COLLECTIVE READING WITH SALL LAM TORO #1
Care for reading about caring for artists? Explore how we can all care more for access needs, bids for care, and boundaries in artist care work.
9.4.26
9.4.26
15:00 - 17:00
Thoravej 29, Biblioteket
Participation in the event is FREE, but please reserve a ticket as seats are limited.
Accessibility
The library is located on the first floor. There are elevators at both ends, and we use the elevator next to the Room Room exhibition space on the ground floor. A key card is required to use the elevators, and our staff is available to assist you. Wheelchair-accessible toilets are located on the ground floor, which again requires the use of an elevator—with assistance from HAUT staff.
We can rent a hearing loop for participants with hearing impairments. Sign language interpreters are also available for the event.
Please contact us directly at phyllis@hautscene.dk if you need a hearing loop or sign language interpreter, preferably well in advance.
Before the event, we will send out a glossary translated from English to Danish, containing key terms used in the reading material. We will also have a staff member present who can simultaneously translate from English to Danish.
There is overhead lighting that can be dimmed. The room is not private, but is screened off with glass. The event will be held after working hours, so there will be limited other activity while we are in session. There are sofas, large floor cushions, and blankets available. We will provide breaks and light refreshments during the event. Participants are welcome to move around the room and/or withdraw as needed.
About the event
Join Collective Reading with multimedia performance artist body_hacker / Sall Lam Toro.
As part of HAUT’s facilitation of soft and generous residencies, we have previously studied artist care and Care Riders with body_hacker / SALL LAM TORO and credit them with developing a Care Rider Template, which we now use to invite all our visiting artists to elaborate upon their access needs, bids for care, and boundaries, while in residency.
Over two evenings, Sall invites us into a space of slowing down and contemplation. We will listen to audio material and meditate, read, reflect and dive together into passages from books that underpin their Care Rider Template: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha’s Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. You are not required to have read the texts before, as you will be reading excerpts from the books together, collectively.
In each session, Sall will zoom in on embodied aspects of race, gender, sexuality, class, economy and ability and how these affect the ways we navigate the art and culture field while working under racial capitalism and patriarchy. Each evening is mainly focused on reading but there will be an expansion of the material through listening to audio as well as a space for discussion and guided contemplative-somatic exercises.
THE FORMAT
Collective Reading makes space for experiments with how we read, together.
This event series invite an artist or teacher to open up and play with the way we read: What happens when we read collectively, embodied or guided? Is it possible to find another way to read and engage with texts than we have previously done?
About the texts for COLLECTIVE READING WITH SALL LAM TORO
CARE WORK: DREAMING DISABILITY JUSTICE is written by longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. The essays explore the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all.
HEALTH COMMUNISM is written by longtime disability justice and healthcare activists Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. The book examines how capital has instrumentalized health, disability, madness, and illness to create a so-called “surplus” class, which is regarded as a fiscal and social burden to society. The book argues that the value of human life cannot be based on one’s willingness or ability to be productive within capitalism.
Body_hacker (alias Sall Lam Toro)
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.
