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IPAF & Managing Discomfort presents: OBSIDIANA, ESTRANHA, ERÓTICA E ULTRAVIOLETA by Sall Lam Toro
Live performance rework from Obsidian Dream Love Letters series (2023)
The live performance piece “obsidiana, estranha, erótica e ultravioleta” (2024) is a rework of the multimedia installation performance Obsidian Dream Love Letters series (2023) universe of surrealist ecoerotic poetics of queer blackness, archiving and rituals situated in multi-cosmologies of space. The previous version was developed for Close Encounters: Embodied Journeys festival co-produced by Danshallerne and Den Frie Udstillingsted Bygning and curated by Julienne Doko last year. And the multimedia installation was also shown at Fear and Fauna group exhibition curated by Ariel Feminisms ending with another performance version as well at the finissage. Drawing upon a love letter to black ecoerotic consciousness built upon universes of phantasmagoria, the space is inhabited by sculptures, light and soil companions. The piece materializes manifestos of atemporal and multidimensional fugitivity with the support of sensuous rituals channeled by the presence of obsidian and rose quartz raw living bodies within the sculptures and soil trails.
In this rework without video nor mapped visuals, the scenographic space shifts into a green, ultraviolet light glitch, concentrated immersing space with an assemblage of two poles and sculptures-podium of obsidian and rose quartz leveled onto them. The performers not only move backwards in different positions grounded on the floor in possession-like modes as the previous version, but also lift their own bodies up supported by the pole moving upside down in twists and distorted body positions. This version contrasts with the previous ones offering a heightened physicality of the performative with an abundant hypererotic descent into the sensuous vibrational frequencies of obsidian and rose quartz.
Notes for audience
TBA
Double Bill: This performance is a DOUBLE BILL showing with Martin O’Brien. 1 ticket = access to 2 performances.
Language
Non-Verbal
Access
Husets Teater does not have level free access and is not equipped with stairlifts, and is therefore not accessible for wheelchair users. We recognise that this is not good enough.
Credits
Concept, development, artistic direction, performance, & choreography: Sall Lam Toro
Co-development, co-performance, & co-choreography: Suziethecockroach
Choreography consultant & assistance: Tabatha Araujo
Sound composition: Warren Jones
Sound remixing: Suziethecockroach
Sculpture work: Sall Lam Toro
Scenography and light design: Bella Jensen
Costume design: Serena Coelho
Additional re-styling: Sall Lam Toro and Suziethecockroach
About the artists:
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.
OBSIDIANA, ESTRANHA, ERÓTICA E ULTRAVIOLETA is co-presented with TOASTER and Live Art DK and also a part of their Managing Discomfort Performance Festival.
OBSIDIANA, ESTRANHA, ERÓTICA E ULTRAVIOLETA is part of IPAF: an international festival for contemporary performance presenting artists from different cultural contexts, whose work engages identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations, facilitated by Warehouse9.
The festival is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, the City of Copenhagen and Bispebjerg Lokaludvalg.
Jasmin has a master’s degree in English and cultural communications from the University of Copenhagen and has worked with several fields within the cultural sphere. She has worked with executing and communicating films, festivals, art fairs, and literature, and has now embarked upon queer performance art at Warehouse9.
Emma (they/she) has been a core member since 2012 and a leading effort in driving organisational development. They have helped shape WH9’s artistic profile, initiated national and international collaborations and consolidated WH9 through fundraising strategies, and insisting on production methods centering care and accessiblility.
In addition, Emma works as an independent curator, e.g. through the curatorial duo osborn&møller, where they have acted as guest curator at the Wellcome Collection (UK) and curated part of City of Women’s 25 year anniversary festival in 2019 (SL). Emma has experience as a freelance producer in the UK, where they worked with artists such as Poppy Jackson, Manuel Vason and SPILL Festival. Emma holds a MA in Theater and Performance from Queen Mary, University of London and a BA (Hons) in Drama, Applied Theatre & Education from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Jørgen Callesen (They/He) is co-founder and co-director of Warehouse9.
For the past 17 years, they have been an integral part of developing Warehouse9 to become a leading organisation for cross-aesthetic queer art, including international festivals and socially engaged projects. He holds a Ph.D. in information & media science from Aarhus University (2005) and has an artistic practice with the performance figure “miss fish”. They have presented solo work in Denmark and internationally since 2002 and work in collaboration with numerous queer artists as well as in lager scale productions.