S.W.E.A.T.

About S.W.E.A.T.

S.W.E.A.T. >>sex/uality. work. extraction. art. theatr/ics.<< is a series of conversations about performance and performativity of the sexual and sexualized body at work—where work is broadly defined as the labour of survival, the labour of care, creativity, and capital-A-Art. How exactly do we define our work and how does that work entangle and circumscribe our sexual identities, 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? My hope is that these conversations are a means to speak between intersectionalities by anchoring through our always already sexualized bodies, our working bodies, our artistic bodies and our performative bodies. This show is a labour of love. Please support S.W.E.A.T. on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/sweatpodcast S.W.E.A.T. hostex Mad Kate is a Berlin-based electronic artist, vocalist, and producer who fuses sound, performance, and activism into a singular, immersive experience. Rooted in a background of writing and queer feminist, sex-positive performance art, Mad Kate weaves together interviews, field recordings, and vocal manipulations with raw, pulsating synthesizers to explore the porous borders between bodies, identities, and geographies. With a sonic language shaped by storytelling and embodied experience, Mad Kate’s compositions interrogate the personal as a lens for understanding collective realities—how power structures inscribe themselves onto intimacy, how movement across borders reshapes identity, and how world-building through imagination disrupts existing narratives. Whether through hypnotic, shape-shifting club compositions or experimental soundscapes, their work pulses with a deep commitment to sonic activism, carving out space for new forms of relationality and resistance. Mad Kate’s performances are immersive and confrontational, collapsing the boundary between artist and audience, body and machine. Their sonic explorations have been featured in venues and festivals across Europe, where they continue to push the boundaries of electronic music as a site of both political critique and radical pleasure. www.mad-kate.com podcast cover photo by Onsoh Studios

Publisher

Mad Kate

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Apr 2022

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

56 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   S5E10 S.W.E.A.T. with Verónica Aristizábal and Ilok Inti Trujillo

   This month's conversation is with Verónica Aristizábal and Ilok Inti Trujillo S.W.E.A.T. Verónica Aristizábal is a Colombian industrial designer, educator, and trans activist bridging community project management with creative, pedagogical strategies. With deep roots in grassroots organizing and mutual-care networks across Colombia and Latin America, she has served as a core facilitator and advocate within the movement for the Ley Integral Trans. Currently, through Juguetería TRANSensual, she merges tactical design, sexuality, and community empowerment to create spaces of pleasure, learning, and autonomy. Verónica is dedicated to weaving international alliances, connecting trans grassroots activism and mutual-care infrastructures between Latin America and Europe to build sustainable, cross-border networks of collective support. Ilok Inti is a travesti, non-binary, agender, autistic, and disabled person from Colombia, a popular educator, and an activist for the rights of trans and non-binary people, committed to collective building. They are a co-founder of La Juguetería TRANSensual, a collective rooted in trans, non-binary, disabled, and neurodivergent experiences, working to imagine new ways of inhabiting eroticism, exploring pleasure, and creating our own narratives around desire. Through the creation of sensory erotic toys, fanzines, workshops, and spaces for gathering, the collective seeks to transform dominant narratives about our bodies and sexualities. Through this work, desire, pleasure, and eroticism become territories of resistance, creativity, and freedom. Ilok Inti on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ilok_inti/ Verónica Aristizábal on Instgram: https://www.instagram.com/veronica__aristizabal/ La Jugueteria TRANSensual - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lajugueteriatransensual/ Ley integral trans ya - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seraleytrans/ La Jugeteria TranSensual: https://lajugueteriat.wordpress.com/ 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.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.

2. 

   8 Sept 2026

   S5E9 S.W.E.A.T. with Patric da Cunha

   This months conversation is with dancer, choreographer and writer Patric da Cunha. Patric is a queer Brazilian performer and artist working between writing, dance and sound. A graduate of P.A.R.T.S., trained at EDA and the NEFCD program in Sweden, Patric develops a practice that investigates new perspectives of the body, drawing on history and identity to explore memory, rhythm, and transformation. Rooted in blackness and decolonization, their work moves through non‑linear temporalities where poetry, presence, and movement shape the body as a site of encounter between what is remembered and what is yet to come. I reached out to Patric because I was inspired by their Instagram reels about decolonizing dance. In one post Patric writes, "contemporary dance is not a neutral description but a colonial framing of the present. when we talk about contemporary dance, we see a curated set of styles defined by european instituations." Photo of Patric by Diana Tishchenko Songs played Mad Kate - My Fear of Pretending (featuring Lori Baldwin) Writers mentioned: Ailton Krenak and Nêgo Bispo

3. 

   11 Aug 2026

   S5E8 S.W.E.A.T. with Mykki Blanco

   My conversation this month is with American rapper, performance artist, writer, and poet Mykki Blanco. Blanco just announced his newest album since 2022's _Stay Close to Music_ — it's called _CAFE PARADISO_, out September 4th via Transgressive Records, which includes three videos shot in and around Berlin. I had the pleasure of speaking with him from his home in Tangier, Morocco, where he recently moved after years living between Lisbon, Paris, and Switzerland. Blanco has been an outspoken voice in music since the early 2010s, when he first emerged from New York's underground scene — fighting, in his own words, to be seen as an artist first in an industry that wasn't always ready for him. He's been publicly living with HIV for a decade, using songs like "Carry On" to push back on stigma, and before he ever picked up a mic he was a poet, publishing his first book, _From the Silence of Duchamp to the Noise of Boys_. He reflected with me on performance as connection — what it means to hold a stage alone for an hour with nothing but his own instincts — and we closed out talking about the global economy, the gap between billionaires and everyone else, and what care looks like right now inside artist communities that are struggling to get by.

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5.0 / 5

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Engagement

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