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SWEAT Kumasi Part 1 of 2

from SWEAT Kumasi by Mad Kate

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SWEAT is an immersive sound installation and performance intervention that features sonic contributions and auditory imprints from laboring bodies at work, as well as recorded conversations about performance and performativity of the sexual/ized body at work—work as labour of survival and labour of a/Art.

The sonic landscape of this work has been woven exclusively from field recordings gathered in and around Kumasi, Ghana, ultilizing pIAR (perfocraZe International Artist Residency) as first site of home and expanding outwards to synchronistic encounters, intuitively following the body at work. The conversations are less a sonic research archive than they are a means to speak across intersectionalities by anchoring in common space: as sexualized bodies, as working bodies, as artistic bodies and as performative bodies. These are the sounds of sweaty bodies: labouring, dancing, fucking, sacrificing and surviving.

In focus is the auditory and audibility; which bodies can be heard and which bodies are silenced by the audible? What happens in the dark? What is felt or sensed in the quiet space between bodies, placed within and contexualized by the pounding loudness of our sweaty bodies at work?

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from SWEAT Kumasi, released August 15, 2023
Sonic Contributions and Quoted interviews in order of appearance:

PART 1

ONSOH
Patrick Quarm
Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT]
Muhammedu Abubakari
Mawuenya Bubu Amudzi
Ester Nyante
Champion Rolie
Samuel Kortey Baa
Amma
Hiroko Tsuchimoto
Adwoa Kesewaa Gaisie

PART 2

Martin Toloku
Mawuenya Bubu Amudzi
Eryka Dellenbach
Isshak Fuseini
Muhammedu Abubakari and his students
Jawo Zaria Graba
Onyekwere Justice Ugochukwu aka Karyka
Amina Gimba

Zoë Binetti (ramba box percussion)
Eryka Dellenbach (tap shoes)

Mixing and Mastering Andreas Maan
2021

Album Painting ONSOH Studios

Thank you pIAR!

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Mad Kate is an electronic producer and performer who began working the Berlin performance 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 stages around the world. ... more

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