SALL LAM TORO CV

Antidisciplinary multimedia performance artist born in Braganza, Portugal in 1990, based in Copenhagen, Denmark

BIO

Sall is a black trans queer unbinary antidisciplinary multimedia  performance artist and organizer based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and, born and raised in Portugal to immigrant parents from Guiné-Bissau. They work with the mediums of performance, movement, sound, textual and visual art. Their work relates to claiming the ecoerotic as a way into decolonizing body(ies) while finding strategies to create more accessibility to multiple, non-linear, poetic universes of the sensual through equally disruptive, emotional and dissident forms.

Their pieces strive to break with/interrupt the consequences of coloniality-based inherited violence and oppression in the becoming of the body through rituals, economies of care and the senses while establishing intentional relationships with grief and death. 

Their interactive and collaborative visual works indulge within meta-universes of meaning, body and spirit erupting shifting transcendental states within the body of the viewer/participant attempting to defy capitalist modes of operating and sensing.

They are part of (Co)Opulence, and Humus Collectives working mainly in Denmark and Scandinavia.

EDUCATION

28.08.2023 - 06.08.2025 Admitted at MA Performing Arts: Critical Approaches at the Malmo Theatre Arts Academy at Lund University (SE)

07.2021 Butoh Dance Theatre 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

2019-2020 Uncompleted MA in Culture, Communication and Globalisation specialisation in Gender Studies at Aalborg University

01.09.2014 – 30.07.2018 Bachelor Language & International Studies, English, Aalborg University (DK).

2009 – 2010 University Diploma of French Studies La Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III University, Paris, France

VISUAL ART EXHIBITIONS

31.05-18.06.23, 16.06-16.07.23 OBSIDIAN DREAM LOVE LETTERS VOL II & III video art installation with sculptures and visuals at Ariel Feminisms as part of Fear and Fauna group exhibition and at Sharp Projects curated by Ilethia Sharp (in order), Copenhagen, Denmark.

PERFORMANCE EXHIBITIONS

14-15.03.2024 OBSIDIANA, ESTRANHA, EROTICA E ULTRAVIOLETA live performance piece curated by Warehouse9 for IPAF ‘managing discomfort’ program with toaster cph and live art Denmark at Huset Teater, Copenhagen, Denmark.

06.06-10.06.2023, 14.06.2023 OBSIDIAN DREAM LOVE LETTERS VOL I AND II multimedia installation performance at Den Frie Udstillingsted Bygning produced by Danshallerne for Close Encounters Embodied Journeys Festival and Ariel Feminisms as part of Fear and Fauna group exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark.

01.12.2022 WE ARE SO EXHAUSTED THAT WE ARE FANTASISING ABOUT SLEEP multimedia installation performance at ArtHub as final work presentation for residency program for (Co)Opulence Collective (duo with xiri tara noir), Copenhagen, Denmark.

24, 29, 30.09.2022 LET IT POUR, LET IT RAIN multimedia live performance piece as part of Co.Opulence Collective with xiri tara noir, mini tour at queer festivals Open Out and Queer Stockolm Fest, performed at Tromsø Norway and Stockolm Sweden and developed as part of ArtHub residency at Copenhagen, Denmark.

25.08-28.08.22 It doesn’t look like anything to me live performance work of Jules Fischer and Josephine Opsahl with performers Jupiter Child, Andreas Haglund, and Beck Heiberg and myself; curated by Irene Campolmi for Enter Art Fair.

19.01.2022 SE NOURRIR, L’ESPRIT site-specific live performance piece in collaboration with choreographer Mbaye Art for Jupiter Child visual and performance artist solo exhibition at Lokale 27, “DECOLONIZING TEXTILES”, Copenhagen (DK).

29.06.2021-19.11.21 CURRENT/STRØMME part of KORA program of Danshallerne (centre for dance and choreography) as co-choreographer and performer with Jonathan Bonici in both Zealand and Jylland regions (DK).

16-28.10.2021 Part of NU RISING Collective Arts Residency Exhibition at Bardo House, Cairo, Egypt

06-10.10.21 Part of WATER IN HEATWAVE piece by Miles Greenberg durational performance, Boca Bienal, Lisbon, Portugal

20.08.2021 DYSPHORIC// DIASPORIC SEAS, performance opening of journal release of Sorthed curated by Nina Cramer and Emil Elg and Anna Vestergaard at Dzidra Dzidra art space, Copenhagen (DK).

31.08.2020 Part of 8:10 (THE EMBRACE) piece by Miles Greenberg durational performance, enter Art Fair, Copenhagen (DK).

15.02.2020 BUREAUCRATIC EROS // ALAS POETIC EROS interactive durational performance as part of PERFORMANCE PROTOCOLS curated by Tina Madsen,at the Nordic Session, Aalborg (DK).

15.12.2019 THE TO-PO-GRA-.PHY OF THE BODY // ZEROTH GENDER multimedia performance at Spanien 19 C collaboration with Malgorzata Zurada, Aarhus (DK).

13.12.2019 3 BY 3 - Multimedia art exhibition with Alba Liv and Kiss Lavin, curated by Nushan Roshani, Jupiter Art Space, Aarhus, DK // 30.04.2019-02.05.2019 at Art Room, 1000fryd, Aalborg (DK).

