S.W.E.A.T.

This months conversation is with the The Incredible Edible Akynos. The Incredible, Edible, Akynos (MF Akynos, for short) is a international burlesque performer and curator. A show-stopping entertainer who has curated, headlined, and performed in productions from New York to Europe, she is also a sex worker activist and has been performing burlesque since 2007. Akynos is the founder

S.W.E.A.T. features conversations about performance and performativity of the sexual/ized body at work—work as labour of survival and labour of a/Art with host Mad Kate. This month's conversation is with editor and curator María Inés Plaza Lazo. María Inés Plaza Lazo founded in 2018, together with Paul Sochacki, the multilingual streetnewspaper for art and society, wealth and

This month's conversation is with artist and activist Cassie Thornton. Cassie makes a safer space for the unknown, for disobedience, and for unanticipated collectivity. She uses social practices including institutional critique, insurgent architecture, and “healing modalities” like hypnosis and yoga to find soft spots in the hard surfaces of capitalist life. Cassie has invented

In this new season of S.W.E.A.T. we will dive more deeply into questions around how we organize, vision and dream new strategies for work care and survival. Starting off is a very fresh conversation with two artists and activists Jara Nassar and Joshua Schwebel, recorded on the 7th of January, just one day before a demonstration in front of Berlin's Abgeordnetenhaus, where inside w

This month's episode is with DJ and producer TMSKDJ. The masked DJ (TMSKDJ) born Micheel Nana Adwoa Agyakomah Yeboah is an electronic and African Dance Music DJ and producer based in Accra, Ghana. TMSKD pronounced as THE MASKED is one of the few disc jockeys in Ghana breaking the status quo of Djing with her versatile skill set of introducing and fusing alternative sounds to the Ac

This months episode features Palestinian documentary photographer and visual storyteller Rasha Al Jundi and Palestinian collective experimental designer, artist, architect, and performer Michael Jabareen. Rasha Al Jundi (1984) is a Palestinian documentary photographer and visual storyteller. She grew up in the UAE, after which she moved to Lebanon to pursue higher education. During

This month's show features artist and researcher Elly Clarke. Mad Kate interviewed Elly Clarke in the context of their project with Adrienne Teicher, HYENAZ. For the past two years HYENAZ have been researching cultures of extractivism within field recording and arts in general. Elly Clarke is an artist and researcher. The focus of her multimedia-based artistic work lies on the tran

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 choreo

This months conversation is with visual artist and sculptor Chang Gao. Chang Gao is a visual artist using multiple media in her practice production, like sculpture, hologram installation and photographic languages. Her work overlapped with the field of psychology, aiming to trigger audience’s desire and bodily responses. By exploring the relations between the very personal matter

S.W.E.A.T. features conversations about performance and performativity of the sexual/ized body at work—work as labour of survival and labour of a/Art with host Mad Kate. This episode features artist Mürüvvet Türkyılmaz, whose work delves into the themes of borders, mapping, geography, and memory. We met in the context of Tanja Ostojić's Mis(s)placed Women? collaborative art