S.W.E.A.T.
Episodes
S5E3 S.W.E.A.T. with BLEACH
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This month's conversation with punkrocker preacher drag performer activist and promoter BLEACH. Essex raised, Berlin Based Drag performer BLEACH is a ...
S5E2 S.W.E.A.T. with Ramzi Fawaz
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My conversation this month is with queer and feminist cultural historian, educator, podcaster, and public speaker Ramzi Fawaz. https://www.ramzifawaz...
S4E12 S.W.E.A.T. with Sky Deep
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My conversation this month is with producer, musician, activist and creative technologist Sky Deep. Sky Deep is a Berlin-based live performer, multi...
S4E12-SWEAT-PODCAST-Sky-Deep-RC2
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
S4E12-SWEAT-PODCAST-Sky-Deep-RC2 by Mad Kate
S4E12 S.W.E.A.T. with Isaiah Lopaz
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this month is transdisciplinary artist Isaiah Lopaz, whose work revolves around collage, photography, text, and performance. Born in occupied...
S.W.E.A.T. with Dr. Fiorella Montero-Diaz
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fiorella Montero-Diaz is a Senior Lecturer in ethnomusicology at Keele University. She has a degree in Sound Engineering and Piano Performance from Pe...
S4E10 S.W.E.A.T. SPAT back at ya! BLEACH interviews Mad Kate
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's "Spat Back At Ya" positionality conversation, Berlin legend Bleach has SPAT the questions back at host Mad Kate. Every couple of year...
S4E9 S.W.E.A.T. with Sārāh Mārtinus
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month's conversation is with artist and healer Sārāh Mārtinus. Sārāh Mārtinus (she/they) is a research-informed artist and ancestral lineag...
S4E8 S.W.E.A.T. with Chiqui Love
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month's conversation is with erotic performer and activist Chiqui Love. Chiqui Love is a burlesque and striptease artist and storyteller with ov...
S4E7 S.W.E.A.T. with Sami Rhymes
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This months conversation is with Sami Rhymes, an International Award-Winning Spoken Word Artist, Poet and Author from London, UK. She also works in Pr...
S4E6 S.W.E.A.T. with Liz Rosenfeld
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month's conversation with with transdisciplinary artist Liz Rosenfeld. Liz Rosenfeld is an NYC-born, Berlin-based transdisciplinary artist who wo...
S4E5 S.W.E.A.T. with Ahmad Badawy
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month’s conversation is with activist, writer, and engineer Ahmad Badawy. I met Ahmad at the protest encampment in front of the German parliame...
S4E4 S.W.E.A.T. with Kim Ye
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month's edition of S.W.E.A.T. with Mad Kate features multidisciplinary artist Kim Ye. Kim Ye is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompa...
S4E3 S.W.E.A.T. with Awadalla
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month's conversation is with writer and transdisciplinary artist Awadalla. Their work spans text, performance, and visual storytelling, reimagini...
S4E2 S.W.E.A.T. with Kaz Falkenstrom
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month’s guest on S.W.E.A.T. is Kaz Falkenstrom—a poet, drummer, and arts activist whose work has left a lasting impact on Tucson, Arizona’s...
S4E1 S.W.E.A.T. with Olympia Bukkakis
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Queen of the Heavens and of the Earth, Empress of Despair, and Architect of Your Eternal Suffering, Olympia Bukkakis is a drag queen, choreographer, m...
S3E12 S.W.E.A.T. with Napuli Paul Langa
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This months conversation is with Sudanese human rights activist and refugee rights activist Napuli Paul Langa. Napuli Paul Langa is a human rights ac...
S3E11 S.W.E.A.T. with Nadia Says
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month's conversation is with Nadia Says (she/they), the co-founder of creative freelancer platform Your Mom's Agency and inclusivity advocacy net...
S3E10 S.W.E.A.T. mit John Herman auf DEUTSCH
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Diesen Monat sprechen wir mit dem Autodidakten und Kunstaktivisten John Herman. John Herman ist ein autodidaktischer Kunstaktivist, der sich nicht au...
S3E10 S.W.E.A.T. with John Herman ENGLISH
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This months conversation is with self-taught art-activist John Herman. John artistically explores themes of war and peace, visual sociology, and soci...
S3E9 S.W.E.A.T. with Julio Linares
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This months conversation is with author, activist and economic anthropologist Julio Linares Julio Linares is an economic anthropologist born in the t...
S3E8 S.W.E.A.T. with Dr. Shelley Wong
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This months conversation is with Dr. Shelley Wong, Professor Emeritus at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia in Multilingual/Multicultural Ed...
S3E7 S.W.E.A.T. with Demonia Yeguaza
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This months conversation is with Demonia Yeguaza, an activist, performer, and dancer specializing in subversive, contemporary, and voguing dance. From...
