This episode features a conversation with Mawuenya Amudzi from 2021. Mawuenya Amudzi (b. 1992) is a Ghanaian artist, administrator for perfocraZe International Artist Residency, Residency Manager at Osramba studio living and working in Kumasi and Accra, Ghana. His works explore the idea of existentialism and material aspects of objects. He works with disused materials (cathode ray tube television set and computer monitors and fabrics) repurposing them into new “alternative” lives.
Amudzi has participated in group exhibitions including Orderly Disorderly organized by blaxTARLINES KUMASI in Accra-Ghana, the inaugural Lagos Biennial dubbed Living on the Edge, Spectacles Speculations, memory and amnesia and Chale Wote festival.
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S.W.E.A.T. Sex/uality. Work. Extraction. Art. Theatr/ics.
SWEAT 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 in common space: as sexualized bodies, as working bodies, as artistic bodies and as performative bodies.
