We explore performance protocols based on choreographic self-aesthetics that inform us of localized intersections within queerness and transness, multitudes of body, the poetic and erotic and spiritual.
Residency at Indre By Kulturhus
The community-based artistic project centres a framework for exploring the aesthetics of racialized queerness/transness within multitudes of being, that is, producing live and video performance protocols.
In these, we invite bodies to engage in a process of choreographic attunement in which the body engages with the poetic and the sensuous, creating its own personal aesthetics from repetitive impulses. These impulses are previously localized and situated within the search for the limbo of the dissident, racialized queer body within the everyday body. Such become consciously activated through repetitive and continuous movement, tics, gestures of self-affection or modes of (un)safety within the body and even expanded or modified through extensions (technological or surgical) resulting in repertoires of self-presenting and carrying oneself.
OXUM: Sall Lam Toro & Jupiter Child
OXUM is a new multimedia arts collective that functions as a manifestation of a wish to create a queer bipoc collective that focuses on exploring deep, tabooesque, ancestral and spiritual themes within artistic interdisciplinarity that expresses itself through acoustic, visual and corporeal works of art.
Jupiter Child is a Mozambican-born performing artist based in Denmark. Their artistic practice explores themes of migration, identity and cultural integration with a particular focus on decolonial perspectives and personal narratives. Through both visual and performance art, Jupiter Child uses their experiences to create immersive, thought-provoking works that highlight the intersections between language, belonging and self-expression.
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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.
With Pop Up Residency, HAUT wants to experiment with the framework for artistic residencies. For the first time, groups of artists will work side by side, opening up the possibility for artistic synergy to arise from these encounters.
HAUT Pop Up Residency is a residency format that gives artists the opportunity to immerse themselves in their artistic process by providing a salary and materials budget, as well as facilitating internal work sharing and feedback discussions with a sparring partner of their choice. The artistic study "DIS' BODY: Poetics of Self-Aesthetics" by OXUM: Sall Lam Toro & Jupiter Child has been invited to be part of HAUT Pop Up Residency by HAUTs artistic director Naja Lee Jensen. HAUT Pop Up Residency was created in collaboration with the Development Platform for Performing Arts and DIT:KBH and is supported by the Bikuben Foundation.