BIO
(1990) Body_hacker (aka Sall Lam Toro) was born in Portugal and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, working with immersive multimedia performance art, orchestrating sensuous meetings, entanglements and rituals between the human and non-human.
They do so within the context of unnumbing and hacking bodies from everyday violent structures of modern capitalism and legacies of coloniality. This looks like involving the erotic, or, the sensuous (in an Audre Lorde type of way) as a way to confront alienation and illusions of separation in the modern living world between humans and non-humans. They also engage in community organizing around queer care work and autonomous living, and live and work collectively as part of queer housing and art collectives.
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
03.09.2019.2021 MA Culture, Communication and Globalization - Specialization in Gender Studies, Aalborg University (incomplete)
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
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”
22.03.2024 What is a version of you that hasn’t survived? Interactive site-specific performance walk with Maryam Hashempour for post-screening of film documentary Little Amal at Cph:DOX film festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
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 by Danshallerne for Close Encounters Embodied Journeys Festival and Ariel 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 GAIA live performance piece for exhibition opening of Teis Wendt at Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg, DK // 10.11.2019 Diskurs Festival, Giessen, Germany
21.09.2019 BODY Q CORPOREAL video and live performance at Rendez-Vous Video art and performance festival at Øst for Paradis in Aarhus (DK).
Artistic Caretaking
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