Upcoming Sharings.
MA WORK IN PROGRESS SHARING
image credit: one-hour-with Sall (aka bodyhacker) event at Hautscene photo by Louise Herrche Serup and re-edited into a collage by Sall Lam Toro
Water stirs our grief:a choir of tears (2025-)
A site specific sound installation with a durational live performance happening to be presented in a harbor, in Malmö based on the first chapter of my MA thesis (connected to my studies at the Malmö Theater Academy (THM) at the MA Performing arts as critical practice with social focus) - “WATER STIRS OUR GRIEF: A CHOIR OF TEARS”. The chapter becomes a sonic meditation on water as a primordial element of a (meta)physical garden of revolt based in Copenhagen where an array of voices speak and scheme this garden into existence surrounding different aspects of life around it. The project develops as a collaboration between Amalia Cecilia Garay Lukács, Auria Paz, Skrot and Community kulturcentrum.
The live performance version draws on text, sound from the installation to be experienced with live aspects and movement. The audience is invited to come and go (information might change) and to participate in the space with some instructions.
To be presented at the harbour on the 22.05.2025 from 15:00 (until 18:00)
sign up at salllamtoro@bodyhacker.love
Address: harbour at Lodgatan (close to Community Kulturcentrum)
211 24 Malmö, Sweden
Credits:
creator, writer, performer, direction and costume styling: Sall Lam Toro
sound composition and engineering: Amalia Lukacks and Auria Paz
sound work support and scenography: SKROT
choreographic consultant and support: Duo Mutsumineiro
text feedback: Felicia Mulinari
conversation partners and interviews with: Auria Paz, Yancé-Myah Harrison, Bella Normark and RABELADES
hosting and coordination support: Community kulturcentrum
partners: Hosting Lands and Community kulturcentrum
Disappearing Body - Becoming Tsujimura
Image credit: Photographer unknown, c. 1970
“The exhibition Disappearing Body - Becoming Tsujimura presents the contemporary Japanese artist Yoshiko Shimada in collaboration with Danish-based artists: composer and sound artist Aase Nielsen and performance artist Sall Lam Toro. Together they examine the legacy of the pioneering Japanese dancer and performer Kazuko Tsujimura (1941-2004).
As part of the Japanese post-war avant-garde, artist Kazuko Tsujimura was active from the 1960s onwards. Here she was involved in numerous collaborations, groups and collectives across art forms, and introduced the concept of "dance without body, without dancing". Despite Tsujimura's extensive oeuvre, posterity overlooked her seminal work. A rich archive of photographic material from performances, acts and fragmented installations remained in unopened stacked boxes at her brother's home until 2023, when Yoshiko Shimada secured the material's entry into the Keio University Art Center’s archive, Tokyo.
In Disappearing Body - Becoming Tsujimura, the archive material is publicly presented for the first time. Across time and space the exhibition title intertwines Tsujimura's lifelong artistic and spiritual explorations of body, dance and movement with Shimada's innovative performance and archival practice. For decades, Shimada has centered overlooked female artistic practices in her works and reactivated artistic kinships by performing and paraphrasing concepts, identities and bodies anew.
The exhibition at HEIRLOOM presents the extensive archival material together with works by Shimada, Sall Lam Toro and Aase Nielsen. Here it recontextualizes Tsujimura’s oeuvre through performances, re-enactments and interventions within the exhibition space, and explores topics such as rituals, spiritual practice, kinship and collective memory.
Disappearing Body - Becoming Tsujimura is curated by bluestockings (bs) in collaboration with Keio University Art Center’s archive.”
Text by bluestockings(bs)
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
(solo) 19 June 2025 from 17:00 onwards (durational) until 21:00
28 June 2025 16:00 with Aase Nielsen
HEIRLOOM
center for art and archives
Sølvgade 36, st. tv
DK-1307 Copenhagen K
Denmark