, and curiosities are embraced. Under Demonia’s leadership, this collective has become a beacon of inclusivity and artistic innovation, fostering a vibrant community that celebrates diversity and creativity. In addition to her work with the House of Yeguazas, Demonia is the director of Frente de Resistencia Marica. This organization is dedicated to advocating for the creation and implementation of safe spaces and differential public policies for the LGBTIQ+ community. Through her activism, Demonia fights for the rights and recognition of marginalized communities, using her platform to amplify their voices and demands. Demonia is particularly interested in exploring the body and movement from the perspective of gender and sexual diversity. She believes that as human beings, everyone should have the same opportunities, rights, and the possibility to live with dignity. This belief drives her to create spaces and experiences where people can reflect on body transit, the pleasure and desire to move freely, and enjoy doing so without being constrained by categories such as "right" or "wrong." As an artivist, Demonia strives to put her work in dialogue with everyday life, society, and public spaces. She believes that art should leave places of privilege, occupy other social spheres, and reach more communities. Viewing her body as her territory, raw material, and place of experiences, Demonia reflects on herself as a political subject, creating knowledge and living unique experiences that allow her to understand herself and navigate a society consumed by capitalism, homophobia, and classism. Dance and movement mold and transit Demonia's body, mind, and political-bodily ideals. Voguing and mariconeo are her political stance and a commitment to defending her preferences and sense of inhabiting the world. She envisions subversive movements, insurgent dancers, and social rebellion, constantly pushing the boundaries of what is possible in dance and activism. We are joined by Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Pateau who helped with translation
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    52 分
  • S3E6 S.W.E.A.T. with Tereza Silon

    S3E6 S.W.E.A.T. with Tereza Silon
    2024/06/11
    This months conversation is with interdisciplinary artist Tereza Silon S.W.E.A.T. Tereza Silon (ona/její, they/them, none), born 1991 in former Czechoslovakia, is an interdisciplinary artist, a performer, performance researcher, poet, experimental herbalist and a bodyworker. their work is often informed by the vegetal and (more-than-)human intimacies, by herbalist practices, vegetal lores, the need of inherent sensuousness of subjective embodiments with/in the world. they feel through feminist queer perspectives, social-natural ecologies and a desire to open spaces for generative intimacy/ies despite extractive systems we are forced to inhabit. As an (ex) activist, they question the balance between necessary care and engagement in prolonged palliative care for structures that need to go. they are currently working on setting up a temporary non-idealized social pleasure clinic for september, give bodywork, are writing a first ´substantial text´ aka are writing a book and are in a process with a performance titled ´good gardens´ exploring lore of the much maligned bella donna and power dynamics in gardening beyond the binary of ´good´and ´bad´. the art ´career´ gives them a chance to also work occasionally multiple nice but precarized and underpaid side jobs. Silon centers queer as well as folkloric approaches, grassroot origins, craving for more ´useless´ beauty enhancing the experience of awe and upholding multiplicities as a form of resistance to the hegemonic world-order. their motivation is (one day soon) the right to play – for all! the dignified work of survival is not enough for a survival alone.
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    54 分
  • S3E5 S.W.E.A.T. with Fariya Mohiuddin

    S3E5 S.W.E.A.T. with Fariya Mohiuddin
    2024/05/14
    This months conversation is with Fariya Mohiuddin. Fariya is the Senior Program Officer, Tax and Policy (Global) at the International Budget Partnership. Since joining IBP in 2019, she has been leading the Tax Equity initiative’s regional and global work as well as providing strategic support to the Tax Equity’s in-country work across Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania. Prior to joining IBP, Fariya was the Strategic Programs Researcher at the Tax Justice Network where she her focus was on developing a human rights, feminist, and gender equality focused network of tax activists and researchers as well as research on the link between human rights and tax justice. In this role, she was an inaugural steering committee member of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice’s Global Tax and Gender Working Group and helped lead the creation of its first strategy framework; she was also the main organizer behind the Global Convening on Women’s Rights and Tax Justice in Bogota in 2017. Fariya has also worked with the International Centre for Tax and Development, the World Bank Group, the Ford Foundation, and Open Society Foundation on research projects on the political economy of accountability, citizen engagement and transparency in relation to taxation. She holds both a Bachelor’s of Arts (Economic and International Relations) and a Master’s of Global Affairs from the University of Toronto.
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    57 分