Upcoming Sharings.
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 20:30
(collaborative) 28 June 2025 15:00-16:00 with Aase Nielsen
HEIRLOOM
center for art and archives
Sølvgade 36, st. tv
DK-1307 Copenhagen K
Denmark
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 final work in progress sharing of a site specific sound installation with a live performance happening unfolds at the Community Kulturcentrum in Malmö on the 22nd May 2025 from 15:00 to 18:30. In collaboration with Alex and Jonas Snarl from the centre, Amalia Garay, Auria Paz and Skrot we stage the first chapter of Sall Lam Toro aka body_hacker’s thesis - “WATER STIRS OUR GRIEF: A CHOIR OF TEARS”. We invite you into an ecoerotic sonic meditation where an array of voices speak and scheme a garden into existence based on three acts:
Act I - represents water as a primordial element of a (meta)physical garden of revolt; this act introduces embodied and unembodied characters that exchage poems amongst each other but also speak them from a same body. These fragments will be useful for further journeys we will take together.
Act II – represents a water journey on the train between Copenhagen - Malmö where voices reflect on the oceanic water that lays under the öresund bridge as a sensuous body that evokes grieving modes due to border violence.
Act III - represents a water journey into the strait of Gibraltar in the atlantic ocean where orcas plot different throwings of boats ignited by the presence of millions of ghosts previously having lost their lives during the atlantic slave trade, and within modern migrating routes crossing the African and European continents.
The sound weaves elements from specific locations, memories, nature elements, voices and an aspect of non-linear time where past, present and future blend and crossover. These sounds reflect erotic relationships between the inner livings of human and non-human bodies allowing the spectator to become a witness and an active participant of this universe.
The performance aspect activates each of the areas of the sound installation with ritualistic acts, semi-improvised movement based on practices of body_hacking - a movement practice and a modus operandi / a mode of embodiment of ecoeroticism that resists all the ways our bodies, our capacity to feel, sense and connect has been colonized and continuously hijacked under capitalism. Body_hacking attempts to connect the seen and the unseen, matter and ghosts, the sensuous, the metaphysical and the poetic into bodies.
SCHEDULE
22nd May 2025 at CKC, Lodgatan 3B, Malmö, Sweden
15:00-15:25 – Arrival and welcoming - our host, Jonas will be introducing the space
15:30 - 16:00 - Performance 1
16:00-16:30 – Installation cycle 1 (wandering around the sound space areas)
16:30 - 16:50 - Installation cycle 2 (wandering around the sound space areas)
16:50 - 17:10 - Performance 2
17:10 - 17:20 - Reprise of cycle 2 (wandering around the sound space areas)
17:20 - 17:50 - Installation Cycle 3 (wandering around the sound space areas)
17:50 - 18:30 - Performance 3
AUDIENCE GUIDELINES
You are invited to interact with the installation, get your feet wet, vocalize and move with us. You may stay as long as you like between 15:00 and 18:30. One of the areas contains loud sound, we recommend bringing earplugs.
DO NOT TOUCH THE PLANTS!!!!!
CREDITS
creator, writer, performer, direction and costume styling: Sall Lam Toro
co-development, performer, sound composition and engineering: Amalia Lukacks
sound composition: Auria Paz
scenography: Alex (CKC)
sound work support and scenography support: 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