« S.W.E.A.T. » (Sex/uality. Work. Extraction. Art. Theatr/ics): with Nadia Says #31
Nadia Says is is the co-founder of creative freelancer platform Your Mom's Agency and inclusivity advocacy network dif eV; she is also an educator, journalist, and consultant in the fields of culture, music business, music tech, and DEI, mostly based in Berlin, and with 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; we will announce the result of our collection in February 2025.
Discover the first six tracks from November 1st, and the next six tracks from December 6th.
On todays show we will feature the following tracks:
Marwa x Venusloc | Liberation Daydreams
Taj Bell | I Can't Breathe, Strip Down remix
Mad Kate x Nouna | The Seams Between
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.