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 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 Accra music scene often electronic and African Dance genres into her live performances.
As a young and gifted DJ, mostly conservative reflecting a persona of an introvert, she uniquely came up with the masked concept in 2015 to highlight her craft as a DJ albeit the curiousness of most audiences to focus on her gender as a female rather than her eminent craft.
Rising from a campus room party DJ in 2013 to one of the few DJs spearheading an alternative touch to the African music scene, TMSKDJ keeps showing an improved skill set when it comes to the turntables.
TMSKD created the Eargasm EDM show and is part of the alternative pool of DJs led by DJ Benjamin Le Brave of Akwaaba Music.
https://www.instagram.com/tmskdj/?hl=en
https://soundcloud.com/platform/tmskdj-boiler-room-accra-oroko
https://linktr.ee/tmskdj
Tracks Played:
My Fear of Pretending - Mad Kate featuring the voice of Lori Baldwin
Osama - Performed by Kasango Zakes Bantwini Written by Bonga NtoziniKasmario Ike FankisNana AttaZakhele Madida
The Rapture Pt.III - Performed by &MEBlack CoffeeKeinemusik
Uwrongo - Performed by
Ami Faku, Black Motion, Prince Kaybee, Shimza Written by Ami Faku, Ashley Raphala Kabelo Motsamai Robert Bongani Mohosana Roy Thabo Mabogwane
Vula Mlomo - Shimza Remix Edit Performed by Musa KeysNobantu VilakaziShimzaSir Trill
Written by KHOLOFELO , ASHLEY RAPHALAMusa MakamuMzwakhe Tumelo ZwaneNobantu VilakaziWe 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.
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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.