S3E6 S.W.E.A.T. with Tereza Silon
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This months conversation is with interdisciplinary artist Tereza Silon S.W.E.A.T. Tereza Silon (ona/její, they/them, none), born 1991 in former Czec...
S3E5 S.W.E.A.T. with Fariya Mohiuddin
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This months conversation is with Fariya Mohiuddin. Fariya is the Senior Program Officer, Tax and Policy (Global) at the International Budget Partnersh...
S3E4 S.W.E.A.T. with The Incredible Edible Akynos
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This months conversation is with the The Incredible Edible Akynos. The Incredible, Edible, Akynos (MF Akynos, for short) is a international burlesque ...
S3E3 S.W.E.A.T. with María Inés Plaza Lazo
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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/Ar...
S3E2 S.W.E.A.T. with Cassie Thornton
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month's conversation is with artist and activist Cassie Thornton. Cassie makes a safer space for the unknown, for disobedience, and for unanticip...
S3E1 S.W.E.A.T. with Jara Nassar & Joshua Schwebel
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 sur...
S2E12 S.W.E.A.T. with TMSKDJ
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Danc...
S2E11 S.W.E.A.T. with Rasha Al Jundi & Michael Jabareen
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This months episode features Palestinian documentary photographer and visual storyteller Rasha Al Jundi and Palestinian collective experimental design...
S2E10 S.W.E.A.T. with Elly Clarke
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This month's show features artist and researcher Elly Clarke. Mad Kate interviewed Elly Clarke in the context of their project with Adrienne Teicher, ...
S2E9 S.W.E.A.T. with Ambrita Sunshine
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This months episode features choreographer, performer and Queer energetic healer Ambrita Sunshine who recently collaborated with Mad Kate in Berlin on...
S2E8 S.W.E.A.T. with Chang Gao
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This months conversation is with visual artist and sculptor Chang Gao. Chang Gao is a visual artist using multiple media in her practice production, ...
S2E7 S.W.E.A.T. with Mürüvvet Turkyilmaz
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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/Ar...
S2E6 S.W.E.A.T. with Montserrat Gardó Castillo
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation features artist Montserrat Gardó Castillo and is led by Mad Kate and Adrienne Teicher in the context of their work on cultures of e...
S2E5 S.W.E.A.T. with Thomas F DeFrantz
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This month features professor, writer and dancer Thomas F. DeFrantz in conversation with HYENAZ (myself + Adrienne Teicher) in the context of our proj...
S2E4 S.W.E.A.T. with Lori Baldwin
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features performance artist, writer and director Lori Baldwin who shares some of her pandemic hustles and her latest work with OONA about...
S2E3 S.W.E.A.T. with Donato Laborante
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
S.W.E.A.T. (Sex/uality. Work. Extraction. Art. Theatr/ics) with Donato Laborante S.W.E.A.T. features conversations about performance and performativi...
S2E2 S.W.E.A.T. with Imre Szeman
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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/Ar...
S2E1 S.W.E.A.T. with Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features excerpts from three different interviews with interdisciplinary artist Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau. They share thoughts on fundin...
S1E9 S.W.E.A.T. with Mad Kate on Positionality
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This final episode of 2022 closes out the first season of S.W.E.A.T. with a personal note. I’ll be speaking about my own positioning as I come into ...
S1E8 S.W.E.A.T. with Justice aka Karyka
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Justice aka Karyka is a Nigerian IT student living and working in Kumasi Ghana. When we met he was running a barber shop part time and I was looking f...
S1E7 S.W.E.A.T. with Eryka Dellenbach
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eryka Dellenbach (b. Chicago) is an experimental filmmaker, dancer and interdisciplinary performance artist based in Tucson, Arizona. They approach fi...
S1E6 S.W.E.A.T. with Muhammedu Abubakari
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode features Muhammedu Abubakari, a teacher of Arabic and Quran, a translator, and a skilled tailor. He translates and speaks in conver...
S1E5 S.W.E.A.T. with Amina Gimba
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a conversation with artist Amina Gimba in 2021 at PerfocraZe International Artist Residency -p IAR in Kumasi, Ghana. Amina is a ...
S1E4 S.W.E.A.T. with Onsoh
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month features a conversation with Ghanaian painter and performer Onsoh Edward. Onsoh calls himself a plethora because of his indecisive multidis...
S1E3 S.W.E.A.T. with Hiroko Tsuchimoto
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a conversation with Hiroko Tsuchimoto, a Japanese-born, Stockholm-based artist caring about and working with humans and more-tha...
S1E2 S.W.E.A.T. with Mawuenya Amudzi
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a conversation with Mawuenya Amudzi from 2021. Mawuenya Amudzi (b. 1992) is a Ghanaian artist, administrator for perfocraZe Inte...
S1E1 S.W.E.A.T. with crazinisT artisT aka Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi
09 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is with Va Bene Elikem Fiatsi, also know as crazinisT artisT, the founder of perfocraZe International Artists Residency (pIAR). Va Bene's...