BIO
(1990) Body_hacker (aka Sall Lam Toro) body_hacker (aka Sall Lam Toro) is a black queer crip trans* mutant, multimedia performance artist, mover, and organiser born and raised in Portugal with Guinean, Cape Verdean and Senegalese roots, based in Copenhagen. Their practice resides within oracular encounters that seek to stimulate, disrupt, and disturb the audience's access to imagination - from the premise that our access to imaginaries /imagination has been heavily colonised and hijacked pre-birth.
Their works orchestrate emotional geographies and politically rooted erotic intimacies between human and non-human species, land, bodies, and ghosts. Such work is rooted in their practice and study of butoh dance and Afro-diasporic / Black transatlantic mediumship traditions and cosmologies.
They hold an MA in performing arts as critical practice from the Malmö Theatre Academy at Lund University.
www.bodyhacker.love // @mar_maresias
Education
28.08.23-06.2025 MA in Performing Arts as Critical Practice at the Malmö Theater Academy at Lund University
07.2021 Butoh Dance Theater Seasonal Training Program with Juju Alishina at Association NUBA Micadanses, Paris, France
23.09.2018 – 16.10.2018 Exploring Japanese Avant-Garde Through Butoh Dance, Keio University
01.09.2014 – 30.07.2018 Bachelor Language & International Studies, English Aalborg University
2009 – 2010 University Diploma of French Studies La Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III University, Paris, France
Selected works
17.07.2026 Meditation on Abel Djassi - text based performance with live theremin and sound sampling part of Diasporic Life: Black Solidarity/Towards Liberation curatorial program. Performed t Metro54, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
08.05.2026 /09.07.2026 Dispel - live interactive performance in collaboration with Alma Silva part of Skabninger_Samlinger curatorial performance and discourse program. Performed at Vermillion Sands Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. Performed at the Dada Museum, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland.
25.06.2026/ 11.09.2025 Wailing curses - live interactive performance-ceremony part of Queer Gaze literary program curated by Felicia Mulinary at Kulturhuset Oceanen, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2nd iteration was performed at Basement Cph curated by Joachim Friis and Filip Grønning.
06.06-13.07.2025 The Disappearing body - mixed media exhibition with Yoshiko Shimada and Aase Nielsen; contributions with mandala installation and performances: “centripetal incorporealities” and “a procession for nirvana: a funeral for your thoughts” on the 19.06 and “catastrophe is... unseeable Nirvana” on the 28.06, at Heirloom Center for Art and Archives; curated by bluestockings (BS)
05-10.11.2024 Correlations: Meetings in the multiverse- as a performer in the inter-disciplinary live performance presented at Kselekt, at the Royal Theatre - Skuespillerhuset, Lille Scene, Copenhagen, Denmark created by Phyllis Akyni
13.09.2024 Body Tongues: A Collective Rage Choir - participatory live performative sharing at Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, Finland, part of Tina Marie Krogh Madsen’s installation “[proximity] sensing in, sensing out”
14-15.03.2024 OBSIDIANA, ESTRANHA, ERÓTICA E ULTRAVIOLETA live performance piece shown at International Performance Art Festival IPAF, Huset Teater, curated by Warehouse9, Live Art Denmark, and Toaster, Copenhagen, Denmark
06.06-10.06.2023, 14.06.2023 OBSIDIAN DREAM LOVE LETTERS VOL I AND II(2023) multimedia installation performance at Den Frie Udstillingsted Bygning produced byDanshallerne forClose Encounters Embodied Journeys Festival andAriel Feminisms, Copenhagen, Denmark
01.12.2022 WE ARE SO EXHAUSTED THAT WE ARE FANTASIZING ABOUT SLEEP(2022) multimedia installation performance at ArtHub as final work presentation for residency program for (Co)Opulence Collective (duo with xiri tara noir), Copenhagen, Denmark.
16.09.2021 CANTOS A OSHUN: IN THE LONGING FOR THE EROTIC, performance piece curated by Interconnected Realities at Åben Dans, Roskilde, Denmark
20.08.2021 DYSPHORIC// DIASPORIC SEAS, performance opening of journal release of Sorthed curated by Nina Cramer and Emil Elg and Anna Vestergaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
11.04.2019 MEDUSA IS GAIAlive performance piece for exhibition opening of Teis Wendt at Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg, DK // 10.11.2019 Diskurs Festival, Giessen, Germany
21.09.2019BODY Q CORPOREAL video and live performance at Rendez-Vous Video art and performance festival at Øst for Paradis in Aarhus (DK).
Artistic Caretaking
12.2025-02.2026 artistic caretaker in house for Lim collective’s Mutual moves care program
11.2023-12.2023 artistic caretaking and consultation for Sara Arenfeldt’s performance work project “Power and Etiquette: 14 pieces of advice to make guests comfortable” for C4 projects