« S.W.E.A.T. » (Sex/uality. Work. Extraction. Art. Theatr/ics): with LIADLAND #48

LIADLAND is a musician, an artist, an activist, a perpetual migrant, a queer trash diva, a Jew from Palestine and a master of the margins. Her music, performances and films de-exotify and de-mystify positions of so-called sexual and political deviants. In them, the body and voice are used as tools of decolonial education, resistance, platforms to display vulnerabilities and as means to call for a revolution, celebrate life, and mourn. Her art and world view is informed by decades of political work on intersectional issues such as sex workers’ rights, queer Palestine freedom. Her debut album ‘Nothing to Declare’ and subsequent EP 'Nothing to Remix' were released in 2024. Her current music and live show focuses on collective ongoing resistance, with Palestine as a starting point. 'Broken' is her upcoming single.

https://liadland.wordpress.com/
https://liadland.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/liadland/

Tracks Played:
LIADLAND - Broken
theme music Mad Kate - My Fear of Pretending featuring Lori Baldwin

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.

Find out more about the podcast and visit the archives here: https://www.mad-kate.com/sweat-podcast/

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.