S.W.E.A.T.

This months episode features choreographer, performer and Queer energetic healer Ambrita Sunshine who recently collaborated with Mad Kate in Berlin on "sweating together" at alpha nova & galerie futura Ambrita Sunshine is a POC Queer artist & performer, actively working on both Europe and West Africa scene. Coming through a multidisciplinary path, she trained as a dancer and choreographer creating a fusion between various disciplines that she loves and practiced for a long time, including BDSM, sexual energy awakening practices, tantra, dance, use of sound and voice. She completed a lots of studies in Energy Healing, Esoteric Traditions in West Africa, Dance Rituals & Sciamanism. Ambrita has devoted herself to research on African movement, specifically regarding the ritual dances of the Ivory Coast, achieving two master's degrees in "Traditional Dances and Esoteric Rituals of the Ivory Coast & West Africa”. Moreover, for a long time she has been working on research about state of trance. She is currently involved in both individual and group energy treatments; teaching meditation techniques and introspective spiritual journeys. She constantly combines all these various aspects of her life. Ambrita travels constantly and for the past three years has decided to be nomadic. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ambrita.sunshine IG: Ambritasunshine https://linktr.ee/ambrita.sunshine 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.