credit: photo documentation of "A Procession to Nirvana: A Funeral for Your Thoughts" (2025)

photo by by Malle Madsen, and courtesy Heirloom and Bluestockings (bs)

We begin the spring season with artist Body_hacker (aka Sall Lam Toro), who will be in residence at Black Archives Sweden (BAS) from 2–8 February.
Black Archives Sweden’s residency program is an opening gesture toward imagining the archive as a living laboratory—experimental, alive, and shaped by the people who move through it. At the center of this work is our growing reference library, envisioned not as a fixed collection but as a living ecosystem. Residents are invited to contribute practices, materials, and methods that expand what the archive can become. Grounded in Black critical thought, the residency prioritizes dialogue, research, process, rest, and collective imagination over the production of finished works.

During their time at BAS, Body_hacker will dive into a non-existent archive of untold, fictive, and real stories of plant companionship and magic, guided by the question: How could such an archive arise? This inquiry unfolds through encounters that reveal or conceal—through writing, gestures of deep listening, and moments that spark subtle undercurrents. Body_hacker explores the relational potential between humans and plants, uncovering histories of collaboration and care (and more-than-human kinships), while asking what other(ed) contexts might emerge from these entanglements and forms of cosmological intimacy.
Join us on Saturday, 7 February, 2–4 pm, for an artist presentation in which Body_hacker shares their practice, research, and minor unravelings encountered during the residency.

written by BAS team

for updates check https://www.blackarchivessweden.com/events/