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  • S4E6 S.W.E.A.T. with Liz Rosenfeld

    S4E6 S.W.E.A.T. with Liz Rosenfeld
    2025/06/10
    This month's conversation with with transdisciplinary artist Liz Rosenfeld. Liz Rosenfeld is an NYC-born, Berlin-based transdisciplinary artist who works with film/video, performance, drawings and experimental writing practice. Liz addresses the sustainability of emotional and political ecologies, cruising methodologies, and past and future histories regarding the ways in which memory is queered. Their work deals with flesh as a non-binary collaborative material, specifically focusing on the potentiality of physical abundance and excess, approaching questions regarding the responsibility and privilege of taking up space and how queer ontologies are grounded in variant hypocritical desire(s). Their work has been shown internationally in film festivals, museums and galleries, and their film White Sands Crystal Foxes was nominated for Best Experimental Short Film at the Berlinale’s 2022 Teddy Awards. Liz was also one of the nominated artists for the ANTI –Contemporary Art Festival’s 2022 Shortlist Live Award, and their short films are represented by Video Data Bank and LUX Moving Image. They are currently on tour with their new book, Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising, out on Rutgers University Press and co-written with Dr. Joao Florencio. Links: Liz Rosenfeld: http://www.lizrosenfeld.co/ João Florêncio & Liz Rosenfeld, Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising (Rutgers University Press, 2025): https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/crossings/9781978837546/ 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. Cover Photo: Christa Holka
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    53 分
  • S4E5 S.W.E.A.T. with Ahmad Badawy

    S4E5 S.W.E.A.T. with Ahmad Badawy
    2025/05/13
    This month’s conversation is with activist, writer, and engineer Ahmad Badawy. I met Ahmad at the protest encampment in front of the German parliament, where we were both calling attention to Germany’s complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. In the middle of a bitter Berlin winter, Ahmad’s warmth and clarity stood out—his presence at the camp was not only political, but deeply personal, grounded in a long history of activism. We first connected when I shared my interest in organizing freelance workers. Ahmad responded with encouragement, sharing insights from his own experience and reminding me that movements often begin with simple, one-to-one conversations. We recorded this episode on the eve of the Unkurzbar demonstration, during which pro-Palestinian activists were forcibly separated from the rest of the march. It’s a moment that speaks volumes about the urgency of solidarity—and about Ahmad’s continued commitment to human rights. Originally from Egypt, Ahmad was deeply involved in the 2011 revolution and in grassroots labor organizing. He was imprisoned for four years in a maximum-security prison for carrying a sign at a protest that read, “No to the constitutional amendments,” opposing legislation that would have allowed President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to remain in power indefinitely. During his detention, he undertook a hunger strike to protest being held without trial. Ahmad has published widely on politics and resistance, and is a contributor to We Were There: Liberal Young Voices from the Egyptian Revolution. In this conversation, we discuss his journey from Cairo to Berlin, the political lessons he’s carried across borders, and his vision for building inclusive, intersectional movements rooted in universal human rights.
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    55 分
  • S4E4 S.W.E.A.T. with Kim Ye

    S4E4 S.W.E.A.T. with Kim Ye
    2025/04/08
    This month's edition of S.W.E.A.T. with Mad Kate features multidisciplinary artist Kim Ye. Kim Ye is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses performance, video, installation, text, and social engagement. Inserting herself into popular cultural forms, Ye interrogates gendered constructs shaping perceptions of power, labor, and taboo. Presenting bodies as both sites of domination and liberation, her work describes the entanglement between private desire and fantasy, and public discourse and ideology. Through shifting performance contexts, she reinterprets the forces that enforce and reproduce normativity. In 2023-2024, Ye was a Mellon Arts Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and a California Arts Council Creative Corps Fellow. Her work has been funded by the California Arts Council (USA), The National Endowment for the Arts (USA), Foundation for Contemporary Art (USA), Mellon Foundation (USA), and The Australia Council for the Arts (Australia). Her work has been presented at The Getty, MOCA, Guggenheim Gallery, Wattis Institute, Hammer Museum, Banff Center for Arts, Material Art Fair, and Frieze Film Seoul, among others. Ye received her MFA from UCLA in 2012, and was a full-time visiting faculty in the Photography & Media program at CalArts from 2022-2025. Ye has worked professionally as a dominatrix since 2011, and has serves as Co-director of Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles (SWOPLA since 2019). photo: Louisa Fang LINKS! kimye.com instagram.com/kimyekimyekimye instagram.com/swopla swoplosangeles.org https://www.smingsming.com/products/promomme-a-sex-workers-guide-to-parenting
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    54 分
  • S4E3 S.W.E.A.T. with Awadalla