26.11.2018 TRIBUTE TO NEZAKET EKICI "Emotion in motion (2001)": Externalizing (self) Love – live art piece for PERFORMANCERUM, at Rum46 Aarhus (DK).

CONCERT-MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCES

03.09.2022 ORKESTRA KALUNGA (2022) as Oxum Collective, live sound art performance with Teta Marie Carangi and Jupiter Child at Gammel Strand Kunstmuseum curated by Xenia Brown, supported by Statens Kunstfond (Danish Arts Foundation) Copenhagen, Denmark.

27.08.2022 DECAY OF BIRTH (2022) as Oxum Collective with Kiss Lavin as part of ummphff label showcase with Simin Ramezanali and Xenia Xamanek at Alter Festival, Aarhus, Denmark

07.07-10.07.2022 QUEER MAGICK INTERVENTION, part of Vala Foytin and Wojtek Blecharz multimedia performance and sound installation at muzikinstallationen festival, curated by Laure Hiendl and Bastian Zimmermann, Nürnberg, Germany

16.09.2021 CANTOS A OSHUN: IN THE LONGING FOR THE EROTIC, multimedia performance piece curated by Interconnected Realities at Åben Dans, Roskilde (DK).

28.08.2020 3 BY 3 Concert-Performance Installation with Sall Lam Toro, Alba Liv and Cistina Lavin at Click Festival, Helsingor (DK).

25.07.2020 SALL & THE GHOSTS, Concert with Sall Lam Toro, Alba Liv and Cistina Lavin at Alice Concert Hall, Copenhagen (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

PERFORMANCES SHOWN AT FESTIVALS

19.10.2019 DISTORTING, DECONSTRUCTING AND QUEERING DREAMS 2-channel live streaming live performance, multi-spatial, collaboration with Tina Madsen, Art Festival Fertilizer, Aalborg // 31.08.2019 at Performance Festival, at Spanien 19C, Aarhus, DK,

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).

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

GUEST LECTURES & TALKS

03.03.2023 Performance-ritual Lecture “Anxiety Soup part of Opening seminar of the research project “OIKOS. A Cultural Analysis of Care and Crisis in the 21st Century at the Copenhagen University

19.04.2023 Joint artist talk “Time for Rest and Collective Care” with Cecilia Germain moderated by Mai Takawira at ArtHub Copenhagen

02.12.2021 Joint artist talk with Marie Lydie Nokouda & Mai Takawira as moderator at Overgaden Art Institute on “Centring the Black Body on Stage” curated by the Union for BIPOC Culture Workers, Copenhagen (DK).

19.09.2018 Participation at the Panel: Banned: Otherness as Aesthetic with the video art piece Ungendered Body at AROS Modern Art Museum, Aarhus (DK).

11.07.2018 Artist Talk for Body Corporeal Manifesto performance work at Domie, Poznan, Poland.

23.03.2018 Lecture Performance of Self Fact: how does my body remember sexual memories - at USE ACADEMY in Aarhus (DK) as part of my contribution to the project Sex in Situ developed by Jakob Højgaard, Martyna Miller and Olga Syzymula.

WORKSHOPS

15-16.04.2023 + 30.09.-01.10.2023 BODY TONGUES I and BODY TONGUES II:TRANS RAGE co-led with Eli Ståhl for trans and non binary bodies, Huset + Buens Bookstore in Aalborg, DK.

19.12.2021 AI DAYS TALKING CHOIR co-led participatory project with Laurie Anderson curated by Click Festival and Teater Grob, Helsingør (DK).

22.03.2021 DECOLONIAL THINKING & BODY POLITICS co-led with Zylvester Rodriguez between Transaktion and Crossing Borders curated by Gabriela Kaplan, Copenhagen (DK).

PUBLICATIONS

19.10.21 Publication at ABHIVYAKTI magazine curated by Melanie Kitti and Prya Bains, Oslo (NO) and Copenhagen (DK).

20.08.2021 - Publication at the Forum for Kunsthistorisk Debat Journal Periskop, 25th edition: “Sorted”, co-edited by Nina Cramer, Emil Elg and Anna Vestergaard, Copenhagen, DK

01.02.2019 – Publication at Magazyn RTV, “Body Corporeal(ities) and the Polish Context”, Poland

01.02.2019 – Publication at ARTICULATE Magazine regarding my work: SALL LAM TORO AND THE BODY AS A TOOL FOR TRANSFORMATION OF SPACES, Aarhus (DK).

RESIDENCIES

06-09.12.23 Micro residency with artist talk at Lim Collective with the on going research Body Tongues: Techno_Rage

01.09.22-31.12.22 Residency at Art Hub Copenhagen as part of (Co)Opulence duo with xiri tara noir

17.10.21-31.10.21 NuRising Arts Residency at Bardo House, Cairo, Egypt

26.04.21-30.04.21 Residency at HAUT Scene, Copenhagen, DK

19.06.2020 Residency at Gender House, AROS Museum of Contemporary Art , Aarhus, DK

29.07.2019-05.08.2019 Mechanics of Conformity, Rihimaki, Finland

06.07.2018-12.07.2018 Domie art Space, Poznan, Poland