This episode is with Va Bene Elikem Fiatsi, also know as crazinisT artisT, the founder of perfocraZe International Artists Residency (pIAR). Va Bene's pronoun is sHit- she he it. sHit is a multidisciplinary “artivist." Through ritual, performance, and installation sHit employs sHits own gender fluid body as a thought-provoking tool to confront issues such as disenfranchisement, social justice, violence, objectification, internalized oppression, anti blackness, gender, queerness, sexual stigma and its consequences for marginalized groups or individuals.
https://www.crazinistartist.com/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/xx48d3-save-piar
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.