    S4E3 S.W.E.A.T. with Awadalla
    2025/03/11
    This month's conversation is with writer and transdisciplinary artist Awadalla. Their work spans text, performance, and visual storytelling, reimagining how life and knowledge are shaped through queer and decolonial praxis. Alongside their creative practice, Awadalla works at the intersection of mental and sexual health as a practitioner and educator. They founded Decolonizing Sexual Health, an initiative challenging dominant sexual health narratives through lived experience, pleasure, and collective care. More information about them: https://linktr.ee/3awadalla S.W.E.A.T. is a podcast hosted by Berlin-based electronic artist, performer, and activist Mad Kate. Known for their work between body politics and the politics of borders, Mad Kate brings their over twenty years of lived experience on stage, their own queer positionality, and their deep engagement with embodiment, relationality, and labor politics into the conversations that shape S.W.E.A.T. The podcast explores performance and performativity of the sexualized and racialized body at work—whether as labor for survival, care, or a/Art. Through in-depth discussions with artists, organizers, activists, and all kinds of paid and unpaid workers, S.W.E.A.T. contributes to dialogues that normalize sex work as work and advocate for all labor to be respected, fairly compensated, and carried out in safe conditions. S.W.E.A.T. airs first on Freie Radios Berlin Brandenburg via colabora dio, the second Tuesday of every month at 13:00 CET, featuring music curated by the guests. Afterwards, the interview portion is available on all major podcast platforms (apple, spotify, amazon, podcast addict, soundcloud or through rss feed). This podcast is entirely self-produced and a labor of love. You can support its continuation on Patreon.
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    56 分
  • S4E2 S.W.E.A.T. with Kaz Falkenstrom

    S4E2 S.W.E.A.T. with Kaz Falkenstrom
    2025/02/10
    This month’s guest on S.W.E.A.T. is Kaz Falkenstrom—a poet, drummer, and arts activist whose work has left a lasting impact on Tucson, Arizona’s literary and cultural landscape. Kaz has played a vital role in shaping the city’s arts scene, directing the Tucson Poetry Festival, co-founding Kore Press, and creating spaces for women’s voices in publishing. In 2002, she co-founded Odaiko Sonora, dedicating much of her life to the art of taiko drumming. This conversation was recorded in person during a visit to the Sonoran Desert in January. A queer Korean-Norwegian transplant from Virginia to Arizona, Kaz shares how the somatic practices of writing and drumming shape creative expression through movement and rhythm. This episode delves into the complexities of learning another culture’s art form, particularly her relationship to taiko as a Korean-American artist, and the fine line between appropriation, lineage, and respect. The discussion also explores the power of silence and stillness, and the balance between creating space for others and stepping forward for oneself. Finally, Kaz reflects on mastery vs. obsession, selflessness vs. selfishness, and what it truly means to dedicate oneself to a craft. About S.W.E.A.T. S.W.E.A.T. is a podcast with hostex Mad Kate featuring conversations with artists, activists, and thinkers about the ways our bodies are sites of resistance, labor, and transformation. We all sweat—as we care, as we work, as we fuck, as we survive, as we resist. About Mad Kate Hostex Mad Kate comes to this work with a deep commitment to antimilitarism, border justice and radical organizing. A Berlin-based electronic artist, performer, and activist, Mad Kate is known for their work between body politics and the politics of borders. Mad Kate brings their over twenty years of lived experience on stage as an explicit body in performance, and their deep engagement with embodiment, relationality, and labor politics into the conversations that shape S.W.E.A.T.. 🎧 Listen & Subscribe: 🌍 Podcast Website: https://www.alfabus.us/s-w-e-a-t/ 🔊 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/mad-kate 📻 First airs on Freie Radios Berlin Brandenburg (FRBB) via Colaboradio, the second Tuesday of every month at 13:00 CET. 🎙️ Available on all podcast platforms and via RSS. 💜 Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/sweatpodcast
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    53 分
  • S4E1 S.W.E.A.T. with Olympia Bukkakis

    S4E1 S.W.E.A.T. with Olympia Bukkakis
    2025/01/11
    Queen of the Heavens and of the Earth, Empress of Despair, and Architect of Your Eternal Suffering, Olympia Bukkakis is a drag queen, choreographer, moderator, and writer living and working in Berlin. She is inspired by the tensions and intersections between queer nightlife and contemporary dance and performance. 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.
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    49 分
  • S3E12 S.W.E.A.T. with Napuli Paul Langa

    S3E12 S.W.E.A.T. with Napuli Paul Langa
    2024/12/10
    This months conversation is with Sudanese human rights activist and refugee rights activist Napuli Paul Langa. Napuli Paul Langa is a human rights activist who worked for the Sudanese Organization for Nonviolence and Development (SONAD), and is active in the Refugee Movement in Berlin, Germany, who have fought to maintain their place at Orianienplatz since 2013. 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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    45 分
  • 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